The Dialect of the Tribe
Harry MathewsThis is a reprint of Mathews' short story which originally appeared in The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive 2002).
Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel
Stephen J. BurnStephen J. Burn interviews fiction writer Lee Siegel.
Already Too Many Stories in the World
Stephen-Paul MartinFC2 author and ebr "Fictions Present" editor Lance Olsen, in his 2005 novel offers one alternative for print fiction in the era of big data: to suggest and depict "the vastness of time when it is not strictly confined to numerical sequence."
Modernism Reevaluated
Walton MuyumbaWalton Muyumba reviews two books: Michael Soto's The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and American Literature (2004) and Manuel Martinez's Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera (2003).
Notes from the Middleground: On Ben Marcus, Jonathan Franzen, and the Contemporary Fiction Combine
Davis SchneidermanDavis 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.
Blank Frank
Joseph TabbiThis 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.
