The failure issue / editor, John O'Brien ; [guest editor: Joshua Cohen].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Brien, John, editor.

Cohen, Joshua, editor.

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Dalkey Archive Press, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Review of contemporary fiction ; vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 2011)

The review of contemporary fiction, 0276-0045 ; vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 2011)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Failure (Psychology).

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

197 pages, 19 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Review of contemporary fiction : The failure issue

Place of Publication:

Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, ©2011.

Summary:

An issue devoted to failure should be no issue at all. Instead, guest editor Joshua Cohen has failed at failure and assembled an unparalleled group of contributors for this specially themed issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Works by Helen DeWitt, Keith Gessen, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles, and others, alongside a first-time-in-print selection from Gilbert Sorrentinoʹs correspondence, address questions such as: What makes a bad book bad? Why did I get a divorce? Is the Internet a consolation or catastrophe? Should I kill myself and how? And, have we failed literature or has literature failed us? -- Publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

ISBN:

9781564786449

1564786447

OCLC:

902719323