F4: F Magazine, Novels-in-Progress and More - Softcover

Grazia, Don Gennaro De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936959029 ISBN 13: 9780936959023

Publisher: John Schultz Associates, 1999

Synopsis

f4 features novel excerpts, short fiction, poetry and literary discussions from some of the leading contemporary American writers, as well as up-and-coming literary talent. This edition features Andrew Vachss, Jane Hamilton, National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, Polly Mills, Randall Albers, first-time novelists Zak Mucha and Joe Meno, and many other top writers.

About this title

From the Author:

Though F Magazine publishes a wide variety of works (this issue includes short stories, poetry, and a roundtable discussion on race, culture, and the writer's voice), the primary focus is on the novel. Each of f4's novels-in-progress demonstrates a sophisticated and unique approach to story, but the connecting thread is a decidedly democratic authorial sense of audience. The selections within explore the complexities of war, romantic love, family relationships, gender issues, and countless other enigmas of modern life. In today's world, for a multitude of reasons, the author who aims at reaching the broadest possible audience with a literary novel faces a steep, uphill battle. But I believe the excerpts f4 show that it is still a noble goal. This issue also introduces F Gallery, featuring short movements from across the contemporary fiction spectrum. -- Don Gennaro De Grazia - Managing Editor

About the Author:

The Editor of F4 is novelist Don Gennaro De Grazia. His first, critically-acclaimed novel, American Skin, was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in 1998 (to be published in the US in April, 2000). He is an instructor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College, Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Schultz Associates
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0936959029
• ISBN 13: 9780936959023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180