The Present of Fiction
R. M. BerryRecent fiction by Curtis White, Alex Shakar, Michael Martone, and others read through the lens of Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein.
Working Progress, Working Title [Automystifstical Plaice]
John Matthiasgraphics: Artists Rights Society; Performance for MIDI keyboard, pianola configurations, and click-track:G. Schirmer Rental; studio portrait of Hedy Lamarr: Roy George and Associates.
Learning to Wish for More
Lance OlsenLance Olsen tells the story of a creative writing professor who walked.
New Media and Old: The Limits of Continuity
GeniwateLev Manovich makes the first sustained case for a new media theory, but with cinema as his starting point he has a hard time engaging the non-representational artforms and aural explorations to be found there. So argues the Australian media writer, geniwate.
Jane’s Soliloquy
Ronald SukenickSukenick responds to Fleisher's feminist critique of "Narralogues" in the voice of his own fictional jeune-fille, Jane.
Reformation Under Way
Sandy HussSandy Huss suggests that the reform envisioned by Amato and Fleisher is already underway.
Not Pessimistic Enough
R. M. BerryReflections on Creative Writing as potentially part of the tradition of the avant garde.
Amato/Fleisher Too Pessimistic
Marjorie PerloffIn the era of English Department Cultural Studies, does the study of literature belong to the poet-professors? Marjorie Perloff offers a view from the English Department of what CW can do.
CW and The Art of Living
David RadavichDavid Radavich rethinks creative writing as an art of living - one of many.
Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy
Kass FleisherJoe Amato and Kass Fleisher suggest that creative writing pedagogy, particularly as found in the typical workshop, might benefit from a major, theoretically-informed, re-visioning. Introduced by ebr managing editor (1999-2002), Kirsten Young.
Intersection and Struggle: Poetry In a New Landscape
Brandon BarrBrandon Barr considers Loss Glazier's attempt at a hypertext poetics that moves beyond the link.
Tales of Almost
Linda CarroliLinda Carolli on the third hybrid collection by Michael Joyce, a work (like the technological landscape it's about) at once industrial and informatic, essayistic and narrative, technical and autobiographical.
Metaphysics after the Western Wall Has Come Down
Amy EliasPolymythic Personalistic Organicism, Biocentric Egalitarianism, and the Postmodern Return to Religion.
Cyberlaw and Its Discontents
GeniwateSetting one scholar's legalistic solutions against texts by cyber-critics and posts by netizens and web artists, geniwate looks at the issue of copyright law online.