American Summer
Troop Train
By Roger Angell
At the Jewish Beach
By Hilton Als
Pool Buddy
By Susan Orlean
Before Air-Conditioning
The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya? Ha-ha!”
By Arthur Miller
Secrets of a Southern Porch
By Eugene Walter
Fly-Fishing for Doctors
By Ethan Canin
“Seascape #1”
By Tom Wesselmann