contemporary fiction – Page 2

Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Diverse Suburbias

Rowena Clarke January 12, 2013 1 Comment A Gesture Life A. M. Holmes Aloft Chang-rae Lee contemporary fiction David Lynch demographics Gary Shteyngart immigrant incorporation in Suburban America Ira Levin Jack Finney Jeffrey Eugenides Jhumpa Lahiri Junot Diaz literature Native Speaker New York Peter Weir Rick Moody suburbia suburbs Tom Perotta twenty-first-century American fiction Westchester

Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have…

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Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Transgression and Contemporary Fiction

Martyn James Colebrook September 1, 2012 2 Comments Alasdair Gray Ali Smith Anthony Burgess Bill Drummond contemporary fiction David Britton Duncan McLean Ewan Morrison genre Gothic Iain Banks Irvine Welsh James Kelman James Robertson Johnny Glynn literature Marabou Stork Nightmares Mark Manning Michael Butterworth Niall Griffiths obscenity Patrick McCabe Peter Sotos Ron Butlin Scottish Gothic Toni Davidson transgression

One of the overt criticisms directed towards popular fiction is its requirement for a formulaic structure of characters, plot and narrative, which risks perpetuating the stereotype that all such fiction is repetitious, mass-produced and lacking in depth and originality.

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