Volume Two #3 & 4
Special Double Issue/Last Issue
April 2003

Robert Olen Butler Tribute Section

"Mother in the Trenches" -- Robert Olen Butler
"Religion Builds Character: Some Uses of Folk and Religious Love in Robert Olen Butler's The Deuce" -- Ralph S. Carlson
"Long Ago in Mexico: Or, How I Almost Met Robert Olen Butler" -- David Vancil
"Speaking Like a Vietnamese: Robert Olen Butler's Short Stories" -- Janis Haswell
"They Whisper in the Alleys of Eden: Mythic Sensuality in Robert Olen Butler's Vietnam" -- Dale Ritterbusch
"Can a White Man Write in the Voice of a Vietnamese Woman?: The Depiction of Vietnamese Expatriates by Lan Cao and Robert Olen Butler" -- Mary Sue Ply
"Robert Olen Butler's 'A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain' as Parable of Socio-Political Harmony" -- Ralph S. Carlson
"The Evolution of an Artist: An Interview with Robert Olen Butler" -- Mary Sue Ply

Fiction

"Angels in Repose" -- D. S. Litteras
"A Path to Shine After" -- James Post
"Dink-Speak" -- Michael S. Casey
"First Light" -- Walter Jones
"Embrace Tiger" -- Dawn Bailiff
"In Kosciusko's Garden" -- Davida E. Kellogg
"Cooties" -- Davida E. Kellogg
"A Small Madness at Sea: -- Jeff Manthos
"Romantic Settings" -- Jeff Manthos
"Malcolm's T-Shirt" -- Jeff Manthos
"Elephant Dreams" -- Jeff Manthos
"Guard Duty" -- Edward M. Uehling

Non-Fiction

"The Fiction Behind the Fiction: Lederer, Burdick, and the Composition of The Ugly American" -- Edward Palm
"Inventing Facts and Remembering Fiction: Tim O'Brien's Literary Reconciliations" -- Brian McNerney
"The Quail Were Talking About Vietnam: Raymond Carver's Short Stories and War" -- David A. Willson
"The Sanest Man in Vietnam" -- David Vancil

Reviews/Interviews

"Bring the War Home!" -- Walter Jones
"A Bad Attitude" -- David A. Willson

Poetry

"Dogtags"
"Ghost Patrol"
"Returning Home"
-- Preston H. Hood III

"Tomahawk Chop"
"B.M.O.C. Wannabe"
"B.U.M.M.E.R. Gloater Soliloquoy"
"Swim Call"
-- Michael S. Casey

"The Uses of W" -- Chris Gompert

"The Bride and Groom"
"The Monsoon Season"
"Solemnly Swearing"
"At a Field Hospital in Vietnam, 1969"
"When the Jets First Won the Superbowl"
-- John Bower

"Flashback"
"Pulpwood"
"Another Word for Orange"
-- David Vancil