CONTENTS
"Early Reviews from The Reading Experience: Small Press Books"
Includes considerations of: Eighty-Sixed, by Brian Ames; Breath and Bones, by Susann Cokal; Small Town Punks, by John Sheppard; The Meat and Spirit Plan, by Selah Saterstrom's and O Street, by Corrina Wycoff; The Blue of Her Body, by Sara Greenslit; Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, by Travis Nichols; Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing; Jamestown, by Matthew Sharpe; The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason; Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, by Stephen Marche; Let Me Tell You, by Paul Griffiths; Fancy, by Jeremy M. Davies; The Floating Order, by Erin Pringle
"Reviews from The Reading Experience: Adventures in Adventurous Fiction"
Includes considerations of: Where 3 Roads Meet, by John Barth; Phone Rings, by Stephen Dixon; Michael Martone, by Michael Martone; Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill; Echo Maker, Richard Powers; Remainder, by Tom McCarthy; The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories, by Max Apple; Dangerous Laughter, by Steven Millhauser; The Trouble With Being Born, by Jeffrey DeShell; Our Horses in Egypt, by Rosalind Belben; Fort Da, by Elisabeth Sheffield; The Tragedy of Arthur, by Arthur Phillips
"Return Engagements: On Sorrentino, Pynchon, Barth, Powers, Dixon"
Sorrentino: The Moon In Its Flight; A Strange Commonplace; The Abyss of Human Illusion; Pynchon: Inherent Vice; Bleeding Edge; Barth: The Development; Collected Stories;; Powers: Plowing the Dark; The Overstory; Dixon: Old Friends; Late Stories
"Totality of Vision: Varieties of Postmodern Fiction"
On the fiction of Donald Barthelme; John Hawkes; Harry Mathews; Raymond Federman; William Gass; Robert Coover; Don DeLillo; Joseph McElroy; Ishmael Reed; Kurt Vonnegut
"Like Life: Some Versions of Realism"
Considerations of: Affliction, by Russell Banks; House of Holes, by Nicholson Baker; The Moon Over Wapakoneta, by Michael Martone; Canada, by Richard Ford; Benediction, by Kent Haruf; Homesick for Another World, by Ottessa Moshfegh; Garbage Times/White Ibis, by Sam Pink
"The Uses and Abuses of Satire"
Considering: Henry Green; Terry Southern; Percival Everett; Helen DeWitt; George Saunders; Rebecca Goldstein; Alta Ifland
"The Fortunes of Experimental Fiction (I)"
Considering: William Melvin Kelley; Gil Orlovitz; Rudolph Wurlitzter; Jonathan Baumbach; Rosalyn Drexler; Harold Jaffe; David Ohle
"The Fortunes of Experimental Fiction (II)"
Considering: David Foster Wallace; Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City); Joshua Ferris (To Rise Again at a Decent Hour); Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet); Mark Danielewski (The Fifty Year Sword); Davis Schneiderman ([SIC]); Blake Butler (Alice Knott); Sergio de la Pava (A Naked Singularity); Jim Gauer (Novel Explosives); William Luvaas (Beneath the Coyote Hills); Zachary Thomas Dodson (Bats of the Republic); Daniel James (The Unauthorized Biography of Ezra Maas)
"The Fortunes of Experimental Fiction (III)"
Considering: Steve Tomasula (Once Human); Evan Dara; Shelley Jackson (Riddance); Michael Joyce (Remedia); Lance Olsen (My Red Heaven); Carole Maso (Ghost Dance); Elisabeth Sheffield (Ire Land (a Faery Tale)); John Keene (Counternarratives); Gabriel Blackwell (Babel); Christian TeBordo (Ghost Engine)
The School of Lish: Garielle Lutz; Diane Williams; Noy Holland; Dawn Raffel; Gordon Lish; Pamela Ryder
Living in Language: Melanie Rae Thon; Joshua Corey; Meredith Quartermain; Thalia Field
Considering: Rikki Ducornet; Joanna Ruocco (Dan); Angela Woodward (Natural Wonders); Aimee Bender; Sarah Rose Etter (The Book of X); Jen Fawkes (Mannequin and Wife and Tales the Devil Told Me); S.D. Chrostowska (The Eyelid); Steve Stern (The Frozen Rabbi); Henry Dumas (Echo Tree); Rion Amilcar Scott (The World Doesn’t Require You)
Considering: Ann Quinn (The Unmapped Country); Tom McCarthy (Satin Island); Zadie Smith (NW); Joanna Walsh (Worlds from the Word’s End); Keith Ridgway (Hawthorn and Child); Anna Burns (Milkman); Mike McCormack (Solar Bones); David Hayden (Darker With the Lights On); Hugh Fulham-McQuillan (Notes on Jackson and His Dead)
Considering: Dumitru Tsepeneag's The Bulgarian Truck; Magdalena Tulli's In Red; Orhan Pamuk; Evald Flisar's A Swarm of Dust; Katja Perat’s The Masochist; Giedra Radvilaviciute's Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again; László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming