The Novel
The baseline narrative of GALLEY — the eighth floor of a monthly magazine that dealt in the last word, told one issue at a time. Close third, one consciousness per scene, the era's chaos against a calm prose surface.
14 chapters·87k words·6h reading
Volume One
After the Wall
November 1989 – November 1990One year on the eighth floor of Meridian, a monthly magazine in the business of the last word. The Wall is down, the decade has no name yet, and every issue is an argument about what the shouting was about. Each chapter is one issue, pitch to on-stands.
- 1After the WallNovember 1989·33 min
- 2What Comes Through the DoorDecember 1989·44 min
- 3The Die-In at the CathedralJanuary 1990·25 min
- 4The Rehearsed ApologyFebruary 1990·18 min
- 5The Largest Failure YetMarch 1990·22 min
- 6The Capsule on the CoverApril 1990·26 min
- 7The Innocent VictimMay 1990·24 min
- 8One Convicted, One NotJune 1990·25 min
- 9What the Money Was WorthJuly 1990·25 min
- 10What Wouldn't KeepAugust 1990·24 min
- 11The Content of Our CharacterSeptember 1990·26 min
- 12Eight Months on a Picket LineOctober 1990·24 min
- 13The Republic, RejoinedNovember 1990·36 min
- 14The ArtifactNovember 1990·25 min