Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Published by Cow Eye Press
COLLECTED ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND CRITICISM:
REALISMS
THE IDEA OF LITERATURE
EXPERIMENTAL FICTION NOW
INNOVATIVE WOMEN WRITERS
AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION
BETWEEN SILLINESS AND SATIRE:BLACK HUMOR FICTION
LET'S REVIEW: BOOK REVIEWING AS LITERARY CRITICISM
THE ART OF DISTURBANCE: THE NOVELS OF JAMES PURDY
OTHER POSTS AND ESSAYS:
- Postmodern Fiction and Academic Criticism
- Modernism
- Postmodern Comedy
- James Wood and the "Comedy of Forgiveness"
- Creative Writing and Literary Study
- On McGurl's The Program Era
- Novel or Exploratory Prose?
- The Picaresque
- Originality
- Realism and Romance
- Metafiction
- Socialist Realism
- Literature and the University
- The Big Dialogue of Literature
- Fiction as Sociology
- Rorty and Nabokov
- The Object of Criticism
- Ron Silliman's The Alphabet
- American Hybrid
- Poetry and the People
- Pixels to Print
- Snark
- Translation and Criticism
- Literary Biography
- The Shakespeare "Controversy"
- Modernism vs Realism: A Zero-Sum Game?
- The Kafkaesque
- On Dickens
- Satire
- Character in Fiction
- Interiority
- Academic Blogging
- On John Williams's Stoner
- On Rereading
- Highbrow Literary Blogs
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New Fiction Chronicle:
2018
2017
- Mike McCormack-Solar Bones
- Pamela Ryder-Paradise Field
- Gordon Lish-White Plains
- Baret Magarian-The Fabrications
- Joanna Walsh-Worlds from the Word's End
- Rikki Ducornet-Brightfellow
- Joanna Demers-Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report 2214
- Edie Meidav-Kingdom of the Young
- Robert Coover-Huck Out West
- Ottessa Moshfegh-Homesick for Another World
2016
2015
- Zachary Thomas Dodson-Bats of the Republic
- John Barth-Collected Stories
- Melanie Rae Thon-Song and Silence
- Joshua Cohen-Book of Numbers
- Harold Jaffe-Induced Coma
- Meredith Quartermain-I, Bartleby
- Steve Tomasula-Once Human
- Tom McCarthy-Satin Island
- Sarah Gerard-Binary Star
- Jeremy Davies-Fancy
- Tom LeClair-Lincoln's Billy
- Julie Reverb-No Moon
2014
- Peter Handke
- Nell Zink-The Wallcreeper
- Denis Johnson-The Laughing Monsters
- Eimear McBride-A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
- Gabriel Blackwell-The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men
- Davis Schneidermann-[SIC]
- Siri Hustvedt-The Blazing World
- Joshua Ferris-To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Joshua Corey-Beautiful Soul
- Kyle Minor-Praying Drunk
2013
2012
- A.M. Homes
- Noy Holland-Swim for the Little One First
- Diane Williams-Vicky Swanky is a Beauty
- Ben Marcus-The Flame Alphabet
- Gary Lutz-Divorcer
- Phillipe Claudel-The Investigation
- The Future is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction
- Keith Ridgway-Hawthorn and Child
- Zadie Smith-NW
- Richard Ford-Canada
- Anakana Schofield-Malarky
2011
- Charles Baxter-Gryphon
- Nicholson Baker-House of Holes
- Ishmael Reed-Juice
- Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- Magdalena Tulli-In Red
- Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin
- 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers
- Edmond Caldwell-Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant
- Stacey Levine-The Girl With Brown Fur
- Justin Taylor-The Gospel of Anarchy
- Arthur Phillips-The Tragedy of Arthur
2010
- Steve Stern
- Dawn Raffel
- Gilbert Sorrentino-The Abyss of Human Illusion
- Philip Roth-Nemeses:Short Novels
- Topical Satires (Gary Shteyngart/Rick Moody)
- John Cotter-Under the Small Lights
- Georgi Gospodinov-Natural Novel
- Travis Nichols-Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
- Rebecca Goldstein-36 Arguments for the Existence of God
2009
- Richard Russo
- Lorrie Moore-A Gate at the Stairs
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Elisabeth Sheffield-Fort Da
- Thomas Pynchon-Inherent Vice
- Percival Everett-I Am not Sidney Poitier
- Robert Lopez-Kamby Balongo Mean River
- Zachary German-Eat When You Feel Sad
- Jonathan Littell-The Kindly Ones
- Mary Robison-One D.O.A One on the Way/Why Did I Ever
- Aharon Appelfeld-Laish/All Whom I Have Loved
- Paul Griffiths-Let Me Tell You
2008
- Steven Millhauser
- Sergio de la Pava-A Naked Singularity
- Disassembling Donald Barthelme--Flying to America
- Dave Zeltserman-Small Crimes
- Thomas Glavinic-Night Work
- John Barth-The Development
- K.B. Dixon-Andrew (A to Z)
- Peter Markus-Bob, or Man on Boat
- Che Elias-West Virginia
- Jackie Corley-The Suburban Swindle
- Jeffrey DeShell-The Trouble With Being Born
- Marissa Silver-The God of War
2007
- Max Apple-The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories
- Rosalind Belben-Our Horses in Egypt
- Orhan Pamuk
- Zachary Mason-Lost Books of the Odyssey
- Justin Courter-Skunk: A Love Story
- Two Life Stories
- Ian McEwan-On Chesil Beach
- Stephen Marche-Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
- Underground Literary Alliance
- Interfictions
- Joshua Cohen-Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto
- John Sheppard-Small Town Punk
2006
2005
- FC2 (Ronald Sukenick) and Dalkey Archive (Rikki Ducornet)
- Elizabeth Crane-All That Heavenly Glory
- Steve Stern-The Angel of Forgetfulness
- Stephen Dixon-Old Friends
- Mary Gaitskill--Veronica
- Michael Martone-Michael Martone
- John Barth-Where 3 Roads Meet
- Stephen Dixon-Phone Rings
- E.L. Doctorow-The March
- Bret Easton Ellis-Lunar Park