Triple Canopy & Dalkey Archive Press present
An Afternoon of Failure
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY
Saturday, April 2, 2011
3:00 p.m., free with museum admission
Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive Press present an afternoon of failure, to celebrate the release of the Review of Contemporary Fiction's "Failure" issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen. The program will include attempted readings from the issue by Eileen Myles, Helen DeWitt, Sam Frank, Travis Jeppesen, and Keith Gessen; a botched tribute to the classics of American literature by John Collins and Scott Shepherd of the theater group Elevator Repair Service; mangled covers of pop songs by US Girls; and an effort to resurrect William Gaddis. Read more »
The Review of Contemporary Fiction was launched in 1981 to provide a critical discourse around innovative literary works of the highest caliber that have largely been ignored by the mainstream media. Over the years, the Review has provided an alternative canon for contemporary fiction and has introduced such writers as David Foster Wallace, David Markson, and Gilbert Sorrentino, well before they were embraced by the critical establishment. (Wallace served for a time as an editor of the journal, and guest-edited a "Future of Fiction" issue, in 1996.) The Review has also published numerous anthology issues dedicated to new writing from foreign countries, special issues dedicated to innovative publishers (Grove Press, Editions P.O.L), and special topic issues, including the present "Failure" issue.
Related articles:
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The Document
by Sam Frank
“I mumble when I talk. I am not prepossessing. Except when I am.” A written life. |
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The Font of the Hand
by Joshua Cohen
On the processing of words, from scriptorium to LongPen. |
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