Journal of Experimental Fiction 34: Foremost Fiction: A Report from the Front Lines

Journal of Experimental Fiction 34: Foremost Fiction: A Report from the Front LinesThis is a general number in JEF's print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes and themed A Report from the Front Lines. The subtitle is the editorial stance. We treat experimental prose as dispatches from where the form is being tested, not as a settled genre to be sampled. Gerdes founded the journal in 1986 alongside Depth Charge Press, and the bi annual general issues are its backbone between the single author Festschrift volumes built around Federman,

Michael Todd Steffen read it around a figure of the silent pendulum and a return to full circle — the shape Emorine's preoccupations tend to take across French poetry and fiction since 1982: the divided self

Di Leo and Warren Motte

and the dreams and nightmares that connect them

"if you're looking for conventions

anti-art strategies — appropriation

a Festschrift edited by Eckhard Gerdes and built around the work of John Barth

and Tom’s Sawyer’s Jackson Island

inner speech

and the conversation between immigrant interior and Manhattan exterior is what the prose is

reads it as a hilarious scripto-visual Dadaist-Derridean quest to solve the impossible question

The issue carries that as its declared theme

Misunderstanding is the working condition: phrases get carried across without the world that produced them