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 ...

Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, will reissue 10 works of fiction and nonfiction by American ...

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 ...

My favorite recent commentary on this poem is a version of it presented by the writer Harry Mathews at a lecture on the Oulipo in 1999, in Key West, Florida. The Oulipo, or OuLiPo, which stands ...

“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 ...

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 ...