In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader

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In the last quarter century, the marketplace for serious fiction has been steadily co-opted by corporations, multinationals, and now publishing megaconglomerates that know no national boundaries. In this abyss, FC2 - one of the most unlikely projects in the history of American publishing, run by writers for writers - has created an enduring place for the pure devilish fun of play and change. Along the way, FC2 has introduced readers to the works of Mark Layner, Russell Banks, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick, Eurudice, Gerald Vizenor and many more.

Table of Contents
Who do they think they are? : a personal history of the Fiction Collective / Jonathan Baumbach — Introduction / Ronald Sukenick & Curtiw White — Cyrano of the regiment from Take it or leave it / Raymond Federman — Death of the band from Stolen stories / Steve Katz — He had one of those arooooooga horns from I smell Esther Williams / Mark Leyner — from The talking room / Marianne Hauser — Out of Chemnitz's biography II from Three blones and death / Yuriy Tarnawsky — In flight from Crash-landing / Peter Spielberg — from Holy smoke / Fanny Howe — from Broadway melody / Robert Steiner — Obo Island from Griever: an American monkey king in China / Gerald Vizenor — The gourmand from When things get back to normal / Constance Pierce — Our perfect partners from Modern romances / Judy Lopatin — from Emergency exit / Clarence Major — from S&M / Jeffrey DeShell — In which Francesco Melzi discovers fiction from Leonardo's horse / R.M. Berry — from The alphabet man / Richard Grossman — from The lost scrapbook / Evan Dara — from f/32 / Eurudice — from The charnal imp / Alan Singer — Metamorphosis no. 80 : the pyramid builder from Uncle Ovid's exercise book / Don Webb — from Eve's longing / Deborah McKay — from Mabel in her twenties / Rosaire Appel — Between sighs from Revelation countdown / Cris Mazza — Jody and Annie on tv from New noir / John Shirley — Village tripping from The Kafka chronicles / Mark Amerika — from Hogg / Samuel Delany — Stil from Distorture / Rob Hardin — from The Mexico trilogy / D.N. Stuefloten — from Damned right / Bayard Johnson — More mental from Straight outta Compton / Ricardo Cortez Cruz — Broken spell from Trigger dance / Diane Glancy.