The Fall 1997 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Mary Gordon. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Mary Gordon
EDITOR PROFILE
Don Lee
FICTION
"The Visit," by Alice Adams
"The Agenda of Love," by E. M. Broner
"Mr. Sweetly Indecent," by Bliss Broyard
"A Day in the Future," by Susan Daitch
"Resistance," by Tim Gautreaux
"The Bill Collector's Vacation," by Patricia Hampl
"The Dream of Anonymous Hands," by Ethan Hauser
"Police Chief's Daughter," by Lucy Honig
"Votive: Vision," by Carole Maso
"The Wake," by Joyce Carol Oates
"Permanent," by Richard Panek
"The Tent in the Wind," by David Plante
"My Best Friend," by Helen Schulman
"Flower Children," by Maxine Swann
"Goodbye, Tinker Bell, Hello, God," by Eileen Tobin
"from What Mattered We Left Out," by Nola Tully
"Tea at the House," by Meg Wolitzer
POSTSCRIPTS
Cohen Award Winners Andrew Sean Greer and Campbell McGrath
