The Quarterly Conversation has posted a roundtable on the great Harry Mathews, including essays by Dan Visel and Ed Park …
William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street in JR
Dalkey Archive Press has just reissused two of the most important texts of the past sixty years–William Gaddis’s The Recognitions…
Dalkey Archive Press
Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien,…
Gabriel Blackwell on Stanley Elkin’s Boswell
ABOUT BOSWELL I am, by way of introduction, perpetually adjunct; not quite ad hoc, still not joined. Inessential. A barnacle,…
Using Viktor Shklovsky
[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…
This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year
And it’s a reprint, and I already own the original: It’s that good.
A Pan-English Dictionary (for readers of Harry Mathews’s The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium)
J.R.R. Tolkien’s not the only novelist who invented fictional languages! In Harry Mathews‘s early masterpiece, the epistolary novel The Sinking…
Announcing the Summer 2011 Issue of Requited
The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon,…
An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy),…
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind…