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Pinocchio’s Piccolo, or, How Tristram Shandy Got It Straight: Searching in Raymond Federman’s Body Shards

Michael Wutz writes of how, in Raymond Federman's My Body in Nine Parts, body parts are represented as having registered, inscribed, contributed to Federman's life.

Lynne Tillman’s Turbulent Thinking

Eric Dean Rasmussen explores Lynne Tillman's "cognitive aesthetic," suggesting that her work is powered by the generative disconnect between asignifying affect and signifying emotion. He argues that her 1998 novel, No Lease on Life, examines the role of affectively sustained universal values in responding politically to the neoliberal city.

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For a related essay that argues in support of Federman as a political thinker, see Jan Baetans’ review of Larry McCaffery’s Federman A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative.

For a related essay that argues in support of Federman as a political thinker, see Jan Baetans’ review of Larry McCaffery’s Federman A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative.

‐ Lori Emerson

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Even the photograph complementing this section does not show Federman’s private part, but invites private imaginations to visualize what is covered up by Federman’s cupped hands.

Even the photograph complementing this section does not show Federman’s private part, but invites private imaginations to visualize what is covered up by Federman’s cupped hands.

‐ Lori Emerson

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See our review-essay on the 2005 &Now Conference in which Ted Pelton addresses the difficulty of getting experimental writing published in the U.S.

See our review-essay on the 2005 &Now Conference in which Ted Pelton addresses the difficulty of getting experimental writing published in the U.S.

‐ Lori Emerson

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