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The fifth issue fêtes tireless innovator in fiction and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar, relentless self-mythologiser, impish postmodern theorist, riotous humorist, playful pedagogue, friend and father Raymond Federman, with contributions from Jerome Klinkowitz, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Jacob Paul, Douglas Messerli, Larry McCaffery, Julia Frey, Geoffrey Gatza, Ted Pelton, Simone Federman, Steve Katz, Serpil Opperman, G.N. Forester, Eckhard Gerdes, Doug...

  The flagship issue fêtes Christine Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative voices of the twentieth century, whose fiction plays challenging games with form and structure, using grammatical constraints, multiple languages, and a dicing of genre styles and theoretical discourses as an integral component of her novels.  This 320-page issue contains creative and critical responses to her fiction, theory, and...

Compiling the third VP festschrift was an agonising process of cruel discrimination and random elimination. At nights, in our beds, texts called out to us to be included in the final 100 . . . from across the room, Natalie Sarraute’s Tropisms sang its praises in a soft whimper, Carlos Fuentes’s Christopher Unborn stomped and howled in envious rage,...