Review of Contemporary Fiction

Arthur M. Saltzman, "Where Words Dwell Adored: An Introduction to William Gass"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "Language and Conscience: An Interview with William Gass"/William H. Gass, "Simplicities"/William H. Gass, "Sweets"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "William H. Gass: Selected Correspondence"/Philip Stevick, "William Gass and the Real World"/Lucy Wilson, "Alternatives to Transcendence in William Gass's Short Fiction"/Kevin J. H. Dettmar, "'yung and easily freudened': William Gass's The Pedersen Kid'"/Melanie Eckford-Prossor, "Layered Apparitions: Philosophy and 'The Pedersen Kid'"/Richard J. Schneider, "Rejecting the Stone: William Gass and Emersonian Transcendence"/Reginald Dyck, "William Gass: A 'Purified Modernist' in a Postmodern World"/Ilan Stavans, "Kafka, Cortazar, Gass"/Heide Ziegler, "On Translating 'The Sunday Drive'"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "A William H. Gass Checklist"/Ilan Stavans, "Good-Bye to M. P." /Jorgelina Corbatta, "Brief Encounter: An Interview with Manuel Puig"/Manuel Puig, "Vivaldi: A Screenplay"/Guillermo Cabrera Infante, "In a Pampas of Dreams"/Juan Goytisolo, "On Being Morally Correct"/Suzanne Jill Levine, "Manuel Puig Exits Laughing"/Pamela Bacarisse, "Manuel Puig and the Uses of Culture"/Shari A. Zimmerman, "Manuel Puig and the Critique of Authority"/Lucille Kerr, "In the Presence of the Author"/Roberto Echavarren, "Manuel Puig: Contra Borges"/Brian Conniff, "The Learned Executioner and the Chick from Suburbia: Kiss of the Spider Woman as Prison Literature"/Jorgelina Corbatta, "A Glimpse of the Fantastic in Puig"/Steven DuPouy, "Brazilian Nights, Argentine Voices: Tropical Night Falling"/Elias Miguel Munoz, "Show and Tell: Notes on Puig's Theater"/Books by Manuel Puig/Paul West, "Deep-Sixed into the Atlantic"

John O'Brien founded the Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1981.