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fictions present

Current thread editor: Kiki Benzon. Thread editor from 2006-09: Stephen Burn

Everything that happens, happens now. The essays, narratives, and essay-narratives gathered under the thread title, Fictions Present, reaffirm the 'presentist' bias in electronic publishing and in ebr particularly: our non-periodical, continuous publication is designed to keep the archive current and to present critical writing not as an afterthought, but as an integral element in the creation of literary fictions.

2006-09-08

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.

2006-08-20

And Furthermore...

Joseph Tabbi Responds to R. M. Berry

2006-08-20

And Furthermore...

R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi

2006-08-20

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.

2004-10-20

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.

1996-09-01

No Victims, the anti-theme

Cris Mazza sends in her introduction to the follow-up volume of Chick-Lit, No Victims.

2003-04-20

Mimicries

Rone Shavers argues that making readers aware of subjugation - the strategy of Harold Jaffe's False Positive - exposes little and hardly changes our relation to power.

2003-04-21

Welcome to Baltimore

Picking up Lance Olsen's theme of thinking as digestion, Michael Martone chews on what's Avant Garde about Baltimore.

2003-04-27

The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature

Ralph Berry on Avant-Garde fiction and the future of the page.

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