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Blood and Volts

Edison, Tesla, and the Electric Chair Th. Metzger Autonomedia ($12) by Paul D. Dickinson Blood and Volts is an overpowering tale that illuminates the American fascination with progress, technology, wealth, justice, and death. Metzger shows us, with an easy flowing style, an unflinching view of the development of the electric chair and the absurd scene […]

253 or Tube Theater

A Novel for the Internet about London Underground in Seven Cars and a Crash Written, encoded, and uploaded by Geoff Ryman http://www.ryman-novel.com/ by Rudi Dornemann This review is not about the future of the novel; no paeans here to the coming golden age of hyperfiction, when the shackles of cellulose and linearity will be cast […]

A Pack of Lies

Gilbert Sorrentino Dalkey Archive Press ($21.95) by Rick Henry Pack of Lies brings under the same cover three of Sorrentino's earlier novels: Odd Number (1985), Rose Theatre (1987), and Misterioso (1989). The rebinding of these books offers a slight variation on many of Sorrentino's own concerns about the status of the original and the variant, […]

Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall 1996 (#4)

INTERVIEWS Stephen Dixon interviewed by Kelly Everding and Eric Lorberer FEATURES Press Profile: Burning Deck by Charles Alexander Booksellers' Favorites Online: Lance Olsen interviewed by Trevor Dodge Performance: Amiri Baraka by Mark Aamot FICTION REVIEWS Paris Out of Hand    Karen Elizabeth Gordon    by Steven Moore The Film Explainer    Gert Hoffmann    by Rick Henry   Spleen   and Fugue   […]

Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1996 (#3)

INTERVIEWS Honor Moore interviewed by Carolyn Kuebler FEATURES First Annual Firecracker Alternative Book Awards The Letters of Wanda Tinasky by Steven Moore J. G. Ballard: The Present is a Concrete Playground by Chris Barsanti Patricia Highsmith: Getting Away with Murder by Allen Hibbard BOA Editions by Susan Day Charles Fort: The Real X-Files Reviews by […]

Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1996 (#2)

INTERVIEWS Jaimy Gordon interviewed by Marty Lammon Curtis Whiteinterviewed by Alexander Laurence FEATURES Profile: Tim Hedges, Literary Escort by Brad Zellar Bookstores' Top Tens: Independent Booksellers' Favorites The Chances for Literature Part II by Charles Alexander Nathanael West's Secret Sharer by Christopher Sorrentino The Feminist Press by Carolyn Kuebler Saved by Johnny Depp by John S. Beckmann FICTION REVIEWS Rat […]

Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1996 (#1)

INTERVIEWS Rikki Ducornet interviewed by Carolyn Kuebler FEATURES Karen Elizabeth Gordon by Frank Marquardt Bookstores' Top Tens: Booksellers' Favorite Handsells The Chances for Literature in MN by Charles Alexander Austryn Wainhouse & The Marlboro Press interviewed by Carolyn Kuebler Twin Cities Literary Magazines Listing Reviews FICTION REVIEWS Ghost of Chance    William Burroughs   by John Granath Jetlag    […]