MARSHALL BOSWELL teaches fiction writing and American literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion (University of Missouri Press) and has a story collection, In Between Things, forthcoming from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years

by Marshall Boswell, February 2002 (Issue 314)