1976-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents 1976/08 — Contents as follows: Trains in Trouble — Amtrak to the rescue? — by Tracy Kidder The Rice Is Wild — Harvesting the Earth’s last undomesticated grain by Robert Treuer Thinking About the Thinkable — Arms and the politicians — by Drew Middleton Crumblings — Some true stories about interesting people — by Wallace E. Knight Francis Ford Coppola — Portrait of the Godfather’s film father — by Susan Braudy FICTION: “The Tryst” by Joyce Carol Oates POETRY: “The Hawk of the Mind” by Peter Davison “To Dorothy” by Marvin Bell “Shoplifters” by Maura Stanton LIFE & LETTERS: Chapter the Seventh: In Pursuit of the Wali of Fafa by Andrew Ward Twyla Tharp by Dale Harris Culture Watch by Benjamin DeMott Short Reviews PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams The Editor’s Page Farewell, My Lovely by Caskie Stinnett The Mail Share this:TwitterFacebook Related