Contemporary American Fiction, and: Facing Texts: Encounters between Contemporary Writers and Critics, and: Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, and: Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (review)
Malcolm Bradbury and Sigmund Ro, eds. Contemporary American Fiction. Stratfordupon-Avon Studies. Second Series. London: Arnold, 1987. 195 pp. pb. $19.95. Heidi Ziegler, ed. Facing Texts: Encounters between Contemporary Writers and Critics. Durham: Duke UP, 1988. 301 pp. $40.00 cloth; pb. $16.95. Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory. Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987. 287 pp. $22.50. Peter J. Rabinowitz. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987. 249 pp. $29.95 cloth; pb. $8.95.