"Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, 'a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tales'. "Fairy Tale Review's" first four issues ("The Blue Issue, 2005"; "The Green Issue ..."
"Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade. Together they contest the false present of the Bush years, continuing the political and aesthetic struggle that gave birth to modernism s dream of form. These fictions by Kim Addonizio, Diane Williams, Michael Martone, Brian Evenson, and nineteen others, first published by FC2 between 1999 and 2009 all l ..."
"The danger is one of redundancy, and furthermore that a woman or girl cruelly named Lisa will hear her name so often that she will go mad ... The name Lisa, to some Americans, is more dangerous than the words “fuck” or “fag” or “dilch."
"You've never experienced a novel like this. TOC is a multimedia epic about time—the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart, TOC is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting. It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep ..."
"Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take a most individual approach to storytelling. And the result―to the delight of readers everywhere―has been stories that reveal the mystery, joy, and enchantment in the most ordinary and incidental moments of life. These 33 exceptional tales ..."
IN & OZ A Novel by SteveTomasula Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80744-7, ISBN: 0-226-80744-4
" Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula’s style, IN & OZ is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of novel and moves it forward. IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters—an auto designer, photographer, musical composer ..."
VAS(1st Edition) A Limited, Cyborg Edition (limited Edition) by SteveTomasula Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2009 by Chiasmus Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9815027-1-7, ISBN: 0-9815027-1-7
"Fiction. Multimedia. Art+Design by Stephen Farrell. This special, limited edition is a must-have for book collectors. The original, groundbreaking novel of identity in the biotech age comes in a clear, polystyrene slipcase reminiscent of the lab. The custom slipcase also holds the voice of the book: an audio CD of readings especially created for this edition and set to music by Alloy Orchestra, renowned creator of contemporary scores fo ..."
The Book of Portraiture(1st Edition) A Novel by SteveTomasula Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2006 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-128-7, ISBN: 1-57366-128-7
"A desert nomad struggles at the close of the ancient world to inscribe himself into life, and centuries later a Renaissance artist attempts to overcome his lowly origins by painting nobility. Throughout Steve Tomasula's arresting tour de force, human beings seek to become what they are by representing it. An early twentieth-century psychoanalyst in search of a cure for sexual neurosis discovers the reflection of his own yearning in a fe ..."
The Book of Portraiture by SteveTomasula Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2006 by Fiction Collective Two ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-130-0, ISBN: 1-57366-130-9
"The Book of Portraiture is a novel about the irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human."--BOOK JACKET."
In & Oz by SteveTomasula Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2005 by Night Shade Books ISBN-13: 978-1-892389-63-3, ISBN: 1-892389-63-0
"IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, auto mechanics, and two places: the actualities of the here and now and the desire for somewhere better. Five men and women – an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor and mechanic – find themselves drawn together when they begin to suspect that the thing lacking in their lives might be discovered in the other place. Against the tension between idiosyncratic art and mass-marketed ta ..."
"This inaugural volume of "The &Now Awards" recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2004-2009. "The &Now Awards" features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history. This w ..."
Once Human(1st Edition) Stories by Professor SteveTomasula Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-176-8, ISBN: 1-57366-176-7
"A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding.A manga artist who is afraid that she herself is slipping into a cartoon version of life, a lab technician who makes art with the cloning technology she uses at work, a sociologist hunting for the gene that makes some people want to take risks—these are some of the characters that populate the stories ..."
"CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE “When I took my job at the tollbooth,” Mechanic
lamented to Photographer, back in ... never giving their vehicles a thought unless
it was to gild these lilies by the addition of fuzzy dice, or toy dogs whose heads
bob ..."
VAS(1st Edition) An Opera in Flatland: A Novel. By SteveTomasula. Art and Design by Stephen Farrell. by SteveTomasula, Stephen Farrell Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80740-9, ISBN: 0-226-80740-1
"Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: An Opera in Flatland—a hybrid image-text novel—demonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are.A constantly surprising, VAS combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerg ..."
Vas An Opera in Flatland Tomasula, Steve and Farrell, Stephen by SteveTomasula, Illustrator-Stephen Farrell Hardcover, 370 Pages, Published 2002 by Station Hill Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58177-094-0, ISBN: 1-58177-094-4