Juncture 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings

by Stapleton, Lara; Gonzalez, Veronica

• ISBN13: 9781887128919
• ISBN10: 1887128913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

After the seventies, after a celebration of "post-modernism" which reflected the experimentation of the times— American fiction returned to a more literal form. Juncture is a book of writers (inter alia Jonathan Lethem, Heather McGowan, Colson Whitehead, Alex Shakar, Carl Hancock Rux, and Ben Marcus) who have skipped a generationa nd embracd literary experimentation: absurdist, stream-of-consciousness, science fiction, based in rhythm with the influence of poetry. This collection reflects not only the jagged rhythms of contemporary American writing but also of American life itself with all its hyphenations, its immigrants and its migrants; their editors are Filipino-American and Mexican-American respectively.
The inclusion of original art and drawings reflects the kinds of cultural hybridization that has driven many of these writers in the first place. Although the inclusion of art is commonplace in America’s leading literary journals, no contemporary literary anthologies have seriously attempted to emulate this tradition.

Author Biography

Lara Stapleton was born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan and lived for some time in Manila, Philippines. She received her M.A. from New York University. She currently is a part-time faculty member in the English Department at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus and is working on her first novel. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. Lara co-edited Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings with Veronica Gonzalez and edited Thirdest World: Stories and Essays by Three Filipino Writers. She is the recipient of the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant for writers and a two-time winner of the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for fiction. She is also the winner of the Columbia Journal fiction prize. The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing is her first collection of short stories.

Veronica Gonzalez Peña is a writer and filmmaker. Her latest film, Pat Steir: Artist, is an intimate and poetic first-person, character driven documentary. She is currently working on a film about Lawrence Weiner.

Table of Contents

Why do they always and what we want	p. 3
Inter ... woven ... lacing ... play	p. 9
Trespassing	p. 15
Kissinger in Egypt	p. 31
Untitled	p. 39
Greedy Greedy	p. 47
Untitled	p. 59
Amelia Toe	p. 61
Weather Report	p. 73
Imeldific	p. 77
Boy Takes a Journey	p. 89
Bella and Donna	p. 93
The Alpha Male	p. 105
Untitled	p. 119
Elmina Blues Opus 2 (Cobalt through Azure)	p. 121
Untitled	p. 127
I Alone and the Hours	p. 129
Bone	p. 137
Crushed	p. 143
Untitled	p. 146
The Dystopianist, Thinking Of His Rival, Is Interrupted By A Knock On The Door	p. 151
Untitled	p. 155
Allegoady	p. 161
Untitled	p. 164
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose	p. 167
Lily	p. 171
Schooling	p. 183
Untitled	p. 186
The New Female Head	p. 205
Untitled	p. 211
Grandmother's Revenge	p. 213
On Morpheus, Relating to Orpheus ...	p. 223
from John Henry Days	p. 237
The Underwear Man	p. 243
Heartbreak City	p. 249
Untitled	p. 251
The Revolution	p. 265
Untitled	p. 271
Immaculate	p. 275
Contributors	p. 285
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