Ronald Sukenick

Examining the underground movement that emerged from Greenwich Village bohemia, this volume represents a collective biography of the people who created new tastes in art, writing, fashion, entertainment, film, and morality

Life in the Underground

Down and in

Mark Amerika

Intent on breaking down restrictive boundaries and rebelling against the whole limiting notion of genre, the writers in this collection create for themselves a space in which wild experimentation can take place.

Writing Beyond Category

Degenerative Prose

These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a medium for telling the truth.

Truth in Fiction

Narralogues

Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel and Other Stories remains among the most memorable creations of an unforgettable age. Irrepressibly experimental in both content and form, these anti-fictions set out to rescue experience from its containment within artistic convention and bourgeois morality. Equal parts high modernist aesthete and borscht belt comedian, Sukenick joins avant-garde art with street slang and cartoons, expressing his generation's anxieties by simultaneously mocking and validating them. These are original works by a writer who will try absolutely anything.

The Death of the Novel and Other Stories

On an island composed of fragments from an international postindustrial culture, a group of contemporary exiles, all underemployed or misemployed, wander aimlessly from bar to bar and lover to lover while endlessly discussing their shattered lives.

Ronald Sukenick

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