The Fall 2006 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Ron Carlson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Guest-edited by acclaimed novelist and short story writer Ron Carlson (The Hotel Eden, Five Skies), the Fall 2006 all-fiction issue of Ploughshares contains prose by such notable authors as Amy Bloom, Lauren Groff, and Gish Jen. In his Introduction to the 100th issue of Ploughshares, Carlson wishes the reader the kind of reading experience he loves to have: "Go out and do something. Lay in some food. Here's a book."