Focus: Minimalisms — May / June 2012

Minimalisms

Volume 33, Number 4
May-June 2012

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Jeffrey A. Sartain’s “Introduction to Focus: Minimalisms”

Robert Miltner reviews Raymond Carver’s Beginners: The Original Version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Ayala Amir reviews Gordon Lish’s Collected Fictions

Jeff Wallace reviews Melinda Moustakis’s Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Monica Drake reviews Diane Williams’s Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty

Jeff Ludwig reviews Justin Sirois’s Falcons on the Floor

Micah Ling reviews Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel

Jeffrey A. Sartain reviews Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller in They Could No Longer Contain Themselves

Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Monica Drake, Amelia Gray, Phil Greany, Sheila Heti, Tao Lin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Miltner, Melinda Moustakis, Shouhua Qi, Ron Riekki, James Robison, Justin Sirois, Tom Spanbauer, and Michael Trussler in “Minimalisms”

Feature: Memoirs

Barry Wallenstein reviews Ellen Schecter’s Fierce Joy

Duane Niatum reviews David Treuer’s Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life

Tracy McCabe reviews Renée E. D’Aoust Body of a Dancer

Book Reviews

A. J. Ortega reviews Rolando Hinojosa-Smith’s A Voice of My Own

John Tytell reviews Ed Sanders’s Fug You

Susan Azar Porterfield reviews Hedy Habra’s Flying Carpets

Joseph D. Haske reviews Richard Burgin’s Shadow Traffic

Paul Oppenheimer reviews Annie Boutelle’s This Caravaggio

C. W. Cannon reviews Moira Crone’s The Not Yet

Jonathan Edward reviews F. D. Reeve’s Nathaniel Purple

Elizabeth Searle reviews Caroline Picard’s Psycho Dream Factory

Liana Vrajitoru Andreason reviews Dumitru Tsepeneag; Patrick Camiller (trans.) in Hotel Europa

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Michael McClure, Leslie Scalapino (ed.) in Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems

W. Lawrence Hogue reviews Lance Olsen in collaboration with Trevor Dodge in Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing

Jensen Beach reviews Michael Griffith’s Trophy

Abby Nance reviews Myfanwy Collins’s Echolocation

Jason Jordan reviews Charles Dodd White’s Sinners of Sanction County

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Data Mining Fiction”

Scenes—Dark Sky, An Interview with Brian Allen Carr