Journal of Experimental Fiction 39

Journal of Experimental Fiction 39A general number in the print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. General issues carry no single theme and no tribute subject. They are open submission gatherings of the most ambitious prose the editor found that cycle, which is why the scope tends to run panoramic, style to style and influence to influence. The journal has appeared on a roughly bi annual schedule since 1986, with single author Festschrift volumes for Federman, Barth, and Jaffe

all set in or radiating from a single consciousness moving through New York

and on the nature of genius and madness

The book is built around its narrator

The book sits squarely in the docufiction project Harold Jaffe spent four decades developing: short prose that intersects journal

tired of her pain

and reconsider fiction (and reality)

What are the near-silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse for

Read it after Meanwhile and before Peripeteia in Slow Motion

That borrowing-and-refunctioning is James R

with seven chapters each

She founded Lit Fest Press

Strauss's debut and the 2017 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel