Willow Springs 68

Issue 68 of Willow Springs features poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Jill Christman, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, and Nance Van Winckel. In an interview, Richard Russo talks about working on a set with Paul Newman and the relationship between humor and suffering in fiction: “Most of the time, if you think about them in adjacent rooms, the door adjoining suffering and humor is very often wide open, but as we get closer and closer to suffering, the doorway gets smaller and smaller, because you just can’t stand it otherwise.”