• Two Perspectives

    Jon Meacham

    11/2020

    Jon Meacham, a biographer, teaches at Vanderbilt and at The University of the South. He lives in Nashville.

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    On the Sound

    Lydia Conklin

    This story is only available in the print edition of the Sewanee Review.

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    Austen Leah Rosenfeld

    Start with description.
    Talk about the dark of the desert, the way the stars are grooves cut by ice skates.
    Pretend it was November.
    Decide that the wind came from a storm in the sea.
    Imagine your mother was asleep, dreaming about foxes.
    Tell us that a slot machine is just a night-blooming flower.

    Airport

    Nick Paumgarten

    A teammate’s girlfriend, a physical therapist who’d been watching the game, came over and handed me an unopened can of grape soda to hold as a plumb-weight, and then reached up under my pads and worked the shoulder until, after about ten minutes, it popped back into place. The pain retreated. I drank the grape soda and waited for the guys to get off the ice.

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