Preface -- Against the "impossible to explain..." -- Early tide. William Gass ; Guy Davenport ; John Barth ; John Hawkes & Robert Coover ; Thomas Pynchon ; Donald Barthelme -- Second tide. Toni Morrison ; Russell Banks ; Gilbert Sorrentino, 1983 ; Stephen Dixon, Time to go ; Stephen Dixon, Interstate ; Ishmael Reed, JUICE! ; Patrick McGrath -- Distant moons. Can Xue ; Michael Ondaatje ; Alain Mabanckou ; W.G. Sebald ; Paul Ableman ; Elias Khoury ; Italo Calvino -- Fresh tide. Jay Cantor, Che Guevara ; Jay Cantor & John Barth ; Jaimy Gordon ; Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 ; Richard Powers, Generosity ; Don DeLillo, Falling man ; Lance Olsen, Head in flames -- Other gravities. Dylan dog ; "Italian metamorphosis," Guggenheim ; The sopranos ; W.S. Di Piero -- Coming tide. Brian Evenson ; Zachary Mason ; Gilbert Sorrentino, final novels ; Dawn Raffel, Further adventures... ; Roy Kesey, Pacazo ; Paul Harding, Tinkers ; Blake Butler & Matt Bell -- Galactic pole. Dante & the triumph of fragility.
Summary:
"A witty and sophisticated examination of nontraditional storytelling in contemporary art and literature, [this work] contains reviews and essays on some of the most interesting authors and artists of the last forty years"--P. [4] of cover.
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