Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology [Paperback]

Joe David Bellamy (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 293 pages
• Publisher: Vintage; 1st edition (July 12, 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394715233
• ISBN-13: 978-0394715230
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,310,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe David Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his new novel Green Freedom is forthcoming from Narrative Library. He is also the author of fifteen other books, including Kindred Spirits, Atomic Love, Literary Luxuries, and The New Fiction. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle and served as Director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. His essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in: The Atlantic, The Nation, Harper's, Narrative, Paris Review, Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and some seventy others. He has taught writing at several colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Contents, August 11, 2011

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This review is from: Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (Paperback)

This is not the only selection of such stories and authors, but it is a good (if dated) one. I used some simpler selections from it when teaching English and Literature in China.

I particularly recommend Vonnegut's "Unready to Wear," Pynchon's "In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job," and Rascoe's "A Lot of Cowboys," although (as LeVar Burton might say) "You don't have to take my word for it."

Joe David Bellamy - Introduction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Unready to Wear
Robert Coover - The Elevator
Rudolph Wurlitzer - Quake
Ursule Molinaro - Chiaroscuro
Joyce Carol Oates - By the River
John Hawkes - The Universal Fears
Leonard Michaels - Manikin
Thomas Pynchon - In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job
John Gardner - Queen Louisa
William H. Gass - Order of Insects
Barton Midwood - One's Ship
Robley Wilson, Jr. - Saying Good-Bye to the President
John Barth - Life-Story
Donald Barthelme - Sentence
Gilbert Sorrentino - The Moon in Its Flight
Ronald Sukenick - What's Your Story
Ishmael Reed - The Loop Garoo Kid
Judith Rascoe - A Lot of Cowboys
John Batki - At the National Festival
John Updike - Under the Microscope(less)