Cultural Writing. Each of the editors of major U.S. literary magazines explains the choice of a particular story, describes the editorial procedures and defines the editorial policies of the literary magazine in which the story originally appeared. Written especially for the collection, each of the essays contains the complete text of an examplary story by a contemporary writer with the editor's comments. The included editors are from the following magazines: The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, CALYX: A Journal of the Arts and Literature By Women, The Carolina Quarterly, Chelsea, Fiction, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, Iowa Woman, New England Review, New Letters, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Texas Quarterly, The Threepenny Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.