The Dialogue Within

The Dialogue WithinThe Dialogue Within is a JEF general issue anthology of experimental and innovative fiction, gathering thirty five writers under one cover. JEF has been running anthologies of this kind for forty years. Belighted Fiction (JEF #4), A Way with It!, the numbered issues #35, #39, #50, Offbeat Quirky, Polyphony (#98), and the single author Festschrifts for Raymond Federman, John Barth, and Harold Jaffe are the lineage. The model came from Federman, who

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a thematic anthology edited by Eckhard Gerdes

Gerdes is because he writes

then turns back

illustrated throughout with photographs by contemporary makers

but a mental disorder they share repeatedly forces them to the depths of despair

The unreliable narrator lashes out against aliens

Writing Pictures: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism 1983–2012 (2013) gathers thirty years of James R

from the Kama Sutra to Fifty Shades of Grey

The debut is Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics

and now this one

the narrator drifts through an era of fascist violence and secession