ERIC PUCHNER’s short stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, the Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, and the anthology Best New American Voices 2005 (Harvest Books). His new short-story collection is titled Music through the Floor (Scribner). He teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel.

Essay #3: Leda And The Swan

by Eric Puchner, March 2006 (Issue 363)