cover image Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors

Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors

Larry McCaffery. University of Pennsylvania Press, $22.5 (344pp) ISBN 978-0-8122-1442-0

In 1987 Larry McCaffery began interview writers ""working outside the usual conventions of traditional realism (usually far outside) who had produced works I judged to be of superior quality ."" In Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors he explores ""what the term `fiction' means at this point, what its boundary lines are, how and where these lines have expanded or contracted, and for what reasons."" Kathy Acker, Kenneth Gangemi, Robert Kelly, Richard Kostelanetz and Clarence Major are among the 14 interviewed. McCaffrey prefaces each interview with a biographical sketch, selected author bibliography and list of interviews and articles about the subject. (Univ. of Pennsylvania, $19.95 ISBN 0-8122-1442-0; cloth $39.95 -3201-1)