fictions present
Our Struggle: Reading Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp
A roundtable discussion hosted by Karl Knausgaard's Alma Mater in Bergen, Norway.
Taxonomographic Metafiction: A review of Anthony Uhlmann’s Saint Antony in His Desert
For Martin Eve, Anthony Uhlmann appears to be writing for a very small audience: "those who are interested in contemporary mutations in metafiction, autofiction, and post-postmodern sensibilities."
Decollage of an Iconic Image
Even as the first biography of Kathy Acker appears, we have word of a newly assembled Acker archive in Cologne, under the curatorship of Daniel Schulz. The gist of which, could be to re-orient Acker's personal relationships to "the politics inherent in Acker's life."
Of Myth and Madness: A Postmodern Fable
Ralph Clare reviews After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus.
Review of Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
Berry, who with ebr editor Joseph Tabbi initiated the Fictions Present thread (circa 2006), finds few intersections of that project with Hungerford’s celebrated Making Literature Now, not least because Hungerford shows little interest in the question of how her titular concept, when applied to commercial and cultural productions, indie and alt endeavors, “manages to mean what those trying to make literature are trying to make.”