Fall Forward

Now that all the texts have been selected and edited for the Fall issue, which comes out the end of August, the theme has revealed itself: Action/Adventure.

You may recall the All-Sex Winter issue; the Action/Adventure issue is similar in that you may not recognize the theme when you finally come across it. I'm not afraid to tell you now, because you'll have forgotten it by late August anyway.

The issue includes pieces about: descending an ice wall; flying close ground support in Nam; philandering north of Santa Fe; snowshoeing in West Yellowstone; tracking down a dead shrink; gillnetting in Alaska; selling industrial plumbing in L.A....

What does it all mean? What turmoil in the depths of the editor's psyche is being played out?