The book includes interviews with fifteen writers: Kathy Acker, David Antin, Lydia Davis, Kenneth Gangemi, Marianne Hauser, Lyn Hejinian, Harold Jaffe, Robert Kelley, Richard Kostellanetz, Mark Leyner, Clarence Major, Derek Pell, Gerald Vizenor, and William T. Vollmann.
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Editorial Reviews
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In 1987 Larry McCaffery began interview writers "working outside the usual conventions of traditional realism (usually far outside) who had produced works I judged to be of superior quality ." In Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors he explores "what the term `fiction' means at this point, what its boundary lines are, how and where these lines have expanded or contracted, and for what reasons." Kathy Acker, Kenneth Gangemi, Robert Kelly, Richard Kostelanetz and Clarence Major are among the 14 interviewed. McCaffrey prefaces each interview with a biographical sketch, selected author bibliography and list of interviews and articles about the subject. (Univ. of Pennsylvania, $19.95 ISBN 0-8122-1442-0; cloth $39.95 -3201-1)
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"McCaffery is the only critic who not only has championed postmodern, innovative, experimental fiction (or whatever it was called) but also has never given up on it. Whatever form fiction has taken, from the preposterously self-reflexive to the vociferously blasphemous, from avant-garde to cyberpunk to avant pop, McCaffery has always been there, explaining, digesting, asking questions. All this is obvious in Some Other Frequency, which offers both general readers and specialists the best sense of the current contours and li its of contemporary fiction."—Raymond Federman
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Like the dissolving, schizophrenic "I's" that speak to us from Kathy Acker's novels, the "real" Kathy Acker is likely to strike people as a bundle of contradictory parts that combine to create the jagged unity of a Rauschenberg collage: part streetwise gutter snipe, radical feminist critic, and punk artist, and part vulnerable woman on the verge of being torn apart by rapacious phallic society; part cynic, and part visionary idealist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Kathy Acker, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Clarence Major, David Antin, Lyn Hejinian, San Diego, Doktor Bey, Fiction Collective, Gerald Vizenor, Such Was the Season, Black Sparrow Press, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Native American, The Interceptor Pilot, American Book Review, Don Quixote, Fiction International, Mark Leyner, The Talking Room, Break It Down, The Ice-Shirt, Transparent Tree, United States New!
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Like the dissolving, schizophrenic "I's" that speak to us from Kathy Acker's novels, the "real" Kathy Acker is likely to strike people as a bundle of contradictory parts that combine to create the jagged unity of a Rauschenberg collage: part streetwise gutter snipe, radical feminist critic, and punk artist, and part vulnerable woman on the verge of being torn apart by rapacious phallic society; part cynic, and part visionary idealist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guerrilla writing, dense dot, talk pieces, monkey king Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kathy Acker, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Clarence Major, David Antin, Lyn Hejinian, San Diego, Doktor Bey, Fiction Collective, Gerald Vizenor, Such Was the Season, Black Sparrow Press, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Native American, The Interceptor Pilot, American Book Review, Don Quixote, Fiction International, Mark Leyner, The Talking Room, Break It Down, The Ice-Shirt, Transparent Tree, United States New!
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- My Life (Green Integer Books, 39) by Lyn Hejinian on 8 pages
- Reflex and Bone Structure by Clarence Major on 5 pages
- Prince Ishmael (Sun & Moon Classics) by Marianne Hauser on 5 pages
- Assassination Rhapsody (Semiotext) by Derek Pell on 5 pages
- Break It Down (High Risk Books) by Lydia Davis on 5 pages
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- Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature by Alison Russell in Back Matter
- Teaching Rhetorica: Theory, Pedagogy, Practice by Kate Ronald in Back Matter
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