Ploughshares Spring 1986 Guest-Edited by Leonard Michaels

The Spring 1986 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Leonard Michaels. 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 FICTION "The Millionaire," by Thomas McGuane "Beautiful," by C. E. Poverman "The Gingko Tree," by Roger Salloch "The Scientific Method," by Robert Cohen "Neighborhood," by Danny Romero "All This," by Rosellen Brown "What Ernest Says," by Sue Miller "Algot's Bird," by Rhoda Huffey "New Dresses," by Mary Ward Brown "Dogs," by Mary Peterson NONFICTION "Study for Sleep," by Frances Lerner "Against Joie de Vivre," by Phillip Lopate Excerpt from The Family Idiot, Gustave Flaubert, by Jean-Paul Sartre & Carol Cosman "Trailed By The Black Dog," by Jeff Hush "The Secret Sharer," by David Reid "Letter to Brenda Hillman," by Louise Gluck "Today and Destiny: The Judgement of Moses Hess," by Oscar Pemantle "Bresh," by Edgar Poma "What's A Story?" by Leonard Michaels POETRY "Scott on Flight 559," by Brenda Hillman "Confession to Mrs. Robert L. Snow," by Gary Soto "The Fourth of July," by August Kleinzahler