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Philip Enoch Liljengren
Spring 1995
Philip Enoch Liljengren, my father, came into the world, he liked to say, between verses of the closing hymn. The son of a Covenant pastor, he was born late morning, Sunday, August 13, 1911, in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
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Beyond the Satin Funhouse
Fall 1992
“One balmy spring morning in Hollywood, a month or so before my forty-eighth birthday, I woke up screaming,” writes Dan Wakefield in Returning. Wakefield’s charmed life as a successful novelist, darling of New York literary circles and sought-after screenwriter, seemed headed for a rotten conclusion. He feared his end would come “as one of those bodies in the movies of Hollywood who float face down in their own swimming pool.”
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A Generation in Advent
Spring 1992
Because I could no longer stop the shame-induced grimace from taking over my face, because the electric shriek of my ten-dollar phone brought only anger, and because I could no longer interview healthy adult males struggling to remember their addresses as part of my jailhouse employment, I have found myself in Mexico, re-creating.
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Quiet Still
Fall 1991
