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9780941964500

Conjunctions No. 34 : American Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780941964500

  • ISBN10:

    0941964507

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-01
  • Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note 7(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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