I just got around to reading the winter issue of Zoetrope, and it was quite good, especially the lead story “We Were Champions” by April Wilder, which deals with molestation by a softball coach and a metaphor-heavy image of a roasting pig. Beat that!
I do wish that instead of re-printing the Scott Fitzgerald story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which is widely available online), they had printed the prizewinning story from their 2008 contest (Sleepwalkers by Bernie McGill — only available online, not in print), but I suppose that the Fitzgerald story had the film connection, and this is Francis Ford Coppola’s magazine, after all.
Watch out for the Spring 2009 issue — Daniel Alarcon is editing an issue revolving around South American writers.
