Divergent Trajectories

<div><i>Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers </i>by Flore Chevaillier examines the aesthetic political philosophical and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today's most cutting-edge fiction writers. New relationships between literature media culture and hypertexts have added to modes of experimentation and reshaped the boundaries between literary and pop culture media; visual arts and literature; critical theory and fiction writing; and print and digital texts. This collection of interviews undertakes such experimentations through an intimate glance allowing readers to learn about each writer's journey as well as their aesthetic political and personal choices.<br>  <br>  <br> Including interviews with R. M. Berry Debra Di Blasi Percival Everett Thalia Field Renee Gladman Bhanu Kapil Lance Olsen Michael Martone Carole Maso Joseph McElroy Christina Milletti Alan Singer and Steve Tomasula <i>Divergent Trajectories </i>provides a framework that allows innovative authors to discuss in some depth their works backgrounds formal research thematic preferences genre treatment aesthetic philosophies dominant linguistic expressions cultural trends and the literary canon. Through an examination of these concepts writers ask what traditional and innovative writing is and most of all what fiction is today.  <br>  <br>  </div>