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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1162 Collections and/or Records:

Time Passes Like Rain / Burrus, Harry., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54955-990369
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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

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

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

Dates: 1999 - 2006

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

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Identifier: CC-44017-46130
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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

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

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Identifier: CC-50991-72070
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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

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

Training / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53154-74306
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This is a short story of a train ride through a storm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

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
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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

Travelog: Guidebook & Map, 1994

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Identifier: CC-31288-32761
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The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Travelog: Guidebook & Map / Ratajcak, Donna ; Hartland, Jessie., 1994

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Identifier: CC-03676-3741
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The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994