On Raymond Carver’s “A Serious Talk”

Carver’s A Serous Talk

Article on Gordon Lish, Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah

 

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New Cover for My Star Trek Study

Same book as the print version, different cover for ebook edition.

An Obnoxious but Curious Review of Expelled from Eden

…on a Salon.com blog. Interesting when someone puts this much time into being so critical on a book published 7 years ago.

William T. Vollmann: An Annotated Bibliography

Ships Dec. 28!

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Cover of New Issue of CRITIQUE

Article on Lish, Carver, Hannah in new CRITIQUE

New issue of Critique: Studies in Contempoary Fiction 52.4 contains my 10,000 word article, “Saying More Without Trying to Say More: On Gordon Lish Re-Shaping the Body of Raymond Carver and Saving Barry Hannah,” which is also, in a slightly expanded version, the second chapter in my overdue study on Lish contracted with Routledge. Did initial research in 2008 at Indiana University; submitted paper in 2009 while in Los Angeles and quickly accepted; published 2011 while I am in New York.

Critical article on House of Leaves in Critique

Critical essay on the footnotes of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves in the new issue of Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Usual slow pace of academic publishing: wrote in late Spring/summer of 2008 in Los Angelkes, took a year to get peer review notes and then acceptance in 2009 while at Indiana Univ., then a year and a half until publication while I am in New York. In between, the journal went from Heldref Publishing to Taylor and Francis/Routledge.

Vollmann Bibliography Publication and Pre-Order

“You got William T. Vollmann eyes!”

My Vollmann Annotated Bibliography has a publication date and is now up at Amazon for pre-order, and Barnes and Noble as well, or direct from the publisher, Roman and Littlefield’s Scarecrow Press.

William T. Vollmann: An Annotated Bibliography

Two years in the compiling — there were many delays for this and that reason — I have at last turned in the annotated bibliography of William Vollmann’s work to The Scarecrow Press (imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, a big and leading independent academic publisher in Maryland). Some production issues need to be dealt with, and the book should be available this fall in a clothbound edition. I would say this concludes my Vollmann Studies, after the other two books, but there are two more essays in the works…