The premier international source for literature at the forefront, The Journal of Experimental Fiction has done it again! It has collected writing by some of the bravest, most innovative and thought-provoking, most emotive authors working today. A special section features a previously unpublished essay by John Barth presented as a lecture at Macon State College and 17 narrative responses written by students. Other selections include fiction by Steven Kedrowski, Amina Memory Cain, Daniel Borzutzky, Antoinette Nora Claypoole, Lee Groban, Persis Gerdes, Todd Smith , and Kari Edwards. Famous works of experimental fiction are parodied by Thomas McCain, Dawn Hamilton and Eckhard Gerdes. Also featured are a critical essay by Tim Miller and a review of John Barth's new novel, "Coming Soon!!!" This anthology is a welcome and vital addition to the great literature of our age!

John Barth, Bearded Bards & Splitting Hairs: The Journal of Experimental Fiction Seventeen

Literature & Fiction

Gerdes, Eckhard

Essays & Correspondence

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The Laugh That Laughs at the Laugh: Writing from and about the Pen Man, Raymond Federman: Journal of Experimental Fiction 23

Not only is this volume in the Journal of Experimental Fiction series a tribute to great French-American novelist and Holocaust survivor Raymond Federman by more than friends, colleagues, and admirers, including Jerome Klinkowitz, Charles Bernstein, Ronald Sukenick, Larry McCaffery, Doug Rice, Lance Olsen, and Mark Amerika, to name just a few, but it also features unpublished fiction by Raymond Federman himself, from early work during his years as a student at Columbia University to a long excerpt from his current novel-in-progress. For those unfamiliar with the work of Raymond Federman, this anthology will be a wonderful and fun introduction to this incredible and important figure in contemporary fiction. For those already familar with Raymond Federman's work, this is an invaluable addition to the body of scholarship published on his work, and is furthermore a great testament to how deeply his work has influenced other major figures in contemporary literature.

The Laugh that Laughs at the Laugh: Writing from and about the Pen Man, Raymond Federman: Journal of Experimental Fiction 23

United States

Fiction. "Funny, mischievous, riotously re-Joycean, HUGH MOORE's protagonists are ultimately language and form themselves, its plot how they continuously surprise and delight while showing us how we're all filled with others trying to write our books, and how real love arrives, both inside and outside word worlds, not through work, but play"—Lance Olsen.

Hugh Moore

Civil Coping Mechanisms

Marco & Iarlaith: A Novel in Flash Fictions

Literary

BLACK SCAT BOOKS

About the Author Eckhard Gerdes has published books of poetry, drama, and sixteen novels, including White Bungalows (Dirt Heart Pharmacy Press, 2015) and My Landlady the Lobotomist (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2008). He has won an &NOW Award, the Richard Pike Bissell Award, been a finalist for the Starcher one and the Blatt awards, and was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year. His most recent books include a tongue-in-cheek work of creative nonfiction, How to Read (Guide Dog Books, 2014); a short novel titled Marco & Iarlaith: A Novel in Flash Fictions (Black Scat Books, 2018); and another short novel, The Pissers' Theatre (Black Scat Books, 2021).He is also editor and publisher of The Journal of Experimental Fiction and its associated imprint JEF Books. He lives near Chicago and has three children and five grandchildren. Product Description "Have you seen whales frolicking in the sea—giant masses of shiny wet flesh gracefully rising up into the air and then just as gracefully plunging back into the water? They do it not to catch flies as trout do, food always on their tiny minds, but to delight at their ability to do it, delight at being whales. I rise and plunge, says the whale, therefore I am! And so it is with Eckhard Gerdes in his massive, whale tale kind of a book, The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot—he is not after seducing a reader or two with a suspenseful story into purchasing his book but to exercise the writer in himself, delight at his ability to use language. Gerdes is because he writes." -- Yuriy Tarnawsky Book Description Eckhard Gerdes's biggest work, his sixteenth published novel

The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot

JEF Books/Depth Charge Publishing

Journal Of Experimental Fiction 34

Genre Fiction

Depth Charge

An anthology of some of the most innovative fiction being published in the world today.

Journal of Experimental Fiction 35

Contemporary

Three Psychedelic Novellas

Short Stories & Anthologies

Enigmatic Ink

My Landlady the Lobotomist

The brains of past tenants line the shelves of my boarding house, soaking in a mysterious elixir. I'm pretty sure something has infected my gray matter; an epic battle between Godzilla and the divine She-Sus rages in my hypothalamus. In my pituatary gland a dragonfly woos an electric blue angelfish and all the while brutal prog steampunk echoes through my cerebrum. One more slip-up and the landlady might just add my frontal lobe to her collection.

Humor & Satire

Raw Dog Screaming Pr

The brains of past tenants line the shelves of my boarding house, soaking in a mysterious elixir. I'm pretty sure something has infected my gray matter; an epic battle between Godzilla and the divine She-Sus rages in my hypothalamus. In my pituatary gland a dragonfly woos an electric blue angelfish and all the while brutal prog steampunk echoes through my cerebrum. One more slip-up and the landlady might just add my frontal lobe to her collection.

Raw Dog Screaming Press

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