Selected critical bibliography: interviews, reviews, and articles on...

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......with Gilbert Sorrentino. Review of Contemporary Fiction 21.3 (2001): 60-68. --. Conclusion...Gilbert Sorrentino. Review of Contemporary Fiction 21.3 (2001): 7-59. --. `Something...Gilbert Sorrentino, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Provocative Fiction. Bridge...

Write me a novel I can actually read

The Independent - London;  April 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ......called, variously, New or Modern or Contemporary Fiction, I shall be giving them a very wide...thank. I had been trying to give up contemporary fiction for years. My bookshelves creak...jackets, the distinguishing feature of contemporary fiction. My classics, inherited from ...

The modern novel: is there a plot or just a conspiracy?

The Independent - London;  May 7, 1995 ;     253 words ...DAVID Nicholson-Lord's blanket criticism of contemporary fiction ("Write me a novel I can actually read", 30...So much for "the distinguishing feature of contemporary fiction". Likewise, the incestuous, self-contained institution...

Laurie Vickroy: "Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction.".(Book...

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  August 1, 2004 ;     302 words ...Laurie Vickroy: Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction. Bradley University, Department of English: College...Laurie Vickroy's book Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction is a very interesting work, and we, the Journal...

The Aesthetics of Post-Realism and the Obscenification of Everyday Life:...

Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Baudrillardean realm of simulacra has come to dominate much of contemporary fiction. The excessive consciousness of the "real" as mere artifice...contemplation of its own (not very glorious) doings, has invaded contemporary fiction, which is likewise characterized by an obsession with...

BOOKS

The Independent - London;  September 5, 1994 ;     697 words ......you are chairman of the judges for the most prestigious award for contemporary fiction, but don't actually like contemporary fiction? Or you love contemporary fiction but can't abide your wife? Every year the Booker provides a moment...

Hysterical realism grows up at last

The Independent on Sunday;  November 18, 2007 ;     476 words ......bound to see these pages as a guide to the health of contemporary fiction. Zadie Smith explains in her introduction that each contributor...paramount. That "hysterical realism", the tendency in contemporary fiction so accurately diagnosed by critic James Wood in 2001...

Jean Wyatt. Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in...

African American Review;  December 22, 2005 ;     483 words ......Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004. 266...Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism, Jean Wyatt makes an important contribution...

(book reviews)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 1997 ;     432 words ......moment the New York City of the last ten or so years of contemporary fiction--that dark, cynical landscape of Easton and Janowitz...what a refreshing contrast to the de riguer solipsism of contemporary fiction's urban dwellers! And these stories are technically innovative...

BizBuzz

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  July 4, 2003 ;     67 words ...The Contemporary Fiction Book Discussion Group will meet at 2 p.m. July 15 at Barnes and Noble, 102 Commons Drive in Geneva. The group is reading My Dream...

On the trail of Rosa A novel of passion and prestidigitation and the...

The Boston Globe;  February 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Martyn Bedford. Pantheon. 310 pp. $24. Kurt Jensen reviews contemporary fiction for The American Scholar, The Los Angeles Times, and...hidden biography. (An observation: As a plot device in contemporary fiction, Amsterdam is emerging as the stage upon which the raw...

ON SEX AND INTERCOURSE IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION

The Village Voice;  February 8, 2006 ;     265 words ...WORD SALAD ON SEX AND INTERCOURSE IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION By Dana Carroll Pure Theory, 129 pp., $30 Think you can tell the difference between a sex scene written by Candace Bushnell and...

(book review)

Studies in the Novel;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......MICHAEL. Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction (New York: Columbia University Press...surveys of the complex terrain of contemporary fiction. Annesley's book focuses strictly...important fundamental characteristics of contemporary fiction as a whole. In fact, one feels that...

Wilson Harris at Faber and Faber.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......was asked to contribute to this issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, I felt a strange mixture of exhilaration and apprehension...unreliable critics (in the sense readers of the Review of Contemporary Fiction would understand the term) of their authors--this in...

Meet Dale Peck, the Lizzie Borden of critics

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ...HATCHET JOBS writings on contemporary fiction By Dale Peck The New Press. $23.95. Now here's a publishing...the paper they're printed on, either. "Writings on Contemporary Fiction" is the sober subtitle Hatchet Jobs wags none too...