In Germany, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, published in 1929, was plainly a post-novel in a postfictional form. But the structured world did not end everywhere at quite the same time. In the United States there was a brilliant “last hurrah” of novels for several decades after the fictional form had disappeared in Europe, and Cozzen’s By Love Possessed, published in 1957, might still be considered as a valid fictional work. That special form of fiction, the Short S

It seemed, until I thought of it a bit, that I had written quite a few novels, and many shorter works, and also verses and scraps. Now I understood by some sort of intuition that what I had been writing was a never-ending story and that the name of it was “A Ghost Story.” The name comes from the only thing that I have learned about all people: that they are ghostly, and that they are sometimes split-off. But no one can ever know for sure which part of the split is himself. Da

"R.A. Lafferty's Escape from Flatland; or, How to Build a World in Three Easy Steps" (Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, November 2014, pp. 543-561). Andrew Ferguson's take on Lafferty is both brilliant and ingenious. Having read more Lafferty than anyone else, he brings an unparalleled knowledge of the Lafferty archive and a depth of understanding that will be especially inspiring to writers and other artists who turn to Lafferty for creative fuel. His insights have be