Review of Contemporary Fiction

The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a triannual journal published by Dalkey Archive Press. It features a variety of fiction, reviews and critical essays, with an emphasis on literature with an experimental, avant-garde or subversive bent. Founded in 1980 by the publisher John O'Brien, the Review of Contemporary Fiction originally focused upon American and British writers who had been overlooked by the critical establishment, and in this manner the Review succeeded in bringing new critical attention to writers such as William Gaddis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul Metcalf, Nicholas Mosley, Donald Barthelme, and many others. In 1984, in order to begin reprinting some of these authors, John O'Brien founded Dalkey Archive Press.

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