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Focus: Fiction’s Future — July / August 2009

Fiction’s Future

Volume 30, Number 5
July-August 2009

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Tom Williams’s “Introduction to Focus: Fiction’s Future”

“Fiction’s Future: Words, Sentences, Quotes” -contributions by Lee K. Abbott; Diana Abu-Jaber; Mark Amerika; Jonathan Baumbach; Aimee Bender; Kate Bernheimer; Michael Bérubé; Stephen J. Burn; Teresa Carmody; Kelly Cherry; Robert Coover; Lydia Davis; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; John Dufresne; Scott Ely; Brian Evenson; Edward Falco; Raymond Federman; Larry Fondation; M. Evelina Galang; Zulfikar Ghose; Dagoberto Gilb; Henry A. Giroux; Michael Griffith; Katharine Haake; David Herman; Cary Holladay; Noy Holland; Janette Turner Hospital; Harold Jaffe; Charles Johnson; Stephen Graham Jones; Michael Joyce; Steve Katz; Roy Kesey; Richard Lange; Michael Martone; Larry McCaffery; Christina Milletti; Ander Monson; Farnoosh Moshiri; Lance Olsen; Jack Pendarvis; Marjorie Perloff; James Phelan; Vanessa Place; Donald Ray Pollock; Ron Rash; Jim Ruland; Josh Russell; Davis Schneiderman; Elizabeth Sheffield; George Singleton; William V. Spanos; Yuriy Tarnawsky; Jessica Treat; Mary Troy; Deb Olin Unferth; Douglas Unger; Sylvia Watanabe; James Whorton, Jr.; Eric Miles Williamson; and Lisa Zunshine

“Fiction’s Future: Elaborations”-contributions by Michael Bérubé; Stephen J. Burn; Teresa Carmody; Noy Holland; Steve Katz; Farnoosh Moshiri; Vanessa Place; Marjorie Perloff; Josh Russell; Davis Schneiderman; William V. Spanos; James Whorton, Jr.; and Lisa Zunshine

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