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Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists

2 reviews
Robin Hemley, Michael Martone

Longman, 2003

a lovely guide to the underside of contemporary fiction
This text has a very nice selection of offerings from some writers that you might not ordinarily encounter. As a primer to a more experimental fiction tradition, it works very nicely. Fits well into a fiction workshop, too, as it's not too pricey and packs a lot of bang in their for yr buck.

With Signs & Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction

3 reviews

Invisible Cities Press Llc, 2003

A Bridge Among Jewish Communities
Others have praised the delightful stories in this rich volume, so I won't spend my time repeating--although I may well say that every good word spoken about this anthology is true. What I shall emphasize is how extraordinarily this book bridges various Jewish communities and sensibilities. Contemporary Jewish culture has become extremely fragmented during the last fifty or one hundred years. ...

The Fabulists.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Eamonn Wall

Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1995

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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction

3 reviews
Nalo Hopkinson

Invisible Cities Press, 2000

Publishers' Weekly
From the lush and fertile Caribbean soil springs this collection of island fabulism, a jumble of genres including magical realism, ghost stories, myth and fables, and speculative/science fiction. The mix of well-known contemporary authors (Jamaica Kincaid, Kamau Brathwaite), distinguished writers from an earlier wave of Caribbean fiction (Wilson Harris, Antonio Benitez-Rojo) and many newcomers ...

Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists

6 reviews
Jonathan Carroll, John Crowley, ...

Bard College, 2002

Often delicious Halloween grab bag
It took me about four months to finally track down a copy of this book (which is a literary journal published quarterly by Bard College). It proved well worth the time and effort. I've been a big fan of Peter Straub's since I was totally captivated and transported by his novel GHOST STORY the summer I was 14. Peter Straub has made a name for himself over the years writing dense, deeply textured, ...

Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: An Excursion Into the ...

1 review
Derek Hill

Oldcastle Books, 2008

Entertaining, well written overview
The book exceeded my expectations. It's a brilliant overview of a small group of film artists that may or may not be connected through their language of film. The author gives just the right amount of historical background, delving shortly and poignantly into 60's French cinema and 70's New Hollywood to argue why exactly the re-emergence of semi-independent cinema in the US can rightly be called ...

The Fabulist

55 reviews
Stephen Glass

Simon & Schuster, 2003

A halfway effort either way
So, I'm going to presume that the main selling feature of this book to anyone (including myself) is the author's history and his scandal at the New Republic. I was, of course, interested in the fact that the author presents a self-named character and hoped to get some insight into "his side" of the story, even though the author makes it clear that it's offered as a fictional account. Without ...