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Form and Emotion
Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.
Blank Frank
This review of Ralph Berry's novel Frank and the subsequent exchange between the authors, appeared in the March/April 2006 and July/August 2006 issues of The American Book Review.
And Furthermore…
R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi
And Furthermore…
Joseph Tabbi Responds to R. M. Berry
Notes from the Middleground: On Ben Marcus, Jonathan Franzen, and the Contemporary Fiction Combine
Davis Schneiderman revisits the non-debate between Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus, touches on recent flare-ups in the American Book Review and the NOW WHAT blog, and reflects on the economy of book jacket blurbs.