"Saw" is a milestone novel of the seventies. It is the first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus. For the first time what has come to be recognized as a common modern neurosis, astronaut angst, gets full play in the fictional universe. For the first time anywhere in the history of fiction, in one of the most passionate encounters ever written, Eileen mates with a Sphere. Solid geometry finally has a face. The Cylinder is a nemesis, and its terrifying accomplishments roll on like a nightmare for this astronaut. This is a work of science fiction, geometric fiction, irrefutable fact and gourmand fantasies.

Katz, Steve

Children's Books

Alfred.A. Knopf

Product Description New edition of Steve Katz's first collection of short stories, originally published in 1970 by Random House."The most extreme and perfectly executed fictional work to emerge from the Pop Art scene of the late 60s." - 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction by Larry McCaffery"Steve Katz is a witty fantasist who can homogenize pop detritus, campy slang and hallucination to achieve inspired chaos." - New York Times About the Author Steve Katz (1935-2019) was an American post-modern/avant-garde writer. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in 1956 and his master of arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1959. He taught creative writing at the English Language Institute and the University of Maryland Overseas (both in Italy), Cornell University, the University of Iowa, Brooklyn College, Queens College, and Notre Dame University. In 1978, he became Director of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Katz was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1976 and 1981), and a Creative Artists Public Service grant (1976). Has also worked for the Forest Service in Idaho, in a quicksilver mine in Nevada, and on dairy farms in New York State. He started teaching Tai Chi Chuan in1971.At Cornell in the 1950s, Katz encountered Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon, and later roomed at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan where he met Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, John Ashbery, George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Philip Glass, and countless other artists and scenesters of the 1960s and '70s.Literary critic Jerome Klinkowitz wrote that Katz has pushed innovation farther than any of his contemporaries, and W. C. Bamburger dubbed him the most important living American novelist. (43 Views of Steve Katz, Popular Writers of Today, vol. 69, Borgo Press, 2007)

Creamy and Delicious: Eat My Words (In Other Words)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Tough Poets Press

A man removing the skin of a woman and wearing it, a package containing human wrists that spawn human body parts, a trip through Tennessee searching for fictional material, the ubiquitous number 43, are four separate stories that come together to form Moving Parts. You follow the author through several communes, greyhound bus trips, and a Cherokee burial ground, always searching but not finding anything. The obsession of the author with Wendy Appel, the human wrists, the number 43, become his identity. Moving Parts is a unique look into the mind and traveling of the author.

Moving Parts

Contemporary

Fiction Collective 2

Stolen Stories

Short stories and essays concern a man who discovers that he is made of wax, dogs who are able to talk, and like topics

United States

Fiction Collective

Wier & Pouce (New American Fiction)

Sun & Moon Press

Wier and Pouce

Dusty Wier's moral visions come to obsess him so much that a college classmate, E. Pouce, becomes the embodiment of evil.

William Swanson, a lawyer, looks back on his childhood and the problems that developed when one of his friends began dating Florry O'Neill, the former girlfriend of the warlord of the Fanwoods, a rival gang

Florry of Washington Heights (New American Fiction)

William Swanson, a lawyer, looks back on his childhood and the problems that developed when one of his friends began dating Florry O'Neill, the former girlfriend of the warlord of the Fanwoods, a rival gang

Florry Of Washington Heights

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Saw

Creamy and Delicious: Eat My Words (In Other Words)

Moving Parts

Stolen Stories

Stolen Stories

Wier & Pouce (New American Fiction)

Wier and Pouce

Wier & Pouce (New American Fiction)

Florry of Washington Heights (New American Fiction)

Florry Of Washington Heights