Michelle Herman; Media Credit: Dennis Hearne

Highlights from the October 2003 issue

The second issue of the Gingko Tree Review was released October 29, 2003.

Nicholson Baker
Featured in an interview by Peter Meidlinger.

Nicholson Baker is the author of five novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and, most recently, A Box of Matches. He has written three works of nonfiction, among them U and I and Double Fold.

Charles Baxter
Featured in an interview by Patrick Moser.

Charles Baxter is the author of four short story collections (Harmony of the World, Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, Believers), four novels (Shadow Play, First Light, The Feast of Love and Saul and Patsy), a book of poetry (Imaginary Paintings), and a book of essays on fiction (Burning Down the House).

Michelle Herman
Featured work: Dog, fiction

Michelle Herman's most recent book is a collection of novellas, A New and Glorious Life. Her first nonfiction book, The Middle of Everything, will be out from the University of Nebraska's American Lives Series in January, 2005. She is the co-editor of Ohio State University's literary magazine, The Journal.

Rick Moody
Featured work: Song Composed Before an Imaginary Saucer of Milk, poetry

Rick Moody has published three novels (Garden State, The Ice Storm and Purple America), two short-story collections (The Ring of the Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology), and a book of nonfiction (The Black Veil).

Arthur Saltzman
Featured work: Waiting for Takeoff, essay

Arthur Saltzman is the author of This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction, Understanding Nicholson Baker, The Novel in the Balance, Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction, Understanding Raymond Carver and The Fiction of William Gass: The Consolation of Language. His most recent collection of essays is entitled Objects and Empathy.