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Snapshots of Fall 2006 Issue

In his short story "The Finest Writers in the World Today" Tom Williams invents a celebrity look-alike talent agency that expands its offerings to include famous authors. Soon the author impersonators are the hottest selling product in the agency, but the writers are strange. "John Irving always wanted to wrestle, and William Burroughs was just plain creepy."

Poet Renee Ashley, winner of the 2006 Sunken Garden Poetry Award, describes sitting in a "nifty room and a view of the dead who have a view of you."

Essayist Paul Ruffin tells how a child's desire to visit a Memphis zoo, is thwarted by racial segregation; it's a powerful look at denied expectations.

WestConn Professional Writing major and former CSU fiction award winner Marty Collins engages best-selling literary novelist Stewart O'Nan (A World Away, Night Country, Snow Angels, The Good Wife) to provide an unusually detailed, and surprising, look at one writer's process.

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Snapshots of Fall 2006 Issue - Continued

Spanish playwright Francisco Nieva's (translated by Phyllis Zatlin) updates the Red Riding Hood story. Hear little Red explain why she has now fallen hopelessly in love with the wolf.

Last year's winner of the CSU art award, WestConn MFA in art student Rolandas Kiaulevicius, exhibits a range of watercolors, pastels and acrylics that portray memories of his Lithuanian homeland and meditative existential states.

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Trauma is life-changing in terms of loss, love, and, most especially, time. This issue of the Connecticut Review features fiction, poetry, scholarly articles, personal narratives, and an interview that conceive of trauma consistent with Sigmund Freud’s original conception of it in 1895. The pieces in this issue represent trauma both in their content as well as in their form: many, like the histories they detail, present time as non-linear; they echo and repeat significant moments via flashbacks; and they question the ability of language to convey unimaginable events.

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