writing under constraint

Michael Boyden interviews Harry Mathews via email.

This is a reprint of Mathews' short story which originally appeared in The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive 2002).

Harry Mathews writes of the inherent difficulties in translation - especially the translation of his own work.

On the occasion of the 2003 Fitzpatrick O'Dinn Award publication, Alan Sondheim asks some questions of formally constrained literature. The more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions.

Late Breaking: William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Rob Wittig post from Notre Dame University on the &Now festival of writers and writing.

Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity.
Translation by James Stevens

Human waste takes center stage in Dominique Laporte's unusual microhistory, a book as valuable for the anecdotes as for its argument.

Ted Pelton reviews Ben Marcus's novel that's not one.

Thoughts on the debut novel by Alex Shakar.

Jaishree K. Odin on the hyperfiction of M.D. Coverley.