Anthologies
An anthology of some of the most innovative fiction being published in the world today.
About the Editor
Eckhard Gerdes is a widely published, award-winning novelist, poet and playwright ...
An anthology of innovative fiction.
About the Editor
Eckhard Gerdes is a widely published, award-winning novelist, poet and playwright whose work has been extensively anthologized and rec...
Harold Jaffe's acts of literary terrorism work to wrestle control of the future of literature away from the dominant culture. This book celebrates that effort. Jaffe is an acute observer of the pai...
Not only is this volume in the Journal of Experimental Fiction series a tribute to great French-American novelist and Holocaust survivor Raymond Federman by more than friends, colleagues, and admir...
A-way with it! That's what this is all about. The authors in this volume of The Journal of Experimental Fiction have demonstrated time and again that they have a way with words. Literature is drive...
The premier international source for literature at the forefront, The Journal of Experimental Fiction has done it again! It has collected writing by some of the bravest, most innovative and thought...
Spoken word with improvisational music played on homemade and prepared instruments. Shelf Life consists of Bryan Day, Joseph Jaros, Alex Boardman, Andrew Perdue, and Jay Schleidt on this recording.
About the Editors: Eckhard Gerdes is the author of 14 novels of innovative fiction and the founder and editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Jeff Burk is the author of Shatnerquake! and ed...
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List of Contents
Ripe for Shaking -- Yesterday's News
Afterthem Ð Giraffe
Michael A. Arnzen -- Driving the Sick Elephant
Dead Letter Office Ð- The Fallen
Scuff Mud (featurin...
This anthology is vastly panoramic in scope, encompassing countless styles, genres, frames of influence, and even geographic locations, from authors both new and influential. For years, the Journal...
Fiction. The Journal of Experimental Fiction was founded in 1986 by novelist Eckhard Gerdes in order to gain wider attention for the incredible innovative fiction writing being done at that time. J...
In a literary world where we see the constant rush of lemmings diving gleefully off cliffs into the seas of mediocrity and convention, it is refreshing to find that there are creative writers out t...
Novels
Asked to lead an investigation by the Bureau into the inexplicable behavior of a town that has seemingly gone insane, a highly regarded psychology professor encounters absurdist leaders, madcap cit...
Winner of the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award of the Innovative Novel!
"Innovative and engaging from the start Plague City draws the reader in with forms and a genreless narrative presented via reader p...
The 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel is Patrick Keller, of Long Beach, California, for his novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is. The contest judge, the late novelist...
"Ryan Madej is an increasingly rarefied beast (or talent, I prefer beast but options). To call his work experimental or surreal feels crude. However much it resists classification, Madej's artistic...
Novel. Death At Half-Mast is the first novel by Denis Emorine. For him, this novel is a watermark of his work. He presents his favorite themes, especially love and death, which are brushing against...
Fiction. Porn-Anti-Porn displays the body in pain and passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely f...
Fiction. When Hy ("Mememo") Grader jumped or was pushed off the balcony of the famous art and literary club known as The Cliff Dwellers (founded 1907 as The Attic Club), a terrible event occurring ...
A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young woman with whom the husband falls in love. ...
Driven by an unquenchable thirst for the unknown and boundless imagination, a boy learns about the nature of life in an idyllic pre-WW II Poland and nightmarish WW II Ukraine. Life in Yuriy Tarnaws...
Middle-aged bachelor Franklin Thompson and his widowed mother, Audrey, live together in a quiet small town. But their lives are periodically marred by the repeated attacks of a horrid mental disord...
Dr. Michael H.J. Tizard never quite got what he wanted from life, suffering quietly as his mentor took the professional plaudits and romantic affections that were rightly his. Growing old, with one...
Novel. Winner of the 2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. "Charles Hood has a unique voice and style. Sentences are sometimes fragmented on edge of abstraction, then sharp, staccato...
Short-Fiction
In a new, expanded edition!
Female barbers attached to a pair of scissors that won't stop, women who can't conceal hard-earned wads of hundred dollar bills sticking up under their polka dot bikini ...
Fiction. Art. Film. Q↔A: An Auto-Interview is, at heart, as its title suggests, an auto-interview by novelist and art and photography critic James R. Hugunin. It delves into the nature of his work,...
Literary Nonfiction. The 60 entries that constitute Paris 60 were recorded during Harold Jaffe's Spring 2008 Paris visit to greet the translation into French of one of his earlier volumes. Based lo...
Fiction. Each of Harold Jaffe's 13 docufictions features a well-known personage who either died of an overdose or was invested in "drugs" to the extent that they contributed to his or her death. Ma...
Fiction. "Brion Poloncic has given us an exceptional, unmitigated and idiosyncratic book. XANTHOUS MERMAID MECHANICS pushes at all of our preconceptions and misconceptions not only about the idiosy...
Fiction. Satire. Treat yourself to a hot and hilarious lunch served up by the author of Assassination Rhapsody, who The Review of Contemporary Fiction hails as "the postmodern master of parody." Th...
A body gradually shrinks to an eye that sees its own end. A man screams with pain as if singing an Indian raga to entertain others for a pittance. Another man tries to force his body to adapt the s...
Fiction. Erik Belgum's COLLECTED STORT SHORIES have been called "ten of the stortest shories ever written" and has perhaps been best described as "ten randomly generated words: splization, clackosa...
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