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The Irreal Reader

G. S. Evans & Alice Whittenburg

First published 2013
Publisher Guide Dog Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Maggie Taylor
Pages 230
Price $14.95
ISBN 9781935738343

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Preface (The Irreal Reader) Alice Whittenburg & G. S. Evans Essay
13 The Santa Fe Terry Dartnall Short Story
16 From Geisha House Ana María Shua Short Fiction
17 From Botany of Chaos Ana María Shua Short Fiction
21 From The Diary of Mr. Pinke (excerpt) Ewald Murrer Short Fiction
27 The Spindler Kevin Sexton Short Story
31 Kisi Shayar Something Something Kuzhali Manickavel Short Story
32 Cats and Fish Kuzhali Manickavel Short Story
33 Because We Are Precious and Brave Kuzhali Manickavel Short Story
35 Seven Prose Poems Charles Simic Short Fiction
37 Unreal Geography Norman Lock Short Story
38 The Cruelty of Poetry Norman Lock Short Story
41 Storm Warning Vanessa Gebbie Short Story
42 The Note-Takers Vanessa Gebbie Short Story
45 From Mr. Deadman Peter Cherches Short Story
49 A Sad Play Jiří Kratochvil Short Story
51 From the Pulps Jiří Kratochvil Short Story
54 I Came Highly Recommended Paul Blaney Short Fiction
54 I Dreamed and in My Dream Paul Blaney Short Story
54 The Restaurant Paul Blaney Short Story
55 As I Walked Out Paul Blaney Short Story
55 How the Universe Works Paul Blaney Short Story
57 I Feel My Temperature Risin' Greg Jenkins Short Story
60 Herzenboogen's Theory of Collective Truth Caitlin Horrocks Short Story
63 Just Words Guido Eekhaut Short Story
66 Cellular Girija Tropp Short Story
67 The City and Heaven Michal Ajvaz Short Story
73 The Kn!ghts of Slipway Seven Lee Williams Short Story
75 The Fever Gleyvis Coro Short Story
79 Shuteye Bob Thurber Short Story
81 From Magoria Alexandra Berková Short Fiction
89 Of the Minotaur D. E. Lucas Short Story
91 The Comedy of Art B E Turner Short Story
98 Poster Mauricio Rosales Short Story
100 Openings Richard Kostelanetz Short Fiction
103 The Best of the Besht Harry White Short Story
108 Witness Bruce Holland Rogers Short Story
109 The Ledger Angel Bruce Holland Rogers Short Story
111 A Betrayal Brian Biswas Short Story
116 semantical studies Jiří Valoch Short Fiction
119 The Man in the Red Raincoat J. B. Mulligan Short Story
119 The Message J. B. Mulligan Short Story
120 A White Chair J. B. Mulligan Short Story
121 All-Girl Band Utahna Faith Short Story
122 News from Burgundia Emilio Martinez Short Story
128 Giraffe D. Harlan Wilson Short Story
131 Seven Pieces of Meat David Ray Short Story
135 A Small, Cold Sun Vít Erban Short Story
137 The Belly of the Centipede Vít Erban Short Story
140 Mayoral Morbitas Stephanie Hammer Short Story
141 Sewing Peter Grandbois Short Story
143 From The Coconut Ape Tomáš Přidal Short Fiction
147 All I Misunderstood As a Man Makes Complete Sense As a Parrot José Chaves Short Story
149 On International Imagination Alice Whittenburg Essay
152 What Is Irrealism? G. S. Evans Essay
159 The Waking Dream: A Review of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled Garrett Rowlan Essay
162 Irrealism Is Not a Surrealism: A Consideration of Analogon #32 (The Czech and Slovak Surrealists) G. S. Evans Essay
165 Irrealism and the Visual Arts Garrett Rowlan Essay
168 From "American Irrealism and the Cult of Experience" G. S. Evans Essay
176 From "Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility" Dean Swinford Essay
185 A Response to "Defining Irrealism" G. S. Evans Essay
189 A Response to "A Response to 'Defining Irrealism'" Dean Swinford Essay
192 Irrealism and the Dream-State G. S. Evans Essay
194 From "Finding the Strange in the Familiar: Irreal Stories by Women Writers" Alice Whittenburg Essay
197 Magical Realism and Its Meanings: A Not So Necessary Confusion G. S. Evans Essay
203 Irrealism and Ambient Music Garrett Rowlan Essay
207 This Could Be a Pipe: Foucault, Irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe G. S. Evans Essay
209 After Kafka: Kafka Criticism and Scholarship as a Resource in an Attempt to Promulgate a New Literary Genre G. S. Evans & Alice Whittenburg Essay
211 Afterword: On Webzines and Would-Be Literary Revolutions G. S. Evans & Alice Whittenburg Essay
159|159.5 The Unconsoled Garrett Rowlan & Kazuo Ishiguro Review