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In The Slipstream: An Fc2 Reader
In the last quarter century, the marketplace for serious fiction has been steadily co-opted by corporations, multinationals, and now publishing megaconglomerates that know no national boundaries. In this abyss, FC2 - one of the most unlikely projects in the history of American publishing, run by writers for writers - has created an enduring place for the pure devilish fun of play and change. Along the way, FC2 has introduced readers to the works of Mark Layner, Russell Banks, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick, Eurudice, Gerald Vizenor and many more.
Table of Contents
Who do they think they are? : a personal history of the Fiction Collective / Jonathan Baumbach — Introduction / Ronald Sukenick & Curtiw White — Cyrano of the regiment from Take it or leave it / Raymond Federman — Death of the band from Stolen stories / Steve Katz — He had one of those arooooooga horns from I smell Esther Williams / Mark Leyner — from The talking room / Marianne Hauser — Out of Chemnitz's biography II (Chemnitz gets raped) from Three blones and death / Yuriy Tarnawsky — In flight from Crash-landing / Peter Spielberg — from Holy smoke / Fanny Howe — from Broadway melody / Robert Steiner — Obo Island from Griever: an American monkey king in China / Gerald Vizenor — The gourmand from When things get back to normal / Constance Pierce — Our perfect partners from Modern romances / Judy Lopatin — from Emergency exit / Clarence Major — from S&M / Jeffrey DeShell — In which Francesco Melzi discovers fiction from Leonardo's horse / R.M. Berry — from The alphabet man / Richard Grossman — from The lost scrapbook / Evan Dara — from f/32 / Eurudice — from The charnal imp / Alan Singer — Metamorphosis no. 80 : the pyramid builder from Uncle Ovid's exercise book / Don Webb — from Eve's longing / Deborah McKay — from Mabel in her twenties / Rosaire Appel — Between sighs from Revelation countdown / Cris Mazza — Jody and Annie on tv from New noir / John Shirley — Village tripping from The Kafka chronicles / Mark Amerika — from Hogg / Samuel Delany — Stil from Distorture / Rob Hardin — from The Mexico trilogy / D.N. Stuefloten — from Damned right / Bayard Johnson — More mental from Straight outta Compton / Ricardo Cortez Cruz — Broken spell from Trigger dance / Diane Glancy.
Table of Contents
Who do they think they are? : a personal history of the Fiction Collective / Jonathan Baumbach — Introduction / Ronald Sukenick & Curtiw White — Cyrano of the regiment from Take it or leave it / Raymond Federman — Death of the band from Stolen stories / Steve Katz — He had one of those arooooooga horns from I smell Esther Williams / Mark Leyner — from The talking room / Marianne Hauser — Out of Chemnitz's biography II (Chemnitz gets raped) from Three blones and death / Yuriy Tarnawsky — In flight from Crash-landing / Peter Spielberg — from Holy smoke / Fanny Howe — from Broadway melody / Robert Steiner — Obo Island from Griever: an American monkey king in China / Gerald Vizenor — The gourmand from When things get back to normal / Constance Pierce — Our perfect partners from Modern romances / Judy Lopatin — from Emergency exit / Clarence Major — from S&M / Jeffrey DeShell — In which Francesco Melzi discovers fiction from Leonardo's horse / R.M. Berry — from The alphabet man / Richard Grossman — from The lost scrapbook / Evan Dara — from f/32 / Eurudice — from The charnal imp / Alan Singer — Metamorphosis no. 80 : the pyramid builder from Uncle Ovid's exercise book / Don Webb — from Eve's longing / Deborah McKay — from Mabel in her twenties / Rosaire Appel — Between sighs from Revelation countdown / Cris Mazza — Jody and Annie on tv from New noir / John Shirley — Village tripping from The Kafka chronicles / Mark Amerika — from Hogg / Samuel Delany — Stil from Distorture / Rob Hardin — from The Mexico trilogy / D.N. Stuefloten — from Damned right / Bayard Johnson — More mental from Straight outta Compton / Ricardo Cortez Cruz — Broken spell from Trigger dance / Diane Glancy.
410 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
Ronald Sukenick
32 books32 followersRonald Sukenick was an American writer and literary theorist.
Sukenick studied at Cornell University, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Wallace Stevens, at Brandeis University.
After Roland Barthes announced the "death of the author", Sukenick carried the metaphor even further in "the death of the novel". He drew up a list of what is missing: reality doesn't exist, nor time or personality. He was widely recognized as a controversial writer who, frequently humorously, questioned and rejected the conventions of traditional fiction-writing. In novels, short stories, literary criticism and history, he often used himself, family members or friends as characters, sometimes quoting them in tape-recorded conversations. He did stints as writer in residence at Cornell University, the University of California, Irvine, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. But his books were never best-sellers. Sukenick once commented that he had “only forty fans, but they’re all fanatics.”
He referred to his career as a university professor as his "day job". He taught at Brandeis University, Hofstra University, City College of the City University of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Cornell University, the State University of New York (Buffalo), and l'Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France. His most prolonged teaching career was at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was professor of English from 1975-1999.
He was actively committed to publishing and promoting the writing of other unconventional writers. He was founder and publisher of American Book Review, and a founder of The Fiction Collective (now Fiction Collective Two). Sukenick was chairman of the Coordinating Council of Little magazines, and on the executive council of the Modern Language Association and the National Book Critics Circle.
Sukenick studied at Cornell University, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Wallace Stevens, at Brandeis University.
After Roland Barthes announced the "death of the author", Sukenick carried the metaphor even further in "the death of the novel". He drew up a list of what is missing: reality doesn't exist, nor time or personality. He was widely recognized as a controversial writer who, frequently humorously, questioned and rejected the conventions of traditional fiction-writing. In novels, short stories, literary criticism and history, he often used himself, family members or friends as characters, sometimes quoting them in tape-recorded conversations. He did stints as writer in residence at Cornell University, the University of California, Irvine, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. But his books were never best-sellers. Sukenick once commented that he had “only forty fans, but they’re all fanatics.”
He referred to his career as a university professor as his "day job". He taught at Brandeis University, Hofstra University, City College of the City University of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Cornell University, the State University of New York (Buffalo), and l'Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France. His most prolonged teaching career was at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was professor of English from 1975-1999.
He was actively committed to publishing and promoting the writing of other unconventional writers. He was founder and publisher of American Book Review, and a founder of The Fiction Collective (now Fiction Collective Two). Sukenick was chairman of the Coordinating Council of Little magazines, and on the executive council of the Modern Language Association and the National Book Critics Circle.
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February 11, 2014
Oh dear. Seems I do not like sloppily written prose which seems to think detailed and graphic descriptions of violence and sex are the height of the cutting edge. I have no problem with the subject matter, nor am I remotely prudish, however when the sole point of your writing is to be "shocking" by repeatedly using the word "cunt", you aint gonna impress me none. Rabelais was cruder and funnier than you will ever be.
This is a little harsh, of course, and ignores some of the earlier pieces, which weren't half bad, but to be honest I can't be bothered to write anything more.
This is a little harsh, of course, and ignores some of the earlier pieces, which weren't half bad, but to be honest I can't be bothered to write anything more.
June 20, 2009
FC2 publishes some of my favorite books. Good for Ronald Sukenick for gathering them together.
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