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