Archive for the 'fiction' Category

3quarksdaily

"Just look at what he did there. Look at that."
 

Donald Barthelme’s barthelmismo

Links to Barthelme stories, criticism, articles, etc.
 

Wiggle Room

Second fragment of Wallace's third novel, published in The New Yorker.
 

Good People

A small portion of DFW's unfinished novel.
 

Lists of fictional detectives

Separated out by sub-genres.
 

A Better Angel

"I asked her why she hadn’t warned me about the wasps. 'I’m not that kind of angel,' she said." In anticipation of Chris Adrian's appearance at the Housing Works Bookstore Café on Nov. 3rd.
 

List of Fictional Political Parties

Only slightly more frivolous. Favorites include: Tastycrats, Party of Girls, Anal Compulsive Party, National Bocialist Party.
 

List of fictional United States Presidents

"Due to the length of this list, it has been divided into the following sections..."
 

We Tell Stories

Interesting, sort of clumsy, but I guess it was inevitable for someone to try something like this. It's great that Google Maps is set up in such a way that implementing this at least looks like it would be easy.
 

The Lemur

First installment of Benjamin Black's/John Banville's serialized fiction in the NY Times Magazine. (There's no good way to navigate between the chapters, sort of stupidly.)