American Made
214 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:18 Aug 1995
ISBN:9780914590996
American Made
New Fiction from the Fiction Collective
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
"Savor it for itself." —New York Times
First published in 1986, American Made brought together experimental work by many of the most innovative authors of the day: Ronald Sukenick, Curtis White, Mark Leyner, Thomas Glynn, Larry McCaffery, George Chambers, Russell Banks, Jonathan Baumbach, Jerry Bumpus, Moira Crone, Raymond Federman, B. H Friedman, Marianne Hauser, Fanny Howe, Harold Jaffe, Steve Katz, Norman Lavers, Clarence Major, Ursule Molinaro, and Peter Spielberg.
Among the nineteen works in this collection, some retain the surface features of realistic fiction. Other present the unreal in ways akin to fable or allegory. Still others are metafiction that highlights the fiction-making process itself. American Made is labyrinth of visceral, particularized worlds, each emanating from its own rules, voices, ambiguities, and textures. They continue to revitalize readers' relationship to language itself.
First published in 1986, American Made brought together experimental work by many of the most innovative authors of the day: Ronald Sukenick, Curtis White, Mark Leyner, Thomas Glynn, Larry McCaffery, George Chambers, Russell Banks, Jonathan Baumbach, Jerry Bumpus, Moira Crone, Raymond Federman, B. H Friedman, Marianne Hauser, Fanny Howe, Harold Jaffe, Steve Katz, Norman Lavers, Clarence Major, Ursule Molinaro, and Peter Spielberg.
Among the nineteen works in this collection, some retain the surface features of realistic fiction. Other present the unreal in ways akin to fable or allegory. Still others are metafiction that highlights the fiction-making process itself. American Made is labyrinth of visceral, particularized worlds, each emanating from its own rules, voices, ambiguities, and textures. They continue to revitalize readers' relationship to language itself.
Savor it for itself.' —New York Times
Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author. He has worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines and as a writer for the MTV program Liquid Television. He also co-wrote and voiced a short-lived series of audio fiction called Wiretap.
Curtis White has published fiction with the Fiction Collective, Sun and Moon, and Dalkey Archive Press, and a major work of non-fiction, The Middle Mind: Why Consumer Culture is Turning Us Into the Living Dead, with Harper San Francisco. His FC2 books include Anarcho-Hindu, and Heretical Songs.
Thomas Glynn is the author of three novels—Temporary Sanity, The Building, and Watching the Body Burn—and a book that mixes fiction and non-fiction: Hammer. Nail. Wood. The Compulsion to Build.
