[…]to Dante throughout the New York City sections (especially those in Part II, chapter 8) “build[] upon the poetic tradition linking the modern city with hell (Milton, Blake, Francis Thompson, Eliot, Hart Crane, and later Ginsberg)” (34) to establish Wyatt’s time in New York as the “infernal descent” during which he “confront[s] the dark contents of his unconscious” (33). While the allusions to hell are numerous, the New York City scenes do not solely function as a backdrop to Wyatt’s dark night of the soul, but also provide a material basis for the novel’s critique of postwar America. Amidst the […]
[…]help provide a solid foundation for the next century of reading, understanding, teaching, and studying Gaddis and his works. Without further preamble, we invite our readers to dive into the assembled special issue through the table of contents with links below, beginning with our fuller introduction to the project. Following that introduction, the special issue is divided into five sections: a set of projections for future Gaddis study; a collection of peer-reviewed academic articles that provide new contexts and frameworks for reading Gaddis’s fictions; a series of roundtable discussions of Gaddis’s relevance in various fields; a pair of guides to […]
[…]Mr. Gaddis arrived, I took a fiction workshop with Isaac Bashevis Singer. Mr. Gaddis was going to come and offer a writers’ workshop as well, and because his long-awaited second novel J R had just come out, this was a big deal. I read it the summer before taking his class, and liked the dialogue-driven approach, the humor, and the light he cast on the dark side of capitalism across a wide range of characters, within the mammoth world of yearning and striving he had created. Reading his letters from that period, I recognized myself as part of the student […]
[…]the fall of 1990, he had just gotten back from sabbatical and I was an undergraduate getting ready to complete my undergraduate thesis in creative writing, that was an Honors Track inside the English department at the time, and you would find a thesis advisor, contribute some material to the university library as an honors thesis and get your bachelors in English with an honors in creative writing. And Bob told me right away, in the first five minutes in his office, that he was not taking any undergraduate advisees. SR: “Get out of my office.” RA: Exactly. Fortunately, at […]
[…]of the board of the Electronic Literature Organization, and is the author of nine novels, the latest of which is Xibalba Gate, A Novel of the Classic Maya. An interactive novel, Portal, was published in 1986 on computer disk and two years later in ‘hard copy’. Rob Swigart has been a journalist, a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future, a technical writer for Apple Computer, designer and writer of several computer games, secretary of the board of the Electronic Literature Organization, and is the author of nine novels, the latest of which is Xibalba Gate, A Novel of […]
[…]150 50-Word Stories (2010); Jesus Coyote (2008); Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer’s Guide to Post-Millennial Culture (2006); Terror-dot-Gov (2003); 15 Serial Killers (2002); False Positive (2001); Sex for the Millennium (1999); Othello Blues (1996); Straight Razor (1995); Eros Anti-Eros (1990); Madonna and Other Spectacles (1988); Beasts (1986); Dos Indios (1983); and Mourning Crazy Horse (1982); Mole’s Pity (1979). Jaffe’s fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review; City Lights Review; Performing Arts Journal; New Directions in Prose and Poetry; Chicago Review; Chelsea; Fiction; Central Park, Witness; Black Ice; Minnesota Review; Boundary 2; ACM; Black Warrior Review; Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, […]
[…]in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her book Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001) concerns intersections between post-1960s historiography, the historical sublime, and literature. Her current book project is a study of the ethics of dialogue in postmodern theory, aesthetics, and contemporary […]
[…]centuries. He is the current president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His latest publications are Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (Michigan, 2001) and, co-edited with Linda Dalrymple Henderson, the collection From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (Stanford, 2002). Bruce Clarke is Professor of English at Texas Tech University, specializing in the coevolution of literary and technoscientific developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the current president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His latest publications are Energy Forms: Allegory […]
[…]and “Ventriloquies: On the Outlook for a Poetic Planet.” Alan Shaw is a poet, playwright, composer, and translator. His verse has appeared in Grand Street and Partisan Review, and on his website, www.prosoidia.com. His verse translation of the classic Russian play “The Woes of Wit” (by Griboyedov) was published in 1992. He lives in New York City. Shaw’s contributions to the electropoetics include “Some Questions on Greek Poetry and Music,” and “Harry Partch–A Poet’s View,” and “Ventriloquies: On the Outlook for a Poetic […]
[…]print work-in-progress, will appear in the upcoming issue of Chain. In ebr, she riPOSTed to Amato and Fleisher’s essay Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy. SANDY HUSS teaches in The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Since publishing Labor for Love, her short fiction collection, she has explored the juxtaposition of text with image. This work has evolved into a study of the historical forms of the book and to the design of digital spaces. An excerpt from Scrap Book, her long print work-in-progress, will appear in the upcoming issue of Chain. In ebr, she riPOSTed to […]