SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (UPDATED AUGUST 2007)

WORKS BY CAROLE MASO

BOOKS

The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive, 1994. New York: Plume, 1995.

The Art Lover. San Francisco: North Point P, 1990. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1995. New Directions, 2006

Aureole. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996. City Lights, 2002.

AVA. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive P, 1993.

Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002.

Break Every Rule. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.

Defiance. New York: Dutton, 1998. Dalkey Archive, 2004.

Ghost Dance. San Fransisco: North Point, 1986. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1995.

The Room Lit By Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.

ESSAYS, EXCERPTS, AND STORIES

“A Novel of Thank You.” Conjunctions: Tributes 29.1 (1997): 171-98.

“Can’t.” Nerve: Literary Smut. Ed. Genevieve Field and Rufus Griscom. New York: Broadway, 1998. 257-262.

“Eclipse.” Conjunctions: Faces of Desire 48.1 (2007): 383-398.

“An Essay.” The American Poetry Review 24.2 (1995): 26-31.

*“Except Joy: On Aureole.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.3 (1997): 112-27.

*“From AVA.” Conjunctions: Unfinished Business 20.1 (1993): 172-76.

“From The American Woman in the Chinese Hat.” Conjunctions: The Credos Issue 21.1 (1993): 34-51.

*“Notes of a Lyric Artist Working in Prose: A Lifelong Conversation with Myself, Entered Midway.” The American Poetry Review 24.2 (1995): 26-31.

*“One Moment of True Freedom.” Belles Lettres 8.4 (1993): 3-5.

*“Rupture, Verge, and Precipice. Precipice, Verge, and Hurt Not.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.1 (1996): 54-75.

“Sappho Sings the World Ecstatic.” Chick-lit: On the Edge. Ed. Cris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell. Normal, IL: FC2, 1995. 42-51.

“Solstice.” Conjunctions: Twentieth Anniversary Issue 37.1 (2001): 225-228.

*“Surrender.” Reclaiming the Heartland. Ed. Karen Osborne and William Spurlin. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996. 213-18.

“The Bay of Angels.” Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers. Ed. E. J. Levy. New York: Avon, 1995. 320-337.

“The Intercession of the Saints.” Conjunctions: Crossing Over 33.1 (1999): 261-274.

“The Names.” Conjunctions: American Fiction: States of the Art 34.1 (2000): 474-477.

“The Passion of Anne Frank.” Conjunctions: Two Kingdoms 41.1 (2003): 203-216.

*“The Shelter of the Alphabet: Home.” A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. New York: St. Martin’s, 1996. 169-185.

“‘Traveling Light’ from The Bay of Angels.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.3 (1997): 128-43.

“Votive: Chalice from Beauty is Convulsive.” An Anthology of Fetish Fiction. Ed. John Yau. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998. 157-63.

“Votive: Vision.” Ploughshares 23.2/3 (1997): 119-23.

“Young H Saved from Infamy.” Conjunctions: Anatomy of Roads, The Quest Issue 44.1 (2005): 279-284.

“World Book.” Symploke. 12.1/2 (2004) 188-190.

INTERVIEWS

Berila, Beth. “A Correspondence with Carole Maso.” Salt Hill Journal 8 (1999) 107-13.

Cooley, Nicole. “Carole Maso: An Interview.” The American Poetry Review 24.2 (1995): 32-5.

Debord, Matthew. “Carole Maso: From Margins to Center.” Publishers Weekly 245.17 (1998): 38-9.

Elledge, Jim. “Working in the darkness toward the light: an interview with Carole Maso.” American Book Review 17.5 (1996) 5-13.

Evenson, Brian. “Carole Maso.” Rain Taxi Review of Books 2.4 (1997/98).

Gottlieb, Eli. “Carole Maso: A Collage.” Provincetown Arts (1991): 94-7.

Hacket, Joyce. “An Interview with Carole Maso.” Poets and Writers 24.3 (1996): 64-73.

Harris, Victoria Frankel. “Carole Maso: An Introduction and Interpellated Interview.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.3 (1997): 105-11.

Moore, Steven. “An Interview with Carole Maso.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 14.2 (1994): 186-91.

Pearlman, Mickey. “Carole Maso.” Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women. Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1990. 73-78.

REVIEWS

Burkman, Greg. “General Fiction—AVA by Carole Maso.” Booklist 89 (1993): 1570-71.

Cohen, Lisa. “Death Kit—AVA by Carole Maso.” The Village Voice 11 May 1993: 33.

Dorsey, Michael. “More Seductive to a Writer.” American Book Review 16.3 (1994) 17, 28-9.

Harris, Michael. “In Brief: Fiction.” The Los Angeles Times 16 May 1993: 6.

Innes, Charlotte. “Dancing on the Literary Edge.” The Los Angeles Times 23 June 1994: E1.

Lasher, Susan. “From the Erogenous Zone.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 20.1/2 (1995): 146-69.

Levins, Betsy. “The Final Day.” Library Journal 118.16 (1993): 152.

Li, Cherry W. “AVA.” Library Journal 118.6 (1993): 132.

O'Connell, Patty. “Expanding the Boundaries of Literary Fiction.” Belles Lettres (1993): 2, 11.

Osborne, Karen Lee. “Memories of cities, lovers and husbands shape a poetic novel.” The Chicago Tribune 8 Aug. 1993: 6.

Smith, Wendy. “As She Lay Dying.” The New York Times 12 Dec. 1993: 23.

Winters, L. “AVA.” Choice 31.1 (1993): 121.

ARTICLES ON AVA

Harris, Victoria Frankel. “Emancipating the Proclamation: Gender and Genre in AVA.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.3 (1997): 175-85.

Kuebler, Carolyn. “Reading Carole Maso.” Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture 2 (2000). 14 April 2000

Page, Barbara. “Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext.” Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 6.2 (1996) 29.

Quinn, Roseanne Giannini. “‘We were working on an erotic song cycle’: Reading Carole Maso’s AVA as the Poetics of Female Italian-American Cultural and Sexual Identity.” MELUS 26.1 (2001) 91-113.

Silbergleid, Robin Paula. “‘Treblinka, a rather musical word’: Carole Maso’s Post-Holocaust Narrative.” Modern Fiction Studies 53.1 (2007): 1-26.

RESOURCES ON MASO’S OTHER WORK

Beranger, Jean. “Fractures et heritages dans Ghost Dance de Carole Maso.” Annales du Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique Anglophone 20 (1995): 3-28, 233.

Berila, Elizabeth. “The art of change: Experimental writing, cultural activism, and feminist social transformation (Carole Maso, Gloria Anzaldua, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Anna Deavere Smith).” Dissertation Abstracts International 64.1 (2003).

Cooley, Nicole Ruth. “The Avant Garde at the End of the Century: Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57.4 (1996).

Harris, Victoria Frankel, ed. Raymond Queneau/Carole Maso. Spec. issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 17.3 (1997) 104-215.

Karup, Seema. “A Book of Her Own: Postmodern Practices in Contemporary American Women’s Experimental Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts International. 65.8 (2005).

Lanza, Carmela Delia. “Loving the Mother: Feminine Spiritual Spaces in the Writings of Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso.” Dissertation Abstracts International. 61.12 (2001).

Szczerba, Lisa. “The Aesthetics of Self-Representation: Portrayals of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Autobiographical Film, Self-Portraiture and Literary Autobiography.” Dissertation Abstracts International. 65.11 (2005).

Silbergleid, Robin Paula. “‘We perished, each alone’: Loss and Lyricism in Woolf, Maso, and Young.” Virginia Woolf & Communities. Ed. Jeanette McVicker and Laura Davis. Saint Louis: Pace U P, 1999. 57-64.

Stirling, Grant. “Exhausting Heteronarrative: The American In the Chinese Hat.” Modern Fiction Studies 44.4 (1998): 935-58.

---. “Mourning and Metafiction: Carole Maso’s The Art Lover.” Contemporary Literature 39.4 (1998): 586-613.

---. “The Narrativity of Narcissism: Cultural Contexts of Contemporary American Metafiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59.5 (1998): 1576.

Worthington, Marjorie. “Posthumous Posturing: The Subversive Power of Death in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” Studies in the Novel 32.2 (2000): 243-63.

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