This Anthology issue resumes publication of Linnaean Street by collecting some of my favorite pieces circa 2000-2003. 

Linnaean Street, though small and experimental and handmade, was the first Web literary magazine to publish an as yet unpublished story by a regular contributor to The New Yorker (David Plante's "What Gives Pleasure"). Vincent Louis Carrella published his first short story ("Dinghy") in these pages. Carrella's novel, The Serpent Box & The Poison Jar, is forthcoming from Harper-Collins. Dennis Must provided "Comin' for to Carry Me Home." His next short story collection after Banjo Grease is  forthcoming from Red Hen Press.  Norman Lock contributed a fine section of his meta-novel, History of the Imagination ("Caruso in Mombasa") and also an original essay on his eccentric creative process. Joseph Faria is writing a crime fiction series starring a Portuguese-American former gangster turned private-eye named Costa Joe. Bob Thurber, winner of more prizes than I can count, recently collected all his short fictions into a single book. Thurber's agent, Jack Scovil, is now sending it around to publishers. Many of the other writers, such as Chris Semansky and Lynn Kozlowski, have published their fiction on the Web and are worth an Internet search. Others, like Mary Kelly and Claudia Zuluaga, more or less vanished from sight after publishing here. Stefan Ash, who once sent me a handwritten letter from Malta when he was confined to a hospital bed, died a few years ago.

ANDREW WILSON