Posted today unusual very short essay by Greg Gerke on a McElroy sentence. The essay comes very close to curious visions compacted in McElroy's prose.
Ligeia online magazine: Interview with Joseph McElroy just posted. Also new edition of Hind's Kidnap (Dzanc, 2021), McElroy's 2nd novel (first published 1969)
new McElroy novel excerpt in online launch: socratesonthebeach.com not to be confused with long-ago essay whose title the journal has generously drawn its name from
... first appeared in 1969; now, a half century later, we may experience in Hind’s Kidnap a society reaching outward almost like a planet at risk, persons who would be dekidnaped to become ends in themselves, fiction as prophecy. for release Sept. 2021
“We are thus led further upstream … something I can approach only by detour …” François Jullien, Living Off Landscape or the Unthought-of in Reason (trans. Pedro Rodriguez)
So apt, eloquent, and needed John Domini's LitHub birthday tribute to Jack Barth's sublime and lasting American fictions. Joe McElroy
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Joseph McElroy, essays in ed. Joseph Tabbi, POST-DIGITAL.dialogues and debates from electronic book review(2 vols.) in vol. 1,"If It Could Be Wrapped"(on water), pp.369-93;"Forms of Censorship, Censorship as Form,"pp.445-73,Bloomsbury (London),2020.
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"Pieces of a story he had coughed up, people interrogating a person.A woman. In California. A Navy seal herself. Nearly naked." McElroy, Cannonball (2013)
Essay on sex in WOMEN AND MEN: "Fifty Shades of Joseph McElroy," by Mike Heppner, in Golden Handcuffs Review, No. 26, pp. 212-23, just out.
WOMEN AND MEN ( Knopf, 1987): "And Me too, she heard all around her, intimate not falling away or apart, heard it from other women awakening in the new workshop world..." 1/2
Mar. 13 Paris Review: theparisreview.org/blog/2018…
"how could Luke ... have overlooked the practical survivor's 'Blessed are they who come to market' creed of the Scrolls' firsthand Jesus?" -- Joseph McElroy, Cannonball, p. 192
"Tham Luang Cave ...is, in essence, a seasonal underground river ... the plight of the boys brought together a country that has long been divided between the urban elite and the rural poor." NY Times, 7/9/18
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Some work in e-book. Novella set in India entitled Taken From Him. See McElroy website how you may order Women and Men. teapawt.net/hawkchain/status/10031…
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Dzanc Women and Men orders from Canada or elsewhere outside the United States should go through Michelle Dotter email address directly: [email protected]
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Joseph McElroy's Kiev talk on censorship posted on ebr with, now, two major ripostes by younger critics Nestelieiev and Wright