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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1170 Collections and/or Records:

Things / A Man Asleep, 1990

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Identifier: CC-31441-32931
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The book consists of two novels. Things deals with a young French lower middle class couple in the post-WWII era who are marketing researchers. They want to be acquire possessions but do not have the necessary job skills or work ethnic to become wealthy. A Man Asleep is an existensionlist story about a nameless person that is written entirely in the second voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Thinks... / Lodge, David., 2001

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Identifier: CC-44087-46205
Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: Inimitable British writer Lodge (Small World; The Art of Fiction) is at his best in another of his comedies of manners set in the academic world. His 10th novel is distinguished by gentle satire, vigorous intelligence, sometimes ribald humor and a perspicacious understanding of the human condition. At the fictitious University of Gloucester, science and literature collide in the persons of 40-something Ralph Messenger and Helen Reed. Ralph's research as the director of cognitive science and his wit and charisma as an explicator of artificial intelligence make him a bit of a star in Britain, and with the ladies. He delights in opportunities for extramarital activities within the confines of the don't-ask-don't-tell arrangement he's established with his wife. Ralph's worthy opponent, newly widowed Helen, a novelist and Henry James devotee, has come to the university to teach creative writing. Helen represents the religious conflict common to Lodge's characters. She...
Dates: 2001

This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories / Callaghan, Barry, editor ; Zend R ; Atwood M., 1995

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Identifier: CC-58593-10001822
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Robert Zend contributed an experimental story "The Key" to this volume. He" emigrated from Hungary to Toronto and became one of Canada's most singular and experimental writers. His works include Zero to One, My Friend Jeronimo, Arbormundi and Beyond Labels. His masterwork, OAB, in two volumes, appeared in 1985, the year he died." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Thoughts of Sorts, 2009

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Identifier: CC-59712-10002770
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Amazon.com: Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and has provided an introduction to this master of systematic versatility. Thoughts of Sorts; is a compilation of musings and essays attempting to circumscribe, in Perec's words, my experience of the world not in terms of the reflections it casts in distant places, but at its actual point of breaking surface. Perec investigates the ways by which we define our place in the world, reveling in list-making, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and, as the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Three the Hard Way / Bright, Susie, editor ; Harrison W ; Boyd G ; Litzky T., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42927-44970
Scope and Contents Susie Bright in her introduction writes: "Get in, get out, don't linger. It sounds like a pornographic maxim, but it's actually Raymond Carver's axiom about how to craft the perfect short story. Erotic literature, in our lifetimes, has usually fit his bill. It's short, all right. Sexy stories have typically been told in punch lines, bawdy tales, quickies from a raconteur. I've seen erotic anthologies that proposed to tell a story in under a hundred words, then under fifty. Erotic storytellers have beaten the devil, then the censor, and finally the clock. There's an untold parable behind the quick and the hot. Sexual writing has suffered under a lot of shame, and that's made it difficult to thrive. In a great deal of America's publishing history, you had to be a beatnik or a pornographer to get your hands on any form of erotica, whether crude or existential. A couple decades ago, when commercial literary publishers began to produce erotic volumes of their own, they did so with two...
Dates: 2004

Throat Fly, 2005

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-44490-46640

Time Passes Like Rain / Burrus, Harry., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54955-990369
Scope and Contents

Harry Burrus was the editor/publisher of O! Zone, an Assembling held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Timothy McSweeney's: At War for the Forseeable Shitbrained Future. No.14 / David Eggers, editor ; Weschler L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42848-44889
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster that could totally mess up life as we know it. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C. Boyle, Susan Straight, Jim Shepard, Wells Tower, Jessica Anthony, Chris Bachelder, and approximately seven other good people. At least one of these stories contains the following paragraph: "I am Felicius Victor, son of the centurion Annius Equester, on active service in the Twentieth Cohort and scribe for special services for the administration of the entire legion. All day, every day, I'm sad. Over the heather the wet wind blows continuously. The rain comes pattering out of the sky. My bowels fail me regularly and others come and go on the continuous bench of our latrine...
Dates: 2004

Timothy McSweeney's: Blues / Jazz Odyssey? Known also as: "Polyanna's Bootless Errand". No.2/Win-Spr / Dave Eggers, editor ; Latham J., 1999 - 2006

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Identifier: CC-46916-49652
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This is the second printing (1999). Page 192 is numbered incorrectly as page 125. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999 - 2006

Timothy McSweeney's. No.16 / David Eggers, editor ; Mathews H ; Coover R ; Beattie A., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44017-46130
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The verso of Robert Coover's 15 playing cards (14 Hearts and aa Joker) entitled "Heart Suit"can be read as story in any sequence. Other authors who have written in this style include B.S. Johnson (Travelling People) and Marc Saporta (Composition No.1). Both of these works are held by the Sackner Archive. The man's comb in this collection is engraved "Timothy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Timothy McSweeney's: The End of Major Operations. No.33 / Dave Eggers, editor ; Chwast S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50991-72070
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The first book contains letters from readers and conventional fiction as well as several self portrait drawings by well known artist and writers. The second volume by Nick McDonell is an account that is illustrted with photographs of a novelist / correspondent 's personal account of time spent in Iraq. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Today I Wrote Nothing / Kharms, Daniil ; Matvei Yankelevich, translator ; Tufanov A ; Khlebnikov V., 2007

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Identifier: CC-51099-72181
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group, The People's Will. By this time the elder Yuvachev had already been imprisoned for his involvement in subversive acts against the tsar Alexander III and had become a religious philosopher, acquaintance of Anton Chekhov during the latter's trip to Sakhalin. Daniil invented the pseudonym Kharms while attending high school at the prestigious German "Peterschule". While at the Peterschule, he learned the rudiments of both English and German, and it may have been the English "harm" and "charm" that he incorporated into "Kharms". Throughout his career Kharms used variations on his name and the pseudonyms DanDan, Khorms, Charms, Shardam, and Kharms-Shardam, among others. It is rumored that he scribbled the name Kharms directly into his passport. In 1924, he entered the Leningrad Electrotechnicum, from which he was expelled for "lack of activity...
Dates: 2007