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Weight Inward into Lightness: A Reading of Canoe Repair
"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."
a Joseph McElroy festschrift
Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.
Enthralled by Systems
Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).
History as Accretion and Excavation
Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.