Conjunctions No. 34 : American... | Buy

Which writers will define the new century of American literary fiction? For the year 2000, Conjunctions undertakes to answer this question with an ambitious map of the contemporary literary landscape. The first of a two-volume anthology, Conjunctions:34, American Fiction: States of the Art, will complement a companion volume, coming out in fall 2000, Conjunctions:35, American Poetry: States of the Art, in charting the coordinates of innovative American letters.

Editor's Note

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(2)

Two Stories

9

(3)

John Edgar Wideman

Ashes Ashes We All Fall Down

12

(13)

Mary Caponegro

Mexico Next Right

25

(4)

Sandra Cisneros

The Dark

29

(11)

Paul West

Mrs. Hollingsworth's List

40

(15)

Padgett Powell

Inishmurray

55

(6)

Maureen Howard

Accident Report

61

(5)

Paul Auster

From Versailles

66

(3)

Kathryn Davis

Swan Lake

69

(24)

Steve Erickson

The Sleepwalker

93

(14)

William T. Vollmann

Laura Warholic

107

(13)

Alexander Theroux

El Hombre Pollack (with a translation from Spanish by Edith Grossman)

120

(8)

Mayra Montero

Dies Irae

128

(9)

Edwidge Danticat

The Battlefields of Shiraz

137

(7)

Rikki Ducornet

Fever Dreams: A Geography of Mind

144

(13)

Dale Peck

Pan's Fair Throng

157

(10)

Rick Moody

Four Dark Tales

167

(4)

Joyce Carol Oates

A Dialogue

171

(18)

Richard Powers

Bradford Morrow

Introduction to a Book Titled Blue Sevens, or Protect Yourself From Witchcraft While You Get Rich

189

(7)

Leslie Marmon Silko

The Big-Breasted Pilgrim

196

(36)

Ann Beattie

Please Remain Calm

232

(7)

A.M. Homes

Lost and Legendary Aviators

239

(6)

Paul LaFarge

Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock

245

(26)

Robert Coover

Our Father

271

(11)

Julia Alvarez

Wake

282

(8)

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Happy Memories

290

(3)

Lydia Davis

In Camera

293

(49)

William H. Gass

An Interview by Bradford Morrow

342

(11)

Joanna Scott

Requiem for a Prodigcal Son

353

(4)

Jessica Hagedorn

The Technology of Silence

357

(11)

Ben Marcus

Stalingrad

368

(22)

Christopher Sorrentino

Calling the Hour

390

(2)

Brian Evenson

In the Lightly Moderate Vivid Deep

392

(3)

Diane Williams

Joy of Eating

395

(4)

Matthew Derby

My Grandmother's Tale of How the Iguana Got Her Wrinkles, or The True Tale of El Dorado

399

(19)

Robert Antoni

Overland

418

(14)

Pamela Ryder

Obituary

432

(9)

Han Ong

The Moor

441

(7)

Russell Banks

Flight of the Swan

448

(8)

Rosario Ferre

Uitzilintzin, Uitzilintzin: Love Medicine for Sale

456

(3)

Ana Castillo

The Ecstasy of Looking: Six Proofs

459

(5)

David Shields

Finitude: From the Permanent Collection

464

(10)

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Names

474

(4)

Carole Maso

Notes on Contributors

478

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