New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
"One of New Narrative's all-time best jokes is about the movement itself. It's the parodic motto that Bellamy formulates in Academonia for New Narrative "at its worst" "I have sex and I'm smarter than you." But "sex without fantasy," Camille Roy posits, "is nothing." The pieces compiled in Writers Who Love Too Much don't restrict fantasy. They use, as Boone says, eros, rather than facts, as the matter of narrative. Sex and fantasy are for New Narrative the stuff of ordinary life."--Jean-Thomas Tremblay "LARB" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM) "Gossipy and uninhibited, its breath is hot in your ear. It wants to tell you everything, and it wants you to overshare back."--M. Milks "4 Columns" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
DODIE BELLAMYs latest book is When the Sick Rule the World. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts. KEVIN KILLIAN is a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. He is the author of fifteen books and cowrote Poet Be Like God, a biography of the American poet Jack Spicer (19251965).