Narrative Magazine Fall Issue 2007

The Narrative Magazine Collection includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by W.H. Auden, Donald Hall, Jim Harrison, Gail Godwin, Ted Kooser, and important new up-and-coming authors. It's an ideal holiday gift for friends and family who love reading, and who want to discover the hottest literary magazine today.

NarrativeMagazine.com is edited by Tom Jenks, who also edited Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published, bestselling novel, The Garden of Eden, and co-edited with Raymond Carver the bestselling anthology American Short Story Masterpieces. With his NarrativeMagazine.com coeditor, the bestselling author Carol Edgarian, Tom Jenks has brought together two of the best literary collections of 2007.

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About the Editors:

TOM JENKS
Tom Jenks's articles, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times, Conde Nast's Traveler, Manhattan, Inc., Missouri Review, Columbia, Reasons to Believe (St. Martin's Press). The Encyclopedia of Literary Biography, and elsewhere.

He edits Narrative magazine and is a former fiction editor of Esquire, advisory editor of The Paris Review, senior editor at Scribner's, and literary editor of Gentlemen's Quarterly.

He has given classes at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Creative Writing Programs at University of California (Irvine and Davis), Washington University in St. Louis, the Squaw Valley and Bennington Summer Writing Workshops and, privately, in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

CAROL EDGARIAN
Carol Edgarian's novel Rise the Euphrates (Random House) was hailed by the Washington Post as "a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity, and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today: daring, heartbreaking, and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives."

Ms. Edgarian edits Narrative magazine. She is co-editor (with Tom Jenks) of The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers (Vintage Books).

She has written articles and essays for Vogue, Allure, and Travel & Leisure, among others. Her work is available in translation and in a number of anthologies. Rise the Euphrates received the 1994 ANC Freedom Award and was nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Best Fiction Prize. She is at work on a new novel and teaches privately in San Francisco.