Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Published by Cow Eye Press
The Literary Sphere
THE LITERARY SPHERE: TAKING CRITICISM ONLINE
-The Idea of Literature
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- The Eminently Sayable (On The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House)
- Conditions of Perception (Point of View in The Virgin Suicides)
- Merely Literary
- Subversive
- Literary Citizenship (On The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship and the Writing Life)
- Moral Improvement
THE IDEA OF LITERATURE
-Literary Aesthetics
LITERARY AESTHETICS
-Literature in the University
LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
Let's Review
- Book Reviewing in America
- Going Negative
- Staying Positive
- In Practice--Matter: On John Domini's The Sea-God's Herb
- In Practice--Anti-Matter: B.R. Myers
- Gatekeeping
- Taking Sides (On A.O. Scott's Better Living Through Criticism)
- Criticism in Cyberspace (On The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online) - The Reading Experience
LET'S REVIEW: BOOK REVIEWING AS LITERARY CRITICISM
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THE ART OF DISTURBANCE: THE NOVELS OF JAMES PURDY
On Contemporary Fiction
- Postmodern Confusions:Definitions-David Foster Wallace-Jonathan Lethem-George Saunders-Ben Marcus
(Also included in e-book, Experimental Fiction Now) - Sentences: Gary Lutz, Diane Williams, Dawn Raffel, Noy Holland, Julie Reverb
(Also included in e-books, Experimental Fiction Now, Innovative Women Writers) - Dynamics of the Page: Steve Tomasula, Lance Olsen Zachary Thomas Dodson, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, Mark Danielewski
(Also include in e-book, Experimental Fiction Now) - Fabulators: Rikki Ducornet, Aimee Bender, Joanna Ruocco, Angela Woodward, Stephanie Polek
(Also included in e-book, Innovative Women Writers) - Supersize It: Evan Dara, Sergio de la Pava, Joshua Cohen, Jim Gauer
(Also included in the e-book, Experimental Fiction Now) - Radical Realists: Sam Pink, Stephen Dixon, Nicholson Baker, Rion Amilcar Scott
(Also included in the e-book, Realisms) - Regressive Realists: Richard Powers, Denis Johnson, Kent Haruf, Richard Ford
(Also included in the e-book, Realisms) - Postmodern Progressions: Rudolph Wurlitzer, Jonathan Baumbach, Harold Jaffe, Carole Maso, Gordon Lish
- Shades of Laughter: Steven Millhauser, Steve Stern, Michael Martone, Max Apple, Percival Everett
- British/Irish: Tom McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Mike McCormack, Joanna Walsh, Ann Quinn, David Hayden, Anna Burns
- Eastern European: Dumitru Tsepeneag, Magdalena Tulli, Orhan Pamuk, Giedra Radvilaviciute, Evald Flisar, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- Breaking Form: Gabriel Blackwell, Daniel James, Elisabeth Sheffield, Meredith Quartermain, Hilary Plum, Paul Griffith, William Luvaas, Jeremy Davis, Pamela Ryder, Eric Lundgren
Also included in the e-books, Experimental Fiction Now, Innovative Women Writers, Many Windows, and A Wide Angle
EXPERIMENTAL FICTION NOW
INNOVATIVE WOMEN WRITERS
REALISMS
MANY WINDOWS: ON EXPERIMENTAL FICTION
A WIDER ANGLE: AMERICAN FICTION AT THE PERIPHERY
Also Considering:
- Postmodern Fiction in the New Millennium
- Russell Banks: “Contextualized Naturalism: The Artfulness of Russell Banks's Affliction”
- Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
- Aharon Appelfeld
- Ron Silliman: "Tangibility of the Word"
- John Updike
- John Keene's Counternarratives
- Melanie Rae Thon
- Arthur Phillips-The Tragedy of Arthur
- Jack Kerouac
- Ottessa Moshfegh-Homesick for Another World
- A.M. Homes
- On John Williams's Stoner
- Poet as Sage
- Sad and Bad and Mad: The Fiction of Rosalyn Drexler
- Late Sorrentino
- Harry Mathews
- Joshua Ferris-To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Mary Robison
- Lorrie Moore
- Realism (On Peter Brooks's Realist Vision)
- Peter Handke
- Anakana Schofield
- Susan Cokal's Breath and Bones
- Local Experiments (Jeffrey DeShell, Matthew Roberson)
- Tom LeClair-Lincoln's Billy
- Sarah Gerard's Binary Star
- Edmond Caldwell's Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant
- Philip Roth's Nemeses:Short Novels
- Adam Thirlwell's The Delighted States
Postmodernists 1.0
- Metafictionists: John Barth, William Gass, Robert Coover, Raymond Federman
(Also included in e-book, American Postmodern Fiction) - Iconoclasts: Donald Barthelme, John Hawkes, Ishmael Reed, Thomas Pynchon
(Also included in e-book, American Postmodern Fiction) - Black Humor Fiction: Joseph Heller, Bruce Jay Friedman, James Purdy, Terry Southern, Kurt Vonnegut
(Also included in the e-book, Between Silliness and Satire)