My back pages : reviews and essays / Steven Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Steven, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Physical Description:

800 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Expanded paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Zerogram Press, 2018.

Summary:

For four decades Steven Moore championed innovative fiction in dozens of essays and hundreds of book reviews, most of which have been gathered here to offer a panoramic view of modern fiction, ranging from well-known authors like Barth and Pynchon to lesser-known but deserving ones, many published by small presses. Moore also reviews dozens of critical studies of this fiction, and takes side trips into rock music and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For this paperback edition, a recent essay on a forgotten jazz Age novelist has been added. Book jacket.

Contents:

Reviews

Héctor Abad 25

Avant-Pop Fiction 26

Félix de Azua 29

Nicholson Baker 30

Nicola Barker 31

Djuna Barnes 33

John Barth 37

Donald Barthelme 42

Jonathan Baumbach 45

Anne Beattie 47

The Beats and Their Critics 49

Saul Bellow 73

Brooke Bergan 75

R. M. Berry 76

Francesca Lia Block 79

Roberto Bolano 83

Greg Boyd 85

Richard Brautigan 87

Anthony Burgess 89

Gabrielle Burton 91

Michel Butor 93

Mary-Butts 95

Roberto Calasso 100

Julieta Campos 102

Mary Caponegro 104

dbm Carson 108

Cydney Chadwick 110

John Colapinto 111

Jeffery Conway, Lynn Crosbie, and David Trinidad 113

Martha Cooley 115

Robert Coover 117

Stanley G. Crawford 121

Cyberpunk Fiction 122

Susan Daitch 124

Mark Z. Danielewski 126

Dame Darcy 132

Guy Davenport, Robert Kelly, and Pamela Zoline 134

Samuel R. Delany 136

Don DeLillo 138

Helen DeWitt 139

Stephen Dixon 141

Rikki Ducomet 146

Marguerite Duras 147

Lawrence Durrell 149

Lucinda Kbersole 155

Janice Eidus 157

Stanley Elkin 158

Percival Everett 164

Ronald Firbank and Alan Holling-hurst 167

F. Scott Fitzgerald 169

Richard Ford 172

James Frey 174

William Gaddis 176

William H. Cass 181

Karen Elizabeth Gordon 186

Hervé Guibert 190

Elizabeth Hand 191

Donald Harington 193

Joseph Heller 195

Andrew Holleran 197

Michel Houellebecq 201

Robert Irwin 203

Henry James 205

Charles Johnson 207

Camden Joy 209

James Joyce 211

Norma Kassirer 213

Ken Kesey 214

Ivan Klíma 216

Reif Larsen 218

Brad Leithauser 221

Antonio Lobo Antunes 223

Malcolm Lowry 225

Norman Mailer 227

Yarn Martel 230

Carole Maso 233

Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, and Oulipo 235

James McCourt 239

Joseph McElroy 243

Jim Morrison 249

Bradford Morrow 252

Mo Yan 253

Haruki Murakami 259

Anaï's Nin and Pornography 261

Lawrence Norfolk 263

Joyce Carol Oates 265

David Peace 267

Ezra Pound 270

Dawn Powell 276

Richard Powers 277

Caroline Preston 284

Thomas Pynchon 286

Raymond Queneau 296

Pascal Quignard 297

Mane Redonnet 298

Julián Ríos 299

Raymond Roussel 302

Severo Sarduy 303

Arno Schmidt 306

John A. Scott 311

Will Self 312

Lee Siegel 314

Elizabeth Smart 318

Ilan Stavans 319

Gilbert Sorrentino 320

Edla van Steen 322

D. N. Stuefloten 323

Alexander Theroux 324

Hunter S. Thompson 326

Steve Tomasula 329

Frederic Tuten 332

John Updike 333

William T. Vollmann 335

Marek Waldorf 355

David Foster Wallace 357

Paul West 365

Robin Williamson 372

Jeanette Winterson 373

P. G. Wodehouse 375

Richard Wright 376

Stephen Wright 378

Rudolph Wurlitzer 379

Marguerite Young 380

Miscellaneous Nonfiction

The Self-Apparent Word and Literary Subversions / Jerome Klinkowitz Klinkowitz, Jerome 383

Anything Can Happen / Tom LeClair LeClair, Tom, Larry McCaffery, eds., eds., Larry McCaffery, 385

The Exploded Form / James M. Mellard Mellard, James M. 386

The Dramaturgy of Style / Michael Stephens Stephens, Michael 387

The Art of Excess, and John Kuehl, Alternate Worlds / Tom LeClair LeClair, Tom 389

Writers in Conversation 390

Joseph Dewey, In a Dark Time 392

Brian McHale, Constructing Postmodernism 392

Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage 393

David Bergman, ed., Camp Grounds 394

Love's Litany, and Claude J. Summers, ed., The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage / Kevin Kopelson Kopelson, Kevin 395

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities / Jan Bondeson Bondeson, Jan 396

Keeping Literary Company, and Richard Elman, Name-dropping / Jerome Klinkowitz Klinkowitz, Jerome 398

Feeling as a Foreign Language / Alice Fulton Fulton, Alice 400

To Rabbit, with Love and Squalor, and Denis Donoghue, Words Alone / Anne Roiphe Roiphe, Anne 401

Layers of Slayage: Buffy as Text 403

American Fictions, 1980-2000 / Frederick R. Karl Karl, Frederick R. 406

Loneliness as a Way of Life / Thomas Dumm Dumm, Thomas 408

Psychedelia and Other Colours / Rob Chapman Chapman, Rob 410

Essays

Part 1 William Gaddis and Friends

Chronological Difficulties in the Novels of William Gaddis 415

"Parallel, Not Series": Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis 427

Peer Gynt and The Recognitions 442

Chandler Brossard: Bold Saboteur 452

The Legend of Alan Ansen 486

David Markson and the Art of Allusion 506

Jack Green and Book Reviewing in America 524

A Modernist Muse / Sheri Martinelli Martinelli, Sheri 535

Three Memorials / William Gaddis Gaddis, William

Remembering Mr. Gaddis 567

The Recognitions, Then and Now 569

William Gaddis: The Nobility of Failure 574

Part 2 Significant Others

Five Notes on Finnegans Wake 579

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Poor Man's Remembrance of Things Past 583

Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat and the Tradition of Learned Wit 595

Edward Dahlberg: An Introduction 607

Alexander Theroux: An Introduction 611

The Plays of Ronald Firbank 632

Brigid Brophy: A Brief Introduction 638

The Stylish Fiction of W. M. Spaekman 641

A New Language for Desire: Carole Maso's Aureole 660

Paper Flowers: Richard Brautigan's Poetry 668

The First Draft Version of infinite Jest 684

In Memoriam David Foster Wallace 713

Of Cause and Consequence 715

Beowulf and Postmodernism 717

Maximalism Down Argentine Way: Adam Buenosayres 720

The Avant-Pop Novels of J. P. McEvoy 725

Part 3 Personal Matters

Nympholepsy 761

Rethinking the History of the Novel 773.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1557134383

9781557134387

OCLC:

990322644