Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics. Our thematic issues feature controversial fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world.
The theme for this edition of Fiction International is Writing and Politics. It features a forum/discussion of the theme and fiction, reviews and art from leading international writers, poets and artists.
Contents of issue 15.1:
Harrison Fisher / One Ocean on Earth
Catherine Gammon / Facing North
Hans Koning / Growing Up in Amsterdam, and Through World War II
Luisa Valenzela / Three Fictions
Harold Jaffe / John Crow
Fanny Howe / The Blue Pool
Curtis White / A Disciplined Life
Ronald Sukenick / At This Very Instant
Luisa Mercedes Levinson / The Siblings
Fred Pfeil / A Buffalo, New York Story
Kenneth Bernard / The Films of R. Nixon
Stephen 0’ Connor / Unknowing
Joyce Carol Oates / Chloe
Non-Fiction:
Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory / Interview with William Kennedy
Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi / Deculturization in the Islamic Republic
Raymond Federman / The Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jewish Writer
Reviews:
Hans Koning reviewed by Deborah Small
Tove Ditlevson and Dorit Willumsen reviewed by Joan Joffe Hall
Simon Ortiz reviewed by Willard Gingerich
Art:
Cecile Abish / Four photographs
Lauren Ewing / Five drawings
Contributors’ Notes
Cover: Lauren Ewing, Auto-Plastique: The Prison 1981.
Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics. Our thematic issues feature controversial fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world.
The theme for this edition of Fiction International is Writing and Politics. It features a forum/discussion of the theme and fiction, reviews and art from leading international writers, poets and artists.
Contents of issue 15.1:
Harrison Fisher / One Ocean on Earth
Catherine Gammon / Facing North
Hans Koning / Growing Up in Amsterdam, and Through World War II
Luisa Valenzela / Three Fictions
Harold Jaffe / John Crow
Fanny Howe / The Blue Pool
Curtis White / A Disciplined Life
Ronald Sukenick / At This Very Instant
Luisa Mercedes Levinson / The Siblings
Fred Pfeil / A Buffalo, New York Story
Kenneth Bernard / The Films of R. Nixon
Stephen 0’ Connor / Unknowing
Joyce Carol Oates / Chloe
Non-Fiction:
Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory / Interview with William Kennedy
Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi / Deculturization in the Islamic Republic
Raymond Federman / The Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jewish Writer
Reviews:
Hans Koning reviewed by Deborah Small
Tove Ditlevson and Dorit Willumsen reviewed by Joan Joffe Hall
Simon Ortiz reviewed by Willard Gingerich
Art:
Cecile Abish / Four photographs
Lauren Ewing / Five drawings
Contributors’ Notes
Cover: Lauren Ewing, Auto-Plastique: The Prison 1981.