The Quarterly Conversation has posted a roundtable on the great Harry Mathews, including essays by Dan Visel and Ed Park …
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…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Robert Walser’s SPEAKING TO THE ROSE and Harry Mathews’s 20 LINES A DAY
Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…
“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”
Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write…
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)