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ZYZZYVA is a San Francisco journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists working in our backyard—and beyond. Every issue offers the thrill of discovering new voices, and the satisfaction of reading new works by award winning and established authors. Subscribe to enjoy a year of the acclaimed publication that “is consistently one of the most interesting, thought-provoking and daring journals around.”*
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Get the complete set of our 2021 issues plus a special back-issue. Includes Issues No. 120, 121, and 122. Featuring fiction by Juhea Kim, Héctor Tobar, Daniel Mason, Anthony Veasna So, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Robin Romm, Bethany Ball, ‘Pemi Aguda, Dagoberto Gilb, Karen Tei Yamashita, Buku Sarkar, and Shelby Kinney-Lang. Nonfiction by John Markoff, Troy Jollimore, Victoria Redel, Dean Rader, and Marie Mutsuki Mockett. Interviews with Xiaowei Wang, Jonathan Franzen, and translators Julia Sanches and Sophie Lewis. Poetry by William Brewer, Amanda Moore, Sheryl Luna, Dominica Phetteplace, E. Kristin Anderson, Andrew Navarro, C.J.A., and Pablo Medina. Art from Dave McClinton, Melissa Joseph, and Sonny Assu.
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Get the complete set of our 2016 issues. Includes Issues No. 106, 107, and 108. Featuring fiction from Ron Carlson, Amy Tan, Ariel Dorfman, Alan Cheuse, Kathleen Alcott, Lori Ostlund, Fatima Bhutto, Adrienne Celt, Elizabeth Rosner, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Ashley Nelson Levy, Lou Mathews, Mark Chiusano, Ann Cummins, Joshua Mohr, Octavio Solis, Gregory Spatz, Dallas Woodburn, Earle McCartney, Deb Olin Unferth, Mar Colón-Margolies, Scott O’Connor, Eric Severn, Catherine Sustana, Rolf Yngve, and Giuseppe Zucco; and introducing fiction debuts from Etan Nechin, Mick LaSalle, and Ella Martinsen Gorham. Nonfiction work from Andrew D. Cohen, Rivka Galchen, Peter Orner, Brad Wetherell, Glen David Gold, and Rebecca Thomas, as well as a profile of Kay Ryan by John Freeman, and interviews with Tobias Wolff, Geoffrey Wolf, and Susan Griffin. Poetry by Matthew Dickman, Ruth Madievsky, Jeff Ewing, Matthew Zapruder, David Hernandez, Kaveh Akbar, Paul Wilner, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Adam Scheffler, Christopher J. Adamson, Jenny Qi, Mary Cisper, Mallory Imler Powell, Austen Leah Rosenfeld, Judith Skillman, Emily Benton, Abigail Carl-Klassen, Sonia Greenfield, Gary Lark, and Jesse Wallis. Visual art from Jonathon Keats, Stephen Albair, Kota Ezawa, and Annie Galvin. Supplies are limited.
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Get the entire set of three issues from our 30th anniversary year. Featuring fiction from Lydia Millet, Héctor Tobar, Monique Wentzel, Ben Greenman, Robin Romm, Christian Kiefer, Joe Donnelly, Molly Giles, Nick Fuller Googins, Karl Taro Greenfeld, James Warner, Anthony Marra, Patricia Engel, Glen David Gold, April Ayers Lawson, Mauro Javier Cardenas, David L. Ulin, Spencer Seward, Caille Millner, Dagoberto Gilb, Austin Smith, Dominica Phettaplace, Davide Orrechio, Olivia Clare, Kristopher Jansma, Paul Madonna, Heather Monley, Andrew Foley, Patrick Brice & Sammy Harkham, and Henri Lipton; nonfiction from Kyle Boelte, Julie Chinitz, Andrew David King, and Lauren Alwan; poetry from Robert Hass, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Matthew Zapruder, Ruth Madievsky, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Nicole Stellon O'Donnell, Eric D. Parkison, Molly Spencer, Joseph Di Prisco, Sally Ashton, Karen Leona Anderson, Cecelia Hagen, Jennifer Richter, Heather Altfeld, Dan Alter, Jill Osier, Floyd Skloot, Ed Skoog, and Molly Vogel; artwork from Amos Goldbaum, Jonathon Keats, Jay DeFeo, and Paul Madonna. Supplies are limited.
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Get the entire set of three issues, including our special 100th issue. Featuring fiction from Héctor Tobar, Erika Recordon, Daniel Handler, Earle McCartney, Vauhini Vara, Matt Sumell, Elena Mauli Shapiro, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Michelle Latiolais, Paul Madonna, Melissa Yancy, Josh Emmons, Elizabeth Tallent, and Kathleen Alcott; nonfiction from Rebecca Solnit, Jim Gavin, Katie Crouch, Glen David Gold, Jim Krusoe, Jill Logan, Edie Meidav, Laura Esther Wolfson, and David L. Ulin; poetry from Robert Hass, Kay Ryan, Dan Alter, Troy Jollimore, Simone Muench & Dean Rader, Rae Gouirand, Andrew David King, and Austin Smith, plus the artwork of Ana Teresa Fernandez, Jonathon Keats, Julio Cesar Morales, Jane Fulton Alt, and Bill Mattick. Supplies are limited.
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Now you can order the complete set of 2013 issues. Featuring fiction by Lori Ostlund, Herbert Gold, Molly Giles, Peter Mountford, Dani Shapiro, Michelle Latiolais, Eric Puchner, Kirstin Chen, Elizabeth Spencer, Vanessa Hua, Mary Otis, Don Waters, Catherine Brady, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Lisa Teasley, and J. Malcolm Garcia; poetry by Matthew Dickman, Kazim Ali, Wendy Willis, John W. Evans, Heather Altfeld, Dean Rader, Rebecca Foust, Zubair Ahmed, David Biespiel, Allan Peterson, Christian Kiefer, Alexandra Teague, and Floyd Skloot; nonfiction from W.S. Di Piero, Diego Enrique Osorno, Anne Raeff, and Moritz Thomsen; plus artwork from Devri Richmond, Vanessa Marsh, David Maisel, Meghann Riepenhoff, Mike Callaghan, Jeannie O’Connor, Tom Stolmar, Iris Chabari-Berggren, and Marcus Covert. Order the bundle as a treat for yourself, or as an elegant gift. Sold out!
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ZYZZYVA 2012 Bundle
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Get the complete set of 2012 issues, including No.95, which was recognized by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Featuring stories from Tatjana Soli, Peter Orner, Wanda Coleman, Daniel Sada, Jennifer duBois, Ron Carlson, Don Waters, Earle McCartney, and Vanessa Veselka; poetry by W.S. Di Piero (winner of a 2013 Pushcart Prize), Marci Vogel, John Freeman, Wendy Willis, D.A. Powell, Judy Halebsky, Jesse Nathan, Ada Limon, and John W. Evans; nonfiction from Dagoberto Gilb, Edie Meidav, Rick Barot, and Luis Alberto Urrea; also, reportage, essays, and fiction from Mexico on the drug war; a selection of noir writing; and art from Lucas Foglia, Wendy MacNaughton, Chester Arnold, Stephanie Syjuco, Packard Jennings, and Jane Hambleton. Supplies are limited.
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Strange Attraction:
The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA
Features poetry, fiction, scripts, and essays from more than 40 writers, including Francisco X. Alarcón, Sherman Alexie, Kate Braverman, Po Bronson, Dennis Cooper, Peter Coyote, Tess Gallagher, Philip Kan Gotanda, Thom Gunn, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, August Kleinzahler, Philip Levine, Jess Mowry, Gary Snyder, Octavio Solis, Elizabeth Tallent, William Vollman, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others. $20 (338 pages; paperback).
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True Stories from ZYZZYVA
27 autobiographical pieces commemorate ZYZZYVA’s 20th anniversary. Featuring F.X. Toole (on being a cut man in boxing), Brenda Webster (on psychoanalysis as a way of life), Judith Barrington (on life as a “soft butch” lesbian), plus Victor Davis Hanson, Susan Parker, Eve Pell, and many others. $14.95 (272 pages, paperback). Limited supply.
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Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays
by West Coast Writers
“A superb collection” —George Plimpton
“[It] will carry you happily through the insomnias of the night. You will emerge refreshed and smarter than you were the day before. This is a terrific book of essays.” —William Kittredge
More than 30 essays by such writers as Blair Fuller (who recalls an early experiment with LSD), David Harris (on doing time as a war resister), Paula Gunn Allen (who explores her Lebanese heritage in New Mexico), plus Bill Berkson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Soto, David Rains Wallace, Peter Coyote, James D. Houston, and others. $10.95 (286 pages; paperback). Very limited supply!