The Death of the Novel and Other Stories

These stories represent an effort through, among other means, total improvisation, tape recording, and collage, to get fiction back to the truth of experience. They involve a stylistic and biographical progression, moving from alienation to rebellion and, in quixotic pursuit of reality, from a fictive self to the real self to a mythic rendering of the present. [From the inside cover.] THE PERMANENT CRISIS.1 MOMENTUM.9 THE DEATH OF THE NOVEL.41 ROAST BEEF: A Slice of Life.103 WHAT’S YOUR STORY.137 THE BIRDS.155