Maps: Spring '11
Fiction
humboldt waterfronts
by d. • 05.30.2011i ask my mother how you accumulate losses with aging and don't fail of heart. how do you just keep losing life and yet remain engaged with living? she says the problem is with america. more »
Poetry
"Landscape Architecture" and two more poems
by Moriah L. Purdy • 05.23.2011Three poems with roots in the writings of Frederick Law Olmsted more »
Features
World of the Map
by Llalan Fowler • 05.16.2011I learned the shape of our world from a map pulled down out of its cocoon above the chalkboard. It was a rainbow burst of color, each country with its own. This map also outlined each US state. As a six year old, this did not strike me as... more »
Nonfiction
My Expanding Map
by Jayme Russell • 05.09.2011I had just turned ten. The first day back from our summer break, our PE teacher asked us where we had vacationed. While waiting to be called on, I was holding the name Wayne National Forest in my mind and getting nervous about telling the class we... more »
Features
Denis Wood: The Power of Maps
by Tim Stallmann • 05.02.2011Cartographer Denis Wood talks with Tim Stallmann about making maps and about his new book, Everything Sings more »
Features
Places That Verb Your World
by Fringe Magazine • 04.25.2011We asked the Fringe armada about meaningful places, and mapped their responses -- from Batman's real-life dwelling to the hills of the Ozarks. more »
Fiction
Body/Paragraph [NSFW: graphic images]
by Franny Choi • 04.18.2011They sat, waiting, wondering what Julie looked like and what they were doing sitting in a car in cheap disguises, waiting to steal a little girl they’d never seen and sell her back to her parents, most likely for much more than she was worth. more »
Vintage Fringe
Notes from a Man Trapped in a Giant Bottle
by Mark Brinker • 04.10.2011Mark Brinker strands his characters inside a bottle in this vintage fiction piece from issue 17. more »
Features
Peter Mountford: A Young Man's Guide To Greed and Good Intentions
by Reese Okyong Kwon, Peter Mountford • 04.04.2011A think-tank fellow turned novelist makes economics exciting in his first novel, and talks moral maps, overseas love, and literary heroes with Fringe. more »
(de)Classified
The Tamiami Trail (Mix): U.S. Route 41, Miami to Michigan
by Neil de la Flor, Maureen Seaton • 03.28.2011I. Two alligators pass each other and flash a secret greeting, like bikers. They stop for gas in Big Cypress Swamp. The woman who owns the station dishes about the best location to spot a... more »
Poetry
"We're always in a room." and two more poems
by Sarah Sarai • 03.21.2011"A Bullish Run into Chambers", "A Territory of the Miracle," and "We're always in a room." more »
Features
Saskia Jordá: Cartographer of Memory
by Saskia Jordá, Heather MacNeill Falconer • 03.14.2011Venezuelan installation artist Sakia Jordá talks about the connection between place and space, how writer Italo Calvino inspired her, and why indifference is the worst response to her work. more »
Nonfiction
The Wind
by Gary Presley • 03.07.2011The wind in this place is still new to me, even after a year, a thing both understood and surprising. I first began to notice it because the room in which I write looks to the east, and there is a point in that direction where the land slopes... more »
