Fiction of the Eighties: A Decade of Stories from TriQuarterly

by Reginald Gibbons (Editor), Susan Fireston Hahn (Editor)

Overview

This special issue of TriQuarterly presents a decade of stories by such writers as Raymond Carver, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Barthelme, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Bly, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916384067
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	1
Pages:	588
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Gibbons is the author of more than half a dozen collections of poetry.

Poet, editor, playwright, and novelist Susan Firestone Hahn was born and raised in and around Chicago. She earned a BA and MA in psychology from Northwestern University and trained as an art therapist at the Gestalt Institute of Chicago before turning her attention to poetry. Hahn has published numerous poetry collections.

Table of Contents

Preface

Where is Everyone (from TQ #48, Spring 1980)
Raymond Carver

Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand (#48)
Leslie Marmon Silko

Dillinger in Hollywood (#48)
John Sayles

Hunters in the Snow (#48)
Tobias Wolff

Walking Out (#48)
David Quammen

Jonathan (#50, Winter 1981)
Jay Neugeboren

Prize Tomatoes (#50)
Anne Rosner

Domestic (#53, Winter 1982)
Frederick Barthelme

Going to the Dogs (#53)
Richard Ford

Prayer for the Dying (#55, Fall 1982)
Willis Johnson

The Student (#55)
David Plante

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried (#56, Winter 1983)
Amy Hempel

The Texas Principessa (#56)
William Goyen

The Third Count (#56)
Andrew Fetler

The Storytellers (#58, Fall 1983)
Fred Chappell

Turning Out (#58)
Gayle Whittier

The Last Escapade (#60, Spring/Summer 1984)
Harry Mark Petrakis

The Address (#61, Fall 1984)
Marga Minco

The Chandelier (#61)
Gregory Orfalea

All My Relations (#62, Winter 1985)
Christopher McIlroy

Any Minute Mom Should Come Blasting Through the Door (#62)
David Ordan

The New Moon Party (#62)
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Dancing in the Movies (#64, Fall 1985)
Robert Boswell

The Singing Well (#64)
Helen Norris

Midrash on Happiness (#65, Winter 1986)
Grace Paley

Africa (#66, Spring/Summer 1986)
Robley Wilson, Jr.

Elephant Bait (#66)
Daniel Wallace

This Horse of a Body of Mine (#66)
Norbert Blei

In the Air, Over Our Heads (#67, Fall 1986)
Amy Herrick

A Sudden Story (#68, Winter 1987)
Robert Coover

In Proportion (#68)
Lynn Grossman

The Blue Baby (#68)
Leon Rooke

Yarrow (#68)
Joyce Carol Oates

Death of a Son (#69, Spring/Summer 1987)
Njabulo S. Ndebele

The Amanuenis (#69)
Wayne Assam

Buddah (#71, Winter 1988)
Susan Straight

Broder's Loves (#71)
Sidney Sulkin

Something Big (#71)
Robert S. Nelsen

Story of My Weight (#72, Spring/Summer 1988)
Anne Calcagno

The Sweater (#72)
Norman Manea

A Committee of the Whole (#73, Fall 1988)
Carol Bly

Coupon for Blood (#73)
Sandy Huss

The Eleventh Edition (#74, Winter 1989)
Leo L. Litwak

Alvin Jones's Ignorant Wife (#74)
Margaret Broucek

Fishbone (#74)
Donna Trussell

Rodriguez's Myopia (#74)
Leo Masliah

Retreat (#77, Winter 1989/90)
Arthur Morey
 

Editorial Reviews

"Perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction." —New York Times



"TriQuarterly [has] managed to present some of the most stimulating new writing of the age ... [and] has fulfilled the classic function of a literary magazine in the twentieth century." —Times Literary Supplement



"TriQuarterly has consistently published some of the most provocative of contemporary literature."

—Booklist

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