Markku Eskelinen’s response to Julian Raul Kucklich
Markku EskelinenMarkku Eskelinen reiterates the bounds of ludology.
Tending the Garden Plot: Victory Garden and Operation Enduring…
David Ciccoricco
Dave Ciccoricco returns to Stuart Moulthrop, considers Operation Enduring Freedom (2003) in light of Operation Desert Storm (1991), and consults the annals of World War II for a likely source of "Victory Garden," the title of Moulthrop's 1991 network fiction on the Gulf War.
Mister Squishy, c’est moi: David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion
Kiki BenzonKiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.
a Joseph McElroy festschrift
Andrew WalserAndrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.
How to Avoid Being Paranoid
Melissa Gregg"Sedgwick's emphasis is on generating concepts that add to the complexity and inclusiveness of our representations, rather than trying to prescribe the right revolutionary path." Melissa Gregg reviews Eve Sedgwick's Touching Feeling.
Notes Toward a Proleptic History of Electronic Reading
Matthew G. KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum rethinks the final section of First Person in light of "five basic strategies for furthering the history of reading."
A Poetry of Noesis
Tim KeaneOn Joseph McElroy's Fiction as a lifelong, dramatic investigation of noesis - that abstract but
evocative concept rooted in Platonic idealism and redefined(through Phenomenology) as
those ineluctable acts of consciousness that constitute reality.
If It Could Be Wrapped
Joseph McElroyExcerpted from Water Writing - an essay; presented as part of the ebr Critical Ecologies thread; concurrent with a literary Festschrift in honor of Joseph McElroy's lifework.
History as Accretion and Excavation
Paul GleasonPaul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.
McElroy’s “Letter”
Charles MolesworthCharles Molesworth on style and spatial form in McElroy's Letter Left to Me, a novel whose poetic making is also an ethical growth.
Re-opening Hind’s Kidnap
Joseph MilazzoJoseph Milazzo writes about one of the least written about books by Joseph McElroy.
God Help Us
Tim KeaneA Review of Malise Ruthven's A Fury for God: The Islamist
Attack on America, from Tim Keane, with links to a growing body of writing on terror in ebr.
Weight Inward into Lightness: A Reading of Canoe Repair
Flore Chevaillier"The plot offers not so much progress as recurrence, duplication, and reiteration." Flore Chevaillier offers one way to fill in the gaps of Joseph McElroy "Canoe Repair."
Joseph McElroy’s Cyborg Plus
Salvatore ProiettiSalvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.