Reading the North  October 19, 2013   Alaska Quarterly Review,
Fall/Winter 2013  Editor Ronald Spatz (University of Alaska, $18
for two issues)  The blurb: Alaska Quarterly Review is one of
America's premier literary magazines and a source of powerful
new voices. Works originally from AQR have appeared in "Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards," "The Pushcart Prize," "The Beacon
Best," "The Best American Mystery Stories" and more. The highly
respected The New Yorker magazine recently published on its
website 16 pages from AQR's current magazine, Andrea Bruce's
"Afghan Americans."  Excerpt: "Bricks" by Carol K. Howell  His
hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against
him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren. Genesis
16:12  It ended with shoes, then bricks, then blood. But it
began with Japanese beetles. Even before that, the families had
snubbed each other at mailboxes, turned cold shoulders on
garbage day, skipped each other's houses at Halloween. Once,
during a party, the Isaacso