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 ...

“In early 1962, I was proofing a first novel by Harry Mathews called ‘The Conversations’ … Although Harry and his wife … lived in Paris, I’d met them in the Hamptons,” she recall ...

“Who can trust a novelist?” The question, posed early in Harry Mathews’s My Life in CIA, befits a book that willfully tests the limits of the reader’s credulity. A semi-fictionalized (or ...

Half of Harry Mathews' novel The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium was written in unintelligible pidgin English, which may explain why 25 publishers rejected it. His novel The Conversions ...