Daniel Green‘s essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, online and in print. He maintains the literary weblog, The Reading Experience.
Spring 2016
Reading the Past and the Future: John Keene’s Counternarratives
John Keene’s Counternarratives is neither a collection of short stories, nor the sort of linked novel-by-proxy series that has become increasingly common in the past decade or so.
Winter 2016
Just What’s Happening Right Now: Fabulation and Joanna Ruocco’s Dan
In 1979, Robert Scholes published Fabulation and Metafiction, in retrospect perhaps the work of literary criticism most influential in shaping our perspective on “postmodern” or “experimental” fiction from the 1960s and ’70s.
Summer 2015
All the World’s a Docufiction: On Harold Jaffe
If any writer deliberately proceeded throughout his career to almost ensure his work would be ignored by critics and publishers, it would have to be Harold Jaffe.
Spring 2015
The Materiality of the Medium: On Steve Tomasula
In many ways, Steve Tomasula’s fifth book, Once Human, is a very good introduction to the work of this conspicuously unconventional writer.
Summer 2014
Complete Fictions: On the Rewritings of Gabriel Blackwell
The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men is subtitled “The Last Letter of H.P. Lovecraft,” and is offered to us as a letter putatively written by Lovecraft a few days before his death, along with an introduction by the man who claims to have found it (“Gabriel Blackwell”), a series of annotations, and a few extended endnotes.