Series III: Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1981-2011

Scope and content:

This series contains files related to the production and publication of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. The files include correspondence, general files and planning materials, manuscripts, proofs, proofer's corrections, and subscription records.

A topical list of the published issues is as follows:

• Spring 1981 (Volume 1, Number 1) Gilbert Sorrentino

• Summer 1981 (Volume 1, Number 2) Paul Metcalf, Hubert Selvy

• Spring 1982 (Volume II, Number 1) Douglas Woolf, Wallace Markfield

• Summer 1982 (Volume II, Number 2) William Gaddis, Nicholas Mosley

• Fall 1982 (Volume II, Number 3) Paul Bowles, Coleman Dowell

• Spring 1983 (Volume III, Number 1) William Eastlake, Aidan Higgins

• Summer 1983 (Volume III, Number 2) Jack Kerouac, Robert Pinget

• Fall 1983 (Volume III, Number 3) Julio Cortazar, John Hawkes

• Spring 1984 (Volume IV, Number 1) William S. Burroughs

• Summer 1984 (Volume IV, Number 2) Juan Goytisolo, Ishmael Reed

• Fall 1984 (Volume IV, Number 3) Camilo Jose Cela

• Spring 1985 (Volume V, Number 1) Claude Simon

• Summer 1985 (Volume V, Number 2) B.S. Johnson, Jean Rhys

• Fall 1985 (Volume V, Number 3) Charles Bukowski, Michel Butor

• Spring 1986 (Volume VI, Number 1) Special Fiction Issue

• Summer 1986 (Volume VI, Number 2) Italo Calvino

• Fall 1986 (Volume VI, Number 3) Luisa Valenzuela

• Spring 1987 (Volume VII, Number 1) Chandler Brossard

• Summer 1987 (Volume VII, Number 2) Samuel Beckett

• Fall 1987 (Volume VII, Number 3) Harry Matthews

• Spring 1988 (Volume VIII, Number 1) Arno Schmidt

• Summer 1988 (Volume VIII, Number 2) Claude Ollier, Carlos Fuentes

• Fall 1988 (Volume VIII, Number 3) The Novelist as Critic

• Spring 1989 (Volume IX, Number 1) New French Fiction

• Summer 1989 (Volume IX, Number 2) Milan Kundera, Zulfikar Ghose

• Fall 1989 (Volume IX, Number 3) Kathy Acker, Christine Brooke-Rose, Marguerite Young

• Spring 1990 (Volume X, Number 1) Joseph McElroy

• Summer 1990 (Volume X, Number 2) John Barth, David Markson

• Fall 1990 (Volume X, Number 3) Grove Press

• Spring 1991 (Volume XI, Number 1) Alexander Theroux, Paul West

• Summer 1991 (Volume XI, Number 2) Donald Barthelme, Toby Olson

• Fall 1991 (Volume XI, Number 3) William H. Gass, Manuel Puig

• Spring 1992 (Volume XII, Number 1) Robert Walser

• Summer 1992 (Volume XII, Number 2) Jose Donoso, Jerome Charyn

• Fall 1992 (Volume XII, Number 3) New Italian Fiction

• Spring 1993 (Volume XIII, Number 1) Georges Perec, Felipe Alfau

• Summer 1993 (Volume XIII, Number 2) Younger Writers Issue: William T. Vollmann, D.F. Wallace, Susan Daitch

• Fall 1993 (Volume XIII, Number 3) Djuna Barnes

• Spring 1994 (Volume XIV, Number 1) Paul Auster, Danilo Kis

• Summer 1994 (Volume XIV, Number 2) New Flemish Fiction

• Fall 1994 (Volume XIV, Number 3) Angela Carter, Tadeusz Konwicki

• Spring 1995 (Volume XV, Number 1) New Danish Fiction

• Summer 1995 (Volume XV, Number 2) Stanley Elkin, Alasdair Gray

• Fall 1995 (Volume XV, Number 3) Brigid Brophy, Robert Creeley, Osman Lins

• Spring 1996 (Volume XVI, Number 1) The Future of Fiction

• Summer 1996 (Volume XVI, Number 2) New Finnish Fiction

• Fall 1996 (Volume XVI, Number 3) Edmund White, Samuel R. Delany

• Spring 1997 (Volume XVII, Number 1) Mario Vagas Llosa, Joseph Skvorecky

• Summer 1997 (Volume XVII, Number 2) Wilson Harris, Alan Burns

• Fall 1997 (Volume XVII, Number 3) Raymond Queneau, Carole Maso

• Spring 1998 (Volume XVIII, Number 1) New Latvian Fiction

• Summer 1998 (Volume XVIII, Number 2) Curtis White, Milorad Pavic

• Fall 1998 (Volume XVIII, Number 3) Richard Powers, Rikki Ducornet

• Spring 1999 (Volume XIX, Number 1) Edward Sanders

• Summer 1999 (Volume XIX, Number 2) Special Fiction Issue

• Fall 1999 (Volume XIX, Number 3) The Best of the Review of Contemporary Fiction

• Spring 2000 (Volume XX, Number 1) Bradford Morrow

• Summer 2000 (Volume XX, Number 2) Jean Rhys, John Hawkes, Paul Bowles, Marguerite Young

• Fall 2000 (Volume XX, Number 3) Henry Green, James Kelman, Ariel Dorfman

• Spring 2001 (Volume XXI, Number 1) David Antin

• Summer 2001 (Volume XXI, Number 2) Janice Galloway, Thomas Bernhard, Robert Steiner, Elizabeth Brown

• Fall 2001 (Volume XXI, Number 3) Gilbert Sorrentino, William Gaddis, Mary Caponegro, Margery Latimer

• Spring 2002 (Volume XXII, Number 1) Italo Calvino, Ursule Molinaro, B.S. Johnson

• Summer 2002 (Volume XII, Number 2) New Japanese Fiction

• Fall 2002 (Volume XXII, Number 3) Louis Zukofsky, Nicholas Mosley, Coleman Dowell

• Spring 2003 (Volume XXIII, Number 1) Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

• Summer 2003 (Volume XXIII, Number 2) Rick Moody, Ann Quin, Silas Flannery

• Fall 2003 (Volume XXIII, Number 3) Diane Williams, Aidan Higgins, Patricia Eakins

• Spring 2004 (Volume XXIV, Number 1) Douglas Glover, Blaise Cendrars, Severo Sarduy

• Summer 2004 (Volume XXIV, Number 2) Robert Creeley, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Janet Frame

• Fall 2004 (Volume XXIV, Number 3) William H. Gass

• Spring 2005 (Volume XXV, Number 1), Gert Jonke, Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily Holmes Coleman

• Summer 2005 Volume XXV, Number 2) William H. Gass, Robert Lowry, Ross Feld

• Fall 200 (Volume XXV, Number 3) Flann O'Brien, Guy Daveport, Aldous Huxley

• Spring 2006 (Volume XXVI, Number 1) Steven Millhauser

• Summer 2006 (Volume XXVI, Number 2) William Eastlake, Julieta Campos, Jane Bowles

• Fall 2006 (Volume XXVI, Number 3) The Cuban Fiction Issue

• Spring 2007 (Volume XXVII, Number 1) Dalkey Archive Annual 1

• Summer 2007 (Volume XXVII, Number 2) Special Fiction Issue: Juan Emar

• Fall 2007 (Volume XXVII, Number 3) New Australian Fiction

• Spring 2008 (Volume XXVIII, Number 1) New Catalan Fiction

• Summer 2008 (Volume XXVIII, Number 2) Dalkey Archive Annual 2

• Fall 2008 (Volume XXVIII, Number 3) New Writing on Writing

• Spring 2009 (Volume XXIX, Number 1) Georges Perec

• Summer 2009 (Volume XXIX, Number 2) Herman Melville's; or The Whale (Edited by Damion Searls)

• Fall 2009 (Volume XXIX, Number 3) Dalkey Archive Annual 3

• Spring 2010 (Volume XXX, Number 1) Writing from Postcommunist Romania

• Summer 2010 (Volume XXX, Number 2) Slovak Fiction

• Fall 2010 (Volume XXX, Number 3) The Editions P.O.L Number

• Spring 2011 (Volume XXXI, Number 1) The Failure Issue (Guest Editor: Joshua Cohen)

• Summer 2011 (Volume XXXI, Number 2) Gilbert Sorrentino and Mulligan Stew

• Fall 2011 (Volume XXXI, Number 3) Flann O'Brien: Centenary Essays

• Spring 2012 (Volume XXXII, Number 1) Robert Coover Festschrift

• Summer 2012 (Volume XXXII, Number 2) Gert Jonke's "Individual and Metamorphosis"

• Fall 2012 (Volume XXXII, Number 3) The Future of British Fiction

Copies of published issues can be found in Series VIII: Library.

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