Modern fiction writers, including John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Toni Morrison, Diane Johnson, Stanley Elkin, and E.L. Doctorow, talk about their careers, influences, and works

Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists

LeClair, Tom

McCaffery, Larry

Literature & Fiction

University of Illinois Press

Modern fiction writers, including John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Toni Morrison, Diane Johnson, Stanley Elkin, and E.L. Doctorow, talk about their careers, influences, and works

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists

United States

"In The Loop" is the first study of Don DeLillo, one of America's most importatnt novelists. While providing an overview of DeLillo's career and a book-by-book analysis of his eight novels, Tom LeClair constructs (and placess DeLillo's fiction within) a new critical category - the systems novel. Like other "systems novelists" - William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, and Robert Coover - DeLillo employs the new scientific paradigm of "systems theory" as a basis for his novelistic analyses of human survival in various spheres, from the nuclear family to that encompassing reciprocal loop, the ecosystem, that is DeLillo's fundamental model of value.

In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel

History & Criticism

The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Well-Founded Fear

Genre Fiction

Olin Frederick Inc

Harpooning Donald Trump is the first substantial literary response to President Trump. In this collection of ten essays—written in controlled outrage—Tom LeClair recounts his weeks of solitary protests at Trump Tower and discusses literary works that give us a deep comprehension of Trump the man and cultural phenomenon. Although Harpooning Donald Trump is a collection, it’s also a personal narrative: of an aged and discouraged novelist rejuvenated by street protest that leads him back to literary writing, to profound writers of the past and to promising writers of the future who can help readers understand and, perhaps, undermine the demagogue.

Harpooning Donald Trump: A Novelist's Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Mediacs

Passing On

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Greekworks.Com Inc

Thomas Bond of Middletown, Ohio, has built a cros-country empire of mostly African American truck drivers who roam the nation's heartland selling off the failed products of its commerce. Aging and ailing, Bond wants to see his life's work continue, but his children are uninterested and force him into desperate measures and unexpected revelations about the family's past. When its attempts to find a succesor fail, Bond imagines a project that sets off further family conflict and surprising recognitions.

The Liquidators

Contemporary

Passing Through is a stand-alone novel that completes the trilogy begun with Passing Off and Passing On. Former pro basketball player, tour guide, and memoirist, Michael Keever is recruited to teach Creative Non-Fiction at Queen City College. Having faked his qualifications, Keever at-tempts to deceive his family, students, colleagues, admin-istrators, and friends with increasingly comic schemes. When he receives anonymous emails that accuse him of fictionalizing his earlier autobiographies, Keever needs to discover the author of the emails. His absurd detection boomerangs and his troubles multiply, ultimately forcing him into a plot of imposture that takes him to Algeria and puts both his new life as an academic and his life itself in jeopardy. Passing Through resembles a Rabbit novel rewritten by the Richard Russo of Straight Man or the Don DeLillo of White Noise. "No game, no gain" is Keever's motto. Le-Clair fools with academic protocols, plays with conventions of travel writing and autobiography, and ultimately plays against the academically trained reader with unreliable stories nested within probable fabrications within possible inventions. Humorous in its bumbling hero and fumbled plots, Passing Through also has a satiric edge in its presentation of a private college as a drive-through business.

Passing Through: A Novel

Drinian Press

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Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists

In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel

The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction

The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction

Well-Founded Fear

Harpooning Donald Trump: A Novelist's Essays

Passing On

The Liquidators

Passing Through: A Novel