from the publisher

october 21, 2001     

Dear readers,

A couple of blocks from my home in San Francisco, in sidewalk chalk—next to an outdated call for the Dyke March in Dolores Park, a plea for no more prisons, and expressions of Tony's love—someone scrawled, "Be a flâneur."

This week, OtP wanders through the Sixties in a conversation with Jim Fadiman about his recent novel and a time when there was an "enormous awareness of the people in front of you." Samantha Schoech takes us to the suburbs with a woman in pursuit of affection in her short story, Why You Shouldn't Have Gone in the First Place. Poet Joyce Odam reveals a bit of country landscape in a game of Hide and Seek. Lastly, you can catch the end of the conflict between Benjamin and the garbage collector, in Benjamin, Hatless.

happy strolling,

nada

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