Essays
"Total Eclipse: A Rearview Review of Rhythms,” in Electronic Book Review, April 7, 2024.
"The New-Materialism Novel: Twenty-Two Bricks in Its Theory and Construction" in Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives, Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons eds. University of Nebraska Press (2023).
"Haunting the Digital Imaginary, An Afterword" in The Digital Imaginary: On The Emerging Shapes Of Immersive, Narrative and Database Arts Handbook of Electronic Literature, Roderick Coover ed. New York: Bloomsbury (2019).
"The Late Age of Print, An Afterword" in The End of American Literature and Other Essays from the Late Age of Print , Jeffrey DiLeo ed. Huntsville: Texas Review Press (2019).
"Our Tools Make Us (And Our Literature) Post" in The Handbook of Electronic Literature, Joseph Tabbi ed. New York: Bloomsbury (2018). (pp. 39-59)
"Vast Landscapes, Small Screens & Altered Perspectives" in Paradoxa—Small Screen Fictions. Astrid Ensslin, Pawel Frelik and Lisa Swanstrom eds. Vol. 29, Volume 29 (2018).
"Time Capsule: Self-Capsule" in Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Bio Art & Poetry. Chicago: SAIC Video Data Bank TV (2018).
"I Joined the Avant-garde to Save the World and All I Got Was this Stupid Red Hat" in Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements, Jeffrey DiLeo and Warren Mott eds. New York: JEF ( 2018).
“Ars [telomeres] longa, vita [telomeres] brevis: Edunia & The Natural History of an Enigma” in Experimentalism (Special Issue of ASAP/Journal) Jonathan Eburne and Judith Roof eds.1.2 (2016) pp. 287-309.
“Our Tools Make Us (And Our Literature) Post,” in Transatlantica, mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2014. Jean-Yves Pellegrin ed. Université Paris-Sorbonne.
“I Only / Never I” in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on the Avant-Garde and Accessibility. Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson eds. New York: Nightboat Books, 2015. pp. 320-21.
“Nodes for a Posthuman Reading” in Théorie, Littérature, Epistémologie, (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes at Paris 8). No. 30-2013 (2014), pp. 11-25.
“Art and the Aesthetics of Biology” in Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, A-Life and the Arts. Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina, and Louise Whiteley eds. Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press, 2014.
“Visualization, Scale, and the Emergence of Posthuman Narrative” in Sillages critiques: Exposition / Surexposition. Monica Michlin and Fraçoise Samarcelli eds. Université Paris-Sorbonne (France) No. 17, December, 2013.
“Information Design, Emergent Culture, and Experimental Form in the Novel” in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. New York: Routledge, 2012. pp. 435-451.
“00.0 Machine Writing” introduction to special section, American Book Review. Vol. 35, No. 2, January/February 2014. pp. 3-7.
“Many Makers Make Baby Post: 40 Years of Reading ‘The Babysitter’”
in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2012. pp. 219-234.
“Code and New-Media Literature” in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. New York: Routledge, 2012. pp. 483-496.
“Emergence and Posthuman Narrative” in Flusser Studies: A Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media Theory. Spring, 2010.
“Where We are Now: A Dozen or So Observations, Historical Notes & Soundings for a Map of Contemporary American Innovative Literature as Seen from the Interior” in Études anglaises: revue du monde Anglophone (Paris) Vol. 62 No. 2. avril-juin 2010. pp. 215-227.
“War of the Words” in American Book Review. May/June, 2009, p. 6.
“(Gene)sis” in Eduardo Kac: El creador de seres imposibles. Andrés Burbano ed. and trans. Barcelona: UOC/A Minima.
“(Gene)sis” in Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, and Transgentic Art. Peter T. Dobrila ed .Maribor, Slovenia: Kibla, 2000. pp. 85-96.
“Gene(sis)” in Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information. Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle eds. New York: Routledge, 2003.
“(Gene)sis” in Art in the Age of Biotehnologial Revolutions. (In English and Greek) Anna Hatziyannaki ed. Athens: Futura Publications, 2006. pp. 50-61.
“Gene(sis)” in In vitro, in vivo, in silicio: Ensaios sobre a relação entre arte, ciência, tecnologia e o sagrado. Adauto Villela trans. Leila Amaral and Amir Geiger eds. São Paulo: Attar, 2008. pp. 309-320.
“(GEN)ESIS” in Eduardo Kac. Tomàs Belaire, Josep Miquel Casanova and Virginia Collera trans. Valencia, Spain: IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2007. pp. 54-71.
“A Literary History in Medias Res” in Musing the Mosaic: New Essays on Ronald Sukenick. Matthew Roberson ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.
“Genetic Art and the Aesthetics of Biology” in Leonardo (M.I.T Press) Vol. 35, No. 2, 2002.
“An Apology for Postmodern Prose” in The Iowa Review Vol. 32, No. 1, 2002.
“Ways of Seeing/Ways of Being” in The Electronic Book Review. No. 7 Winter 1997-98.
“(Gene)sis” in Eduardo Kac, Histoire naturelle de l’Énigme. Martin Richet trans. Paris: Éditions Al Dante, 2009. pp. 44-63.
“Remembering Raymond Federman,” in American Book Review. Vol. 31, No. 1, November/December 2009, p. 20.
“On Flatness” in Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts. Issue 8, 2009, p. 110.
“The King Died, Then the Queen Lived Happily Ever After & Other Endings”
in American Book Review Vol. 29, No. 2, January/February 2008, p. 10.
“Genetic Texts and Dominion over All the ERTH” in CyberText Yearbook 2001. Markku Eskelinen and Raine Koskimaa eds. Jyväskylä [Finland]: Research Centre for Contemporary Culture/ University of Jyväskylä, 2002. pp. 74-86.
“Reading Rikki Ducornet” in The Fan Maker’s Inquisition by Rikki Ducornet. NY: Random House/Ballentine, 2000. pp. 213-222.
“(Gene)sis” in Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art. Peter Tomaz Dobrila, ed. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Slovenia Ministry for Culture and Education, 2000. pp. 84-99.
“Fiction at the Millennium” in Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres. Vol. 5, No. 13-14, 2000, pp. 360-376.
“Kacs Zeitkapsel: Selbsteinkapselung” in Kunstforum [Germany] No. 151, July-September 2000, pp. 125-129.
“Time Capsule/Self Capsule” in Circa: International Contemporary Visual Culture [Ireland] No. 89, Autumn 1999, pp. 23-25.
“Writing the Post-Biological Body" in Reframing Consciousness: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Roy Ascott, ed. Exeter and Portland: Intellect Press, 1999. pp. 113-118.
“Speaking through a Veil of Dollars: The Dialog between Art and Literature” in The New Art Examiner. Vol. 26 No. 10, July/August 1999, pp. 36-41.
“Narrative + Image = Two Languages (in One Work) x Multiple Meanings [A Rationale for an Issue]” in The Electronic Book Review. No. 7, Winter 1997-98.
“Bytes and Zeitgeist: Digitizing the Cultural Landscape” in Leonardo (M.I.T. Press). Vol. 31, No. 5, 1998, pp. 337-334.
“Art in the Age of the Individual’s Mechanical Reproduction” in The New Art Examiner. Vol. 25 No. 7, April 1998, pp. 18-23.
“Ways of Seeing/Ways of Being” in The Electronic Book Review. No. 7 Winter 1997-98.
“[Re]Imagining the Book” in Upper and Lower Case: The International Journal of Graphic Design and Digital Media. Vol. 24 No. 1 Summer 1997, pp. 42-43.
“Three Axioms for Projecting a Line or The Future of the Postmodern Novel” in The Future of Fiction edited by David Foster Wallace. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 26 No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 100-108.
“The Garden in the Machine or The Function of a Literary Magazine” in Private Arts. No. 8 & 9 Fall 1994, pp -6 to -1.
“Reality, Unreality and Television" in the Chicago Tribune. March 25, 1982, Sec. 1, p. 22.
Reviews
“Electronic Literature, by Scott Rettberg” in Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 68 no. 2, 2022, p. 395-398.
“The One Marvelous Thing by Rikki Ducornet” in Rain Taxi. Online Edition: Spring 2010.
“The Religious & Other Fictions by Christina Milletti” in Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 27 Summer 2007, p. 148.
“Between Staying and Hearing: Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth” in American Book Review. Vol. 30, No. 2, January/February 2009, p. 17.
“New Arts of Being: Telepresence & Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits & Robots, Eduardo Kac” in American Book Review. Vol. 27, No. 5 July/August 2006, pp. 35-36.
“Frank, R.M. Berry” in Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 26, No. 3 Fall 2006, p. 149.
“Francis Johnson, Stacey Levine” in Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 26, No. 3 Fall 2006, pp. 150-151.
“My Body in Nine Parts, Raymond Federman” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 25, No. 3 Fall 2005, p. 140.
“Let Text Be Text: Cistern Tawdry by Eckhard Gerdes” in Rain Taxi Vol. 8, No. 1 Spring 2003, p. 24.
“The Thackery T. Lambshed Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts eds.” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 24, No. 1 Spring 2004, pp. 145-46. Reprinted in Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture, No. 15, pp. 19-20.
“Leviathan 3: Libri quosdam ad sciéntiam, álios ad insaniam deduxére, Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aguirre eds.” in Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 149-150. Reprinted in Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture, No. 13. p. 23.
“The Next Big Thing: Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl” in American Book Review Vol. 23, No. 6, September-October 2002, pp. 20+.
“Much Ado About Warring Poetics” featured in American Book Review Vol. 23, No. 4, May-June 2002, pp. 7+.
“Martin Nakell, Two Fields that Face and Mirror Each Other” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 22 No. 1 Spring 2002, .p. 131. Reprinted in Context.
“Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 22 No. 1 Spring 2002, .p. 120-121. Reprinted in Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture.
“Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring 2001, p. 191. Republished in Context. No. 7, Spring 2001, p 22.
“Alvin Lu, The Hell Screens” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 21 No. 2 Summer 2001, p. 168.
“R.M. Berry, Dictionary of Modern Anguish” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 20 No. 3 Fall 2000, pp. 135-136.
“L.N Pearson and Lidia Yuknavich, eds., The Northwest Edge” in Rain Taxi. Vol. 6 No. 1, Spring 2001, p. 18.
“Rikki Ducornet, The Monstrous and the Marvelous” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 20 No. 1, Spring 2000, p. 194.
“Dave Hickey and John de Fazio, Stardumb” in Rain Taxi. Vol. 5 No. 4, Winter 2000/2001, p. 29.
“E-Operas and Yo-yos,” feature essay in American Book Review. Vol. 21, No. 3, March-April 2000, p. 15+.
“Richard Burgin, Ghost Quartet” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 20 No. 2 Summer 2000, p. 185.
“Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin, Into the Tunnel: Readings of Gass’s Novel” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 19 No. 2 Summer 1999, p. 141.
“Rikki Ducornet, The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 19 No. 3 Fall 1999, p. 181.
“Curtis White, Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics” in Electronic Book Review. No. 9 Spring ’99.
“Silvio Gaggi, From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 19 No. 2 Summer 1999, pp 144-45.
“A Roundup of Image-Driven Narratives” in Electronic Book Review. No. 7, Summer 1998.
“Curtis White, Memories of My Father Watching TV” in Electronic Book Review. No. 9 Spring 1999.
“Jonathan Baumbach, D-Tours” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Fall 1998: Vol 28 No. 3, p. 249.
“Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Torn Wings and Faux Pas” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Spring 1998: Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 231-32.
“Full-bodied Lit,” feature essay in American Book Review. Vol. 19, No. 6, September-October 1998, pp 9+.
“Rikki Ducornet, The Word ‘Desire’” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 18 No. 1 Spring 1998, p. 222.
“Dra— by Stacey Levine” in Rain Taxi. Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 1997, p. 15.
“Hotel sans Walls: Storytown by Susan Daitch” in American Book Review. Vol. 18 No. 4 May-June 1997, p. 28-29.
“City in Love by Alex Shakar” in Rain Taxi. Vol. 2 No. 2 Spring 1997, p. 44.