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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

This. No.4/Spr / Barrett Watten, Robert Gregory, editors ; Silliman R ; Andrews B ; Coolidge C ; Watten B ; Clark T ; Berkson B ; Warsh L., 1973

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Identifier: CC-01297-1328
Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Thoughts of Sorts, 2009

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Identifier: CC-59712-10002770
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Throat Fly, 2005

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-44490-46640
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Ths Bell / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53192-74344
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Ths Click of Ectasy: The Final Scene / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53163-74315
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1999 - 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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

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Identifier: CC-44017-46130
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Timothy McSweeney's. No.38 / Dave Eggers, editor ; Eggers D., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53249-74401
Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Timothy McSweeney's. No.41 / Dave Eggers, editor., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55157-9998954
Dates: 2012
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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

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Identifier: CC-50991-72070
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

too far to hear (chapters xiv - xxvi), 1997

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31541-33035
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Too Too True / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1989

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Identifier: CC-20102-20496
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Totem. No.9/Sep / Avila C ; Abritta F ; Bruscky P ; Gomes R ; Pontes H ; Cabral AC ; daSilva LM., 1977

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Identifier: CC-62642-47894
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Toward Windward / curry, jw ; Barwin, Gary., 1989

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Identifier: CC-18031-18401
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Training / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53154-74306
Scope and Contents

This is a short story of a train ride through a storm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction / Montgomery, Lee, editor ; Hussman, Mary, editor ; Hamilton, David, editor ; Gass W ; Acker K ; Federman R ; Sukenick R., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27663-28746
Scope and Contents

William Gass contributes an introduction to the collection titled "Anywhere But Kansas" in which he describes the innovative fiction texts as "exploratory." He states that "explorational fiction records an often painful and disappointing journey, possibly of discovery, possibly of empty sailing: yet never toward what may lie out of sight in the self, since that is what improvisation discloses, but of what lies still unappreciated in the landscape of literature - implications unperceived, conclusions undrawn, directions everyone has failed to follow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

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