or Harry Mathews’ matryoshka dolls nesting stories within stories. Early last year, Mathews, the first American ever welcomed into Oulipo — that French society of experimental, constraint ...

Writers can be "difficult" or "demanding" in various ways. Some pepper their novels with Latin (Umberto Eco); others eschew paragraphs (Thomas Bernhard, Jose Saramago) or refuse to identify ...

Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, will reissue 10 works of fiction and nonfiction by American writer Harry Mathews over the next five years. The publishing program will ...