Ronald Sukenick
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Ronald Sukenick (July 14, 1932 – July 22, 2004) was an American writer and literary theorist.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Cornell University, and wrote a doctorate on English literature at Brandeis University.
He was founder and publisher of American Book Review, and a founder of The Fiction Collective.
After Roland Barthes announced the "death of the author", Sukenick carried the metaphor even further in "the death of the novel". He drew up a list of what is missing: reality doesn't exist, nor time or personality.
[edit] Works
- A Wallace Stevens Handbook (1962)
- Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure (1967)
- Up (1968)
- Death of the Novel and Other Stories (1969)
- Out : A Novel (1973)
- 98.6 (1975) novel
- Long Talking, Bad Conditions, Blues (1978)
- In Form : Digressions on the Act of Fiction (1985)
- Blown Away (1986)
- The Endless Short Story (1986)
- Down and In - Life in the Underground: Bohemian to Hip to Beat to Rock and Punk - Mutiny in American Culture (1987) autobiography
- Doggy Bag: A Collection of Stories (1994)
- Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (1995) editor with Mark Amerika
- In the Slipstream : An FC2 Reader (1999) editor with Curtis White
- Mosaic Man (1999)
- Narralogues: Truth in Fiction (2000)
- Cows
- Moving Ahead
- Last Fall
[edit] Upcoming Work
A previously unpublished story of Sukenick's, "For the Invisible, Against Thinking," set in Bali, with photographs and commentary by Sukenick's widow, art historian Julia Frey, will be included in the forthcoming The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Meet anthology of hybrid fiction and creative non-fiction, edited by Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot, published by The University of Texas Press (2007).
