Albert J. Guerard’s “The Blue Notebook of Charles Stanfield: 1922” is from his new novel The Hotel in the Jungle. He has published six other novels, among them Christine/Annette, and six books of literary criticism, the latest being The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner.
Read morePhillip Graham
Phillip Graham is a graduate of the City College of New York program in creative writing. He is the author of The Vanishings (prose poems) and most recently The Art of the Knock (short stories), and has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Washington Post Magazine, and other magazines. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Read moreUri Nissan Gnessin
Uri Nissan Gnessin (1881 – 1913) was born in the Ukraine and wandered through Europe and to Eretz Israel (Palestine) before returning to Russia. One of the first to introduce devices of modern fiction into Hebrew literature, Gnessin wrote about the dilemma of the Jew detached from Eastern European roots, trying to live as a cosmopolitan citizen of the twentieth century.
Read moreIrvin Faust
Irvin Faust is a graduate of the City College of New York and has a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College. He is the author of six novels, among them The Steagle and Willy Remembers, and two short story collections, Roar Lion Roar and The Year of the Hot Jock. Most recently he was published in an anthology of Jewish-American fiction in Italy.
Read moreKelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry’s most recent book of fiction, a novel in stories titled My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers, was published in Algonquin Books in 1990. She has published four other novels and three books of poems, most recently Natural Theology (Louisiana State University Press, 1988. In 1989 she received the first Fellowship of Southern Writers Poetry Award, “in recognition of a distinguished body of work.” Louisiana State University Press will publish her first book of nonfiction in 1991.
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Corinne Demas Bliss
Corinne Demas Bliss is the author of a novel, The Same River Twice (Atheneum), and a collection of short stories, Daffodils of the Death of Love (University of Missouri Press). Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire, McCall’s, Mademoiselle, Ploughshares, Redbook, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Read moreEllen E. Behrens
Ellen E. Behrens, an assistant editor for Mid-American Review and a recent graduate of the creative writing program at Bowling Green State University, has had short stories, articles, and poems published in various periodicals. She is currently complete a novel.
Read moreDelsa Weiner
Delsa Weiner received a 1979 Fellowship for Fiction from the Artist’s Foundation of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. Her short story “Rendezvous with Daddy” appeared in the March 1981 issue of McCall’s Working Mother.
Read moreSevero Sarduy
Severo Sarduy was born in Cuba in 1937. He is the author of Cobra, and his novella From Cuba With a Song appeared in the collection Triple Cross published by Dutton in 1972. He now lives in Paris.
Read moreVirgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera was born in Cuba in 1912. He lived many years in Argentina, where he published his first novel, La carne de René, and in 1956 a volume of brief fantasies, Cuentos frios (Cold Stories). On his return to Cuba, Piñera published a second novel, Pequeñas maniobras, and staged several plays. His short stories have been translated into French and Italian. He died recently in Cuba.
Read moreHerberto Padilla
Herberto Padilla was born in Cuba in 1932. He spent the year 1948 in the United States teaching in Berlitz schools. He returned to Cuba in 1949 and later worked as a journalist in London and Moscow. His books of poetry include Sent Off the Fields (1972), El hombre junto al mar (1978), Por el momemto (1970), and La marca de la soga. A book of his poetry translated by Alastair Reid will be published in 1981 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. Padilla left Cuba in 1980 and now lives in the New York City area.
Read moreClarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector lived in Brazil until here death in 1978. She is the author of six novels and four short story collections, of which the novel Apple in the Dark (Knopf) and the collection Family Ties (University of Texas Press) have been translated into English.
Read moreJosé Lezama Lima
José Lezama Lima was born in Cuba in 1912. He is the author of the novel Paradiso (1966) and is represented here by a story published in the sixties. Lima remained in Cuba after the Revolution and died there in 1980.
Read moreYasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata is best known in the West for his novels Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and Sound of the Mountain, and for his early short story The Izu Dancer. Kawabata began writing in the early 1920s while he was still a student at Tokyo Imperial University. Soon thereafter he became one of the chief proponents of a new school of Japanese writing, breaking away from the extremes of realism typical of Japanese literature and attempting to develop a new, impressionistic approach. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958 and died in 1972.
Read moreHarold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe has recently compiled a volume of short fiction called Mourning Crazy Horse. He is co-director of the Fiction Collective.
Read moreGuillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante founded Lunes, the literary supplement to Revolución, which he edited until it was banned in 1961. He was then appointed cultural attaché to the Cuban Embassy in Brussels and promoted to chargé d’affaires, but in 1965, while visiting Cuba to attend his mother’s burial, he resigned from his diplomatic position. His collection of short stories, Así en la paz como en la guerra, has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, and Chinese. His novels translated into English include Three Trapped Tigers and View of Dawn in the Tropics. He now lives in London.
Read moreStephanie Curtiss Gunn
Stephanie Curtiss Gunn was born in Toronto. The recipient of an M.F.A. from Columbia in 1979 and a 1979-1980 grant from CAPS, she has been published in Columbia, a Magazine of Poetry and Prose, and The Penny Dreadful. She is presently at work on a novel, The Life Itself Is Too Strong.
Read moreWilliam Ferguson
William Ferguson teaches Spanish literature at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, the Boston Review, Canto, the Mississippi Review, and Calliope. Last year, with Nancy King, he founded the Metacom Press, a Worcester-based private press specializing in limited editions of modern American authors.
Read moreArthur Cohen
Arthur Cohen’s most recent novel is Acts of Theft. Others include The Carpenter Years, A Hero in His Time, and In the Days of Simon Stern. He lives in New Yorker where he is a rare book dealer.
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