Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

trade paperback / Ebook
1931520240 · $18· April 30, 2007

-- Buy
-- mail order
-- Powells
-- BookSense.com
-- Fictionwise

Interfictions is the first book from the Interstitial Arts Foundation. The cover features a photo of 3D art by Connie Toebe. The table of contents below is alphabetical.

A version of the introduction is online and the Afterword, by hard-working editors Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss -- a great conversation on expectations, editing, definitions (and the lack or use of them) -- is posted (in slightly edited form) here.

Table of Contents

Heinz Insu Fenkl, Introduction
Karen Jordan Allen, "Alternate Anxieties"
Christopher Barzak, "What We Know About the Lost Families of ­ House"
K. Tempest Bradford, "Black Feather"
Matthew Cheney, "A Map of the Everywhere"
Michael DeLuca, "The Utter Proximity of God"
Adrián Ferrero, "When It Rains, You'd Better Get Out of Ulga" (translated from the Spanish by Edo Mor)
Colin Greenland, "Timothy"
Csilla Kleinheincz, "A Drop of Raspberry" (translated from the Hungarian by Noémi Szelényi))
Holly Phillips, "Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom"
Rachel Pollack, "Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph Ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt"
Joy Remy, "Pallas at Noon"
Anna Tambour, "The Shoe in SHOES' Window"
Veronica Schanoes, "Rats"
Léa Silhol, "Emblemata" (translated from the French by Sarah Smith)
Jon Singer, "Willow Pattern"
Vandana Singh, "Hunger"
Mikal Trimm, "Climbing Redemption Mountain"
Catherynne Valente, "A Dirge for Prester John"
Leslie What, "Post hoc"
Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, "Afterword: The Space Between"

Would you like a desk or examination copy? Read this.

Reviews

"Odd, Deep, Delightful"
-- Michael Bishop, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"This idea of playing with genre conventions is interstitiality's charm and what makes it a movement for the hypertext age. We want words to do more now and for our time not to have been spent with just one idea."
-- Adrienne Martini, Baltimore City Paper

"Buy this book."-- Sean Melican, Ideomancer

"Playing outside the rules once again is Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writings (Interstitial Arts Foundation / Small Beer Press ; April 30, 2007 ; $18.00), edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss. In this case, Small Beer Press is the distributor, which means, as I said above, they're bringing the world this collection, while the publisher is the very interesting Interstitial Arts Foundation. The mission is pretty clear: publish stuff that falls between the cracks, that lies outside of any single and perhaps all genres. They call themselves Artists Without Borders, so expect to find literature, visual arts, music and performance arts. Their list of contributors on the website is pretty amazing; Ellen Kushner, Gregory Frost, Heinz Insu Fenkl and Eve Sweetser; all these just writing essays. There's a lot to look at and more importantly read, and they seem to have chosen to publish on line the sort of material one can read online."
-- Rick Kleffel, the Agony Column

On the web:

• Interview with the editors
• Interfictions blog
• Interstitial Arts Foundation
• Delia Sherman
• Theodora Goss

Credits

• Cover images © Connie Toebe.
  Download cover for print.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Interfictions : an anthology of interstitial writing / edited by Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-931520-24-9 (trade paper : alk. paper)
1. Fiction--Collections. I. Sherman, Delia. II. Goss, Theodora.
PN6120.2.I47 2007
808.83'1--dc22
2007002129