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Things They Wrote With: The Material Making of Modern Fiction

[…]or recuperable for writers whose every word is no more than data entered in the hexadecimal codes of a software program. Kittler remarks, in fact, that “no human being writes anymore…. Today, human writing runs through inscriptions burnt into silicon by electronic lithography…. The last historic act of writing may thus have been in the late seventies when a team of Intel engineers [plotted] the hardware architecture of their first integrated microprocessor.” Dialing back as far as Frank Norris’s McTeague (1899), Wutz shows how profoundly disturbing was the introduction of the typewriter to “Norris’s idea of authorial agency, registering as […]
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Water on Us

[…]even of a spider swimming through a tree, practiced in our actual perceptions. Which we’re working on, to see better like a quantum counterpart or osmosis we’re in the midst of. So, like witness, weighty impediment, reciprocal lens seeming to tell us about ourselves with each other, is water thus our shared incompleteness? Doubting the Gaia theorists, I am willing to wait, a form of listening, for signs that the Gulf Stream is a living organism even if just the conveyor for passengers, such as plankton, Sargassum weed, dolphins, and, at least until recently, 600-pound bluefin tuna. In the current […]

Going Up, Falling Down

[…]of the patron saint of elevators. Like the Pompidou Center in Paris, this material exposes the working guts of symbolic structures. The material also, I think, makes a claim for knowledge independent of intuition or basic empiricism – for specialized information not usually found in fiction. Call this information a Thirdsource. The passages about the elevator in turn make the pages of The Intuitionist a textual Thirdspace, for the elevator material is, in Soja’s terms, both real and imagined, researched and invented. The material may seem marginal to plot and character but is central to the book as a hybrid […]

Free Market Formalism: Reading Economics as Fiction

[…]creative writing programs and book awards in the literary marketplace. Circulation and reception studies invoke the market not only in terms of the dissemination of literary texts but also as a kind of democratic, cosmopolitan public, one that counters older conceptions of the literary text as inviolate, impersonal, and distant from the contaminations of mass culture. These ways of thinking economics into literature are vital to literary studies today. Michael Clune’s American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000 persuasively argues for a different, formally sophisticated mode of engaging with economics and literature that provocatively posits an intimate relationship between literary […]
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Late Light in the House of Sounds: Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul and Other Stories

[…]using what others have said to think through what is happening at the moment. The player is working out what has happened in life, not dwelling on the past but reworking it like “a jump of memory answering answer” (260). If “the beat is all” it’s because it is the measure as a man composing is the measurer of all things, and working out the details in his work the jazz player begins to tell a story and hint at the title the piece he’s working which will be given by an unknown woman later at a club, “Coastline”: The […]
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How to Fail (at) Fiction and Influence Everybody: A Review of Penthouse-F by Richard Kalich

[…]and reader, between the codes given by a text and the choices readers make in interpreting those codes. At times, the writing of Penthouse-F signals a kind of literary seriousness, in prose that attains to the tradition the book so clearly cherishes. Describing an act of warmth and contact with his captives (a foot massage), Kalich muses, “An even greater sense of power and erotic command enveloped me as I observed the girl’s imploring, pleading eyes begging that I do the same for the boy, asking nothing for himself, but rather only for the girl” (178). Yet the text undermines […]
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“Is this for real? Is that a stupid question?”: A Review of Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts

[…]points of view, focusing as they do on “Brian” and “Brad”‘s activities apart from the group consciousness. Yet, as with everything in The Sluts, what is real is indeterminate. What is real is only language, and much of it floats, unanchored in veracity or certainty. If the violence of the prose in the George Miles Cycle often reduces character to language, to inscribability, in The Sluts even language is unsettled – the words used to describe Brad are comically, emphatically inconsistent. As Baker has observed, the information reported by his reviewers gives Brad seven different heights, ten different weights; his […]
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The Latest Word

[…]Elisha Scudder. Boston, 1899. eBook. The Cambridge Poets. Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print. Routledge Classics. McLuhan, Marshall. “Playboy Interview: ‘Marshall McLuhan – A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media.”The Essential McLuhan. Ed. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone. New York: Basic Books, 1995. 233-269. Print. Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Trans. Roger Ariew. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing, 2005. Print. Stevens, Wallace. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. New York: Vintage 1990. White, Curtis. “The Late Word.” Lapham’s Quarterly: Roundtable. Oct. 2011. Web. January […]

Languages of Fear in Steve Tomasula’s VAS, an Opera in Flatland

[…]and body, one being metaphorized by the other throughout VAS, Square hopes to act upon his body by working on his text. “Just a little editing” is one of the recurring phrases bringing together text and body, this one aimed at belittling the consequences of the operation, seen as but an amendment brought on the manuscript of Square’s body. He tries to become more familiar with the surgery awaiting him by playing on words, their sounds and mutations, as well as by calling upon earlier examples of similar “procedures”, to use the term referring to the vasectomy in VAS. The […]
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Riposte to Curtis White’s “The Latest Word”

[…]via apps, from individual artists, like Christine Wilks, and small collaborative teams, like the group behind the narrative-driven audio app for runners, “Zombies Run!” The latter might not qualify as literature or art, despite being co-created by a  prize-winning literary novelist, Naomi Alderman, but the work of the former, including Wilks multiple award-winning piece “Underbelly,” most definitely does. But even “Zombies Run!,” with its fantastically successful Kickstarter funding drive, shows new ways for writing and writers to make their mark – with Alderman’s literary abilities harnessed in this way, perhaps “Zombies Run!” will be included in someone’s idea of a canon, […]
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