Life Sentences for the New America
Tim KeaneTim Keane reviews David Matlin's Prisons: Inside the New America.
The Eternal Hourglass of Existence
Sascha PohlmannSascha Pöhlmann reviews Lance Olsen's 2006 novel Nietzsche's Kisses.
Pinocchio’s Piccolo, or, How Tristram Shandy Got It Straight: Searching in Raymond Federman’s Body Shards
Michael WutzMichael Wutz writes of how, in Raymond Federman's My Body in Nine Parts, body parts are represented as having registered, inscribed, contributed to Federman's life.
An Interview with Harry Mathews
Michael BoydenMichael Boyden interviews Harry Mathews via email.
The Dialect of the Tribe
Harry MathewsThis is a reprint of Mathews' short story which originally appeared in The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive 2002).
Fearful Symmetries
Harry MathewsHarry Mathews writes of the inherent difficulties in translation - especially the translation of his own work.
The Riddling Effect: Rules and Unruliness in the Work of Harry Mathews
Michael BoydenMichael Boyden reflects on the stubborn and idiosyncratic fiction of Harry Mathews and introduces a new ebr gathering of work on and by Mathews.
Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel
Stephen J. BurnStephen J. Burn interviews fiction writer Lee Siegel.
Already Too Many Stories in the World
Stephen-Paul MartinFC2 author and ebr "Fictions Present" editor Lance Olsen, in his 2005 novel offers one alternative for print fiction in the era of big data: to suggest and depict "the vastness of time when it is not strictly confined to numerical sequence."
Modernism Reevaluated
Walton MuyumbaWalton Muyumba reviews two books: Michael Soto's The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and American Literature (2004) and Manuel Martinez's Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera (2003).
Notes from the Middleground: On Ben Marcus, Jonathan Franzen, and the Contemporary Fiction Combine
Davis SchneidermanDavis Schneiderman revisits the non-debate between Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus, touches on recent flare-ups in the American Book Review and the NOW WHAT blog, and reflects on the economy of book jacket blurbs.