Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Niagara both epitomizes the French New Novel of the 1950's and 1960's and bewilders readers expecting traditional plot and character development. It is a work in which very little happens in the usual sense of novelistic action; structure towers over substance and the medium itself is one of the principal messages. Simply put, over the course of a year, groups of representative and interchangeable characters visit Niagara Falls, take the usual tours (on the Maid of the Mist, for example), speak to one another or to themselves, observe the local attractions, and leave. The human action in the novel follows predictably from one chapter (which spans a month's time) to another and is as constant as the flow of the falls.On another level, the novel's action takes place in the mind of the individual reader, who must participate in the work by making judgments, listening, adjusting the volume of what is heard, and...

Scope and Contents Danielewski signed this book in green ink at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is a big part of reading the book. The verse-riffs narrations, endlessly alliterative and punning (like Joyce)...

Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant material. The Sackners were present at the author's reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables , Florida on 9/27/06. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of...

Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski signed and inscribed this book in green ink in Sam's section and in orange ink in Hailey's section at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises...

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The theme of this book is writing for an experimental film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Black created three stories concerning a handkerchief and each is presented with a different typeface. This copy is one of 100 copies printed on Yatsou paper, the other 50 copies were printed on commercial paper for "Rooms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Black created three stories concerning a handkerchief and each is presented with a different typeface. This copy is one of 100 copies printed on Yatsou paper, the other 50 copies were printed on commercial paper for "Rooms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Black created three stories concerning a handkerchief and each is presented with a different typeface. This copy is one of 100 copies printed on Yatsou paper, the other 50 copies were printed on commercial paper for "Rooms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Black created three stories concerning a handkerchief and each is presented with a different typeface. This copy is one of 100 copies printed on Yatsou paper, the other 50 copies were printed on commercial paper for "Rooms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author "constructs the repertory of motifs and devices, and the system of relations and differences, shared by a particular class of texts" in postmodern fiction. This is an excellent reference source for examples of postmodernist fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text and numerous photographs were done by Bartheleme, the black and white and colored line drawings by Thompson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of two novellas, "Lag" and "Effect of Cellophane." Lag was written with only commas and Effect of Cellophane without punctuation. Both stories are printed without paragraph separations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was written using the cut-up technique popularized by William S Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Semiotic fantasy novel by Italo Calvino, published in Italian in 1973 as Il castello dei destini incrociati. It consists of a series of short tales gathered into two sections, The Castle of Crossed Destinies and The Tavern of Crossed Destinies. The novel concerns two groups of travelers through a forest, both of which have lost the power to speak as the result of traumatic events. One group is spending the night in a tavern, the other in a castle. In each place, the travelers tell the stories of their lives, using tarot cards instead of words. A narrator at each place interprets the cards for the reader, but since the tarot cards are subject to multiple interpretations, the stories the narrators offer are not necessarily the stories intended by the mute storytellers. A customer of Amazon.com wrote the following. Of the four books I have read by Calvino (all to be highly recommended for anyone who does not wish to be allowed to read passively, and who also is looking for something...

Scope and Contents This is a first edition of the revised novel that was published by Starcherone Books in 2007. This revision omits the lengthy Introduction and Appendix present in the latter and substituted a brief preface. Both versions of this book are held by the Sackner Archive.From Publishers Weekly: Mason's fantastic first novel, a deft reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, begins with the story as we know it before altering the perspective or fate of the characters in subsequent short story--like chapters. Legendary moments of myth are played differently throughout, as when Odysseus forgoes the Trojan horse, or when the Cyclops"”here a gentle farmer"”is blinded by Odysseus while he burgles the Cyclops's cave. Mason's other life"”as a computer scientist"”informs some chapters, such as The Long Way Back in which Daedalus's labyrinth ensnares Theseus in a much different way. Part of what makes this so enjoyable is the firm grasp Mason has on the source material; the footnotes double as humorous...

Scope and Contents Zachary Mason is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. He was a finalist for the 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. The label for the latter is pasted on one of the copies of this book.This is a first edition and only edition of this novel. It was later revised in an edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux that omitted the lengthy Introduction and the Appendix present in the first version and substituted a brief preface. This first version depicts three abstract images that have deleted from the revised version. Both versions of this book are held by the Sackner Archive.From Publishers Weekly: Mason's fantastic first novel, a deft reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, begins with the story as we know it before altering the perspective or fate of the characters in subsequent short story--like chapters. Legendary moments of myth are played differently throughout, as when Odysseus forgoes the Trojan horse, or when the Cyclops"”here a...

Scope and Contents This text of this book, that was written and designed by Fiona Banner, is printed only on the right sided facing pages. There are no paragraph separations of five, continuous film scripts dealing with battleground episodes of the sixties, Viet Nam war. The cover depicts the title in a psychodelic hot pink color on a bright blue background. The book was published in 800 unsigned, soft cover copies and 200 signed, hard cover copies.Nancy Princenthal writing in Art on Paper Vol.4 No.5, 2000 offers the following description. Banner doesn't generally dispense with punctu-ation altogether, but the headlong flow of language in her work, paced like spoken rather than written language and printed without-paragraph breaks, is most easily made sense of by being read aloud. This is as true of relatively short, single-sheet works like the 1999 "This Is It" (a hand-scripted summary, writ-ten from memory, of the movie "The Deer Hunter") as it is of "The Nam" (London, Frith Street Books with...

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Arno Schmidt, considered by many to be the "German James Joyce," was born in 1914 and died in 1979. This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. The Sackner Archive also holds the original German edition of this book. This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...