The Rules of the Game
Virginia Kuhn
Virginia Kuhn reviews an essay collection - Cybertext: Yearbook 2000 - ambivalent about its own printed status.
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.