Othello Blues

Othello BluesOthello Blues is the one novel on JEF's Harold Jaffe shelf with two lives: first published by FictionNet in 1996, then revised and reissued by JEF Books in 2014. The reissue is the version the press stands behind, the book as Jaffe wanted it left. Unlike the docufiction collections he is best known for, this is sustained narrative. Jaffe sets Shakespeare's tragedy in a near future New York City and the Mississippi delta and recasts the principals as a

The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot is Eckhard Gerdes's 733-page novel

the wartime adolescence in the book is built directly out of that arc

a widowed retired psychoanalyst with University of Chicago degrees in literature

The fifth JEF novel from Frederick Mark Kramer

Tarnawsky framed his approach to writing

Manuel Marrero

A resident of Lisbon boards the yellow streetcar

and the fictmoir is what happens when that habit of reporting turns on a life rather than a story

this is sustained narrative

and dozens more

It is the late novel where the autobiographical pressure runs most direct

between a young orphan's waking life and a dream world that keeps pulling at him