Innovative Women Writing Fiction
Volume 23 Number 5
July-August 2002
FOCUS: Innovative Women Writing Fiction
Introduction: Innovative Female Fiction Writers
Stacey Gottlieb
The Rebirth of Irony
Heidi Julavits reviews Lightning Field by Dana Spiotta
Vanished Women
Laura Engel reviews The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman
Literary Origami
Carole Burns reviews Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
Dancing on the Borderline
Stacey Levine reviews Romancer Erector by Diane Williams
Comical Gnostic
Rikki Ducornet reviews Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis
Begin in Singing
Essay by Carole Maso
FEATURE: Poetry on the Left
Poetry that Makes Something Happen
Nancy Berke reviews Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left by Cary Nelson
Discipline and Punish
Michael McIrvin reviews The Prisons by Maggie Jaffe
FEATURE: A Woman’s Perspective
The Purplest of Prose
Victoria Brockmeier reviews Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s Rhetoric(s) edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald
Ethical Apprenticeships
Nancy Kline reviews American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman by Thomas Carl Austenfeld
Book Reviews
The Reasons of Poetry
Laurel Blossom reviews The Poems of Laura Riding: A Newly Revised Edition of the 1938/1980 Collection by Laura (Riding) Jackson
The Space in a Mirror
Andras Hamori reviews Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl
Bardic Riffs
Charles Marowitz reviews Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Reworked by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson by Andy Lavender
Dread(locked) Poets Society
Benjamin Ivry reviews Too Black, Too Strong by Benjamin Zephaniah
Strange Worlds
Anneli Rufus reviews Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams
Imagination’s Horne
Robert Burr reviews The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews by William Matthews
Words, Words, Words
Alan Richter reviews Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis
Bounding the Void
Ryan Smith reviews The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer, and The Noctambulists & Other Fictions by Peter Spielberg
Lyrics and Essays
David Latané reviews The Salt Hour and The Sleeper at the Party by J.P. White
Oliver Twisted
Jeremy Russell reviews Fast Eddie, King of the Bees by Robert Arellano
Wheat and Chaff
Robert Peters reviews The Complete Poetry of James Hearst edited by Scott Cawelti
An Art of Light and Life
Corinne Robins reviews Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Beg, Borrow, or Steal
Kevin Grandfield reviews Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Midwestern Woes
Edward Butscher reviews Freezing by Steve Langan
Radical Originality
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans by Mary Jo Bang and The Keep by Emily Wilson
Thinking Cure
David Matlin reviews Apart from Freud: Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Cohen
Remembering Mama
Elaine Starkman reviews A Man and a Woman and a Man by Savyon Liebrecht
Departments
Picketing the Zeitgeist
Five-Point Restraints: Art-Making in the Technosphere by Harold Jaffe
From the Backlist
Mike Chasar reviews The Autochton Poems by Simon Perchik
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.