The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Rick Moody / Ann Quin / Silas Flannery

• Joseph Dewey, "Rick Moody"
  
• Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard, "Ann Quin"
• Zachary Hammerman, Ed., "Casebook Study of Silas Flannery"
• Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS

• Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo
• Nowhere Man, by Aleksandar Hemon
• Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker and "Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective" and "The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S.," by Kathy Acker
• Actress in the House, by Joseph McElroy
• Gazelle, by Rikki Ducornet
• Trojçe poms´cimy (Get Even for Troy), by Robert Ostaszewski
• This Is Not It, by Lynne Tillman
• The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster
• Repetition, by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard
• Povesti Poslednikh Dnei (Tales of Recent Days), by Oleg Pavlov
• A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
• All Night Movie, by Alicia Borinsky, translated by Cola Franzen with the author
• Happily, Slowly and The Beginner, by Lyn Hejinian
• Shroud, by John Banville
• Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
• Vanameeste näppaja (Snatcher of Old Men), by Mehis Heinsaar
• Tourmaline, by Joanna Scott
• Somersault, by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Philip Gabriel
• The Man of Feeling, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
• Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings by Joseph Heller, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker
• Matin brun (Brown Morning), by Franck Pavloff
• The Inquisitors’ Manual, by António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith
• Great Neck, by Jay Cantor
• The Few Things I Know about Glafkos Thrassakis, by Vassilis Vassilikos, translated by Karen Emmerich
• Sahib, by Nenad Velickovic´
• The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director’s Cut, by Robert Coover
• The Commissariat of Enlightenment, by Ken Kalfus
• Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved a City, by Edward Carey
• My Big Apartment and A Cleaning Woman, by Christian Oster
• Dark Property, by Brian Evenson
• One Score More: The Second Twenty Years of Burning Deck, 1982-2002, edited by Alison Bundy, Keith Waldrop, and Rosmarie Waldrop
• The Buzzing, by Jim Knipfel
• A Structure Opera, by Bruce Fleming
• 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, by Stewart Home
• "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" and "Weekend in Mustara," by Curt Leviant
• Goldberg: Variations, by Gabriel Josipovici
• The Trip to Bordeaux, by Ludwig Harig, translated by Susan Bernofsky
• Frigid Tales, by Pedro de Jesús, translated by Dick Cluster
• The Half-Mammals of Dixie, by George Singleton
• Gone, by Elisabeth Sheffield
• Shadow without a Name, by Ignacio Padilla, translated by Peter Bush and Anne McLean
• Medea and Her Children, by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Arch Tait
• Southern Excursions: Views on Southern Letters in My Time, by George Garrett, edited by James Conrad McKinley
• Desert Burial, by Brian Littlefair
• Creature of a Day, by Juan Tovar, translated by Leland H. Chambers
• The Writer, by Zoran Zivkovic´, translated by Alice Copple-Tosic
• An Evening at the Club, by Christian Gailly, translated by Susan Fairfield
• News about People You Know, by Robert Phillips
• Officer Friendly and Other Stories, by Lewis Robinson
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, by Mark Dunn
• Instant Karma, by Mark Swartz
• The Amount to Carry, by Carter Scholz
• Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings, by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin
• Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo, by Carole Maso
• Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, by Rosmarie Waldrop
• UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s "Underworld," edited by Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving Malin
• 2002: A Palindrome Story in 2002 Words, by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, illustrated by Shelley Jackson