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Recommended: “Melville’s Descent into the Maelstrom.” Essay by TW.
"A Conference on Snow" - a short film from The President in Her Towers. Video realized by Oliver Kraft, Alberto Zamora Ruiz, Oliver Feigl, Alec Barth.
"The
Gypsy Problem!" -
The Straw That Broke (a film-in-progress directed by Valentin Hennig)
Gabrielle
Zimmermann
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Whalen’s work is thickly lyrical and
meditative, interrogating the relation of language to things, of books to life. —Review of Contemporary Fiction |
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Tom Whalen is "one of the
first-rate experimental writers in the New South whose work cannot be missed." —Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1989 |
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Stuttgart, 2015 (c) Kim Graser |
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Tom Whalen's books include Winter Coat (Red Dust, 1998), A
Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books, 1997), Roithamer's
Universe (Portals Press, 1996), The Camel's Back (with Michael Presti, Portals Press, 1993), Elongated Figures (Red Dust, 1991), The Eustachia Stories (Velocities Press, 1986). Several chapbooks have appeared with Obscure Publications. |
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Guest Editor of the Sentence Feature: "Foreign Influences" for the final issue (number 10) of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics. | |||||||||||||||
Short stories anthologized in Sudden Fiction; That's What I Like About the South: New Southern Stories for the Nineties; Elvis in Oz; A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose; Mondo Marilyn; The Book of Eros; Brief Encounters; The Student Body; Alice Redux and elsewhere. | |||||||||||||||
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Prose poems anthologized in The Great American Prose
Poem: From Poe to the Present; An Introduction to the Prose Poem; The Anatomy of Water:
A Sampling of Contemporary
American Prose Poetry; The Best of the Prose Poem; The Party Train: A Collection of North
American Prose Poetry.
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Short
stories published in AGNI, American Letters &
Commentary, Chicago
Review, Coe Review, Fiction
International, Florida
Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Hopkins Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Marginalia, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Natural Bridge, The Nebraska Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Southern California Review, Texas Review, Witness, and other journals. |
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Criticism (on Lewis Carroll, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Conrad, Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stevens, Doris Lessing, Donald Barthelme, George Garrett, Stephen Becker, Russell H. Greenan, Espido Freire, Buster Keaton, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Tom Tykwer, John Carpenter), poetry, personal essays, and collaborative translations have appeared in Bookforum, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Critique, Essays in Literature, Film Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Hollins Critic, Literature/Film Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, The Seattle Review, The Southern Review, Studies in Short Fiction, The Wallace Stevens Journal. | |||||||||||||||
Translations of stories by Robert Walser in Selected Stories (FSG), Masquerade and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press), and A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser (New Directions). Co-editor of the Robert Walser Number of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. |
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