My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

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"I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska."

From My Ántonia, a novel by Willa Cather (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918).

Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II)

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

A short story, a collection of short stories, and a novel

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"Killer," a short story by Len Kuntz, Silent Things (November 2, 2012).

Runaway, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro (Vintage, 2004).

The Stone Diaries, a novel by Carol Shields (Penguin, 1993).

Four poems and a short story

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"Where Voices Come From," a poem by Ted Meyer, Linebreak (August 30, 2012).

"Snow Day," a poem by Lauren Camp, Linebreak (October 16, 2012).

"White Night," a poem by Paulina Mazur, Extract(s) (June 12, 2012).

"Last Poem," a poem by Simon Armitage, Plume (Issue 14).

"The Killers," a short story by Kevin Tosca, fleeting (May 31, 2012).

The Fall 2012 issue of the Apple Valley Review

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The Fall 2012 issue of the journal features fiction by Thomas Andrew Green; essays by J. Malcolm Garcia and David MacWilliams; poetry by Arthur Powers, Donna Vorreyer, Ihor Pavlyuk (translated from the Ukrainian by Steve Komarnyckyj), Grant Clauser, Joanna Kurowska, Renee Emerson, Anna Evans, and Susan Ludvigson; and photography by Elle Moss.

The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete submission guidelines are available at www.applevalleyreview.com.

Wendy and the Lost Boys

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Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, a biography by Julie Salamon (Penguin Press, 2011).

A novel, a short film, and a short story

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The Ruins of Us, a novel by Keija Parssinen (Harper Perennial, 2012).

"West of the Moon," a short film by Brent Bonacorso (2010).

"Lip Gloss," a short story by Bryan Shawn Wang, The Citron Review (Spring 2012).

The Hunger Games trilogy and two stories from BASS

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The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, novels by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively). Not that the books in this trilogy need any additional publicity, but they are remarkable.

"The Ambush," a short story by Donna Tartt, first published in Tin House (Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 2005/2006) and reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett and series editor Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 30-42).

"So Much for Artemis," a short story by Patrick Ryan, first published in One Story (No. 53, March 10, 2005) and reprinted in Send Me by Patrick Ryan (Dial, 2006) and in The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett and series editor Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 70-90).

The Spring 2012 issue of the Apple Valley Review (Vol. 7, No. 1)

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The Spring 2012 issue of the journal features fiction by Iheoma Nwachukwu and Lisa Robertson; an essay by Gail Peck; prose poetry by Theresa Williams; poetry by Nabin Kumar Chhetri, Susan Johnson, Lyn Lifshin, Do-hyeon Ahn (translated from the Korean by Ian Haight and Ji-young Lee), Martha Christina, Bernard Henrie, Adam Penna, and Rich Ives; and artwork by Michelle Basic Hendry.

The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete submission guidelines are available at www.applevalleyreview.com.

A poem by Sierra DeMulder, a short story by Maile Meloy, & a handful of other pieces

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"The Perm," a poem by Sierra DeMulder, Used Furniture Review (January 9, 2012).

"My Particular Tumor," a short story by Josh Denslow, Wigleaf (January 22, 2012).

"Agustín," a short story by Maile Meloy, Ploughshares (Spring 2008), reprinted in her collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books, 2009, pp. 169-189).

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, a memoir by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins, 2004) about her relationship with Lucy Grealy, the author of the memoir Autobiography of a Face (HarperCollins, 2003).

"Wolverine Way," a short story by Ryan Ragan, 971 MENU (December 2011).

"To the Long-Distance Caller Who Keeps Hanging Up," a poem by Jeff Worley, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, reprinted in his collection The Only Time There Is (Mid-List Press, 1995, p. 70).

"So Much Happiness," a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words (The Eighth Mountain Press).