Author Archives: The Evan Dara Affinity

The Lost Scrapbook Wins at the Japan Translation Awards

We’re excited to announce that The Lost Scrapbook has just won the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards! On April 27, 2025, the Japan Translation Award committee met in Tokyo and named two works as recipients of this year’s Grand Prize. One of them was the Japanese translation of The Lost Scrapbook, carriedContinue reading “The Lost Scrapbook Wins at the Japan Translation Awards”

Things Ain’t What They Seem: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life

by Gilbert Sorrentino [Note: This was originally included in the second issue of Context, which was published by the Review of Contemporary Fiction in 2004. While it is technically still available in the Wayback Machine, it seemed a shame to let this piece languish in digital exile. If requested, we will be swift in takingContinue reading “Things Ain’t What They Seem: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life”

Evan Dara’s The Lost Scrapbook: First Japanese Translation

It brings us immense pleasure to announce that Evan Dara’s The Lost Scrapbook will be available in its first-ever Japanese translation this November, translated by the esteemed Yoshihiko Kihara. Known for its unique style—written without periods and narrated by countless anonymous voices—this novel has long been considered an “unread masterpiece.” Originally published in 1995, TheContinue reading “Evan Dara’s The Lost Scrapbook: First Japanese Translation”

William Gass’s Intro to Robert Coover’s The Public Burning

From William Gass’s introduction to the 1998 Grove Press edition of Robert Coover’s The Public Burning: “Written in the 1970s, published finally in 1977, about actual and imaginary events of June 1953, it could not be more current, more relevant, more right on than it is now (or whatever date the reader finds herself immured)….Continue reading “William Gass’s Intro to Robert Coover’s The Public Burning”

The Reader’s Role in Experimental Fiction

In the wilds of experimental fiction, the reader is not merely a passive recipient of story and structure but a co-conspirator in the act of creation, an often cross-eyed figure whose interpretive capabilities are summoned to fill the non-linear narrative gaps, resolve shady ambiguities, and imagine the text into meaning. The reader, in these instances,Continue reading “The Reader’s Role in Experimental Fiction”

Guiding Mose Eakins, Part 1 

by Ned Devere (@edevere17) 1. Pseudonymous  I came late to Evan Dara. You see, to entertain myself and a few like-minded others I blog pseudonymously as the pseudonymous author of certain plays and poems written in the 16th century. This requires a lot of homework, a perpetual pile of nonfiction meant to keep me fromContinue reading “Guiding Mose Eakins, Part 1 “

Steven Moore’s List of the Most Impressive Books of 2021

It’s been heartening to see the reaction to Permanent Earthquake, which was released this summer. But it’s especially cockle-warming to see a note of recognition from one of our best contemporary literary critics, Steven Moore. Moore is probably best known for his trailblazing work on William Gaddis, including his Reader’s Guide to William Gaddis’ TheContinue reading “Steven Moore’s List of the Most Impressive Books of 2021”