Fiction of the Eighties

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Contributors

Reginald Gibbons (General Editor)

Susan Fireston Hahn (Editor)

Publication Date

January 1990

Fiction of the Eighties

A Decade of Stories from TriQuarterly

Reginald Gibbons and Susan Firestone Hahn

This special issue of TriQuarterly presents a decade of stories by such writers as Raymond Carver, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Barthelme, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Bly, and many others.

About the Author

Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Gibbons is the author of more than half a dozen collections of poetry.

Poet, editor, playwright, and novelist Susan Firestone Hahn was born and raised in and around Chicago. She earned a BA and MA in psychology from Northwestern University and trained as an art therapist at the Gestalt Institute of Chicago before turning her attention to poetry. Hahn has published numerous poetry collections.

Reviews

"Perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction." --New York Times

"TriQuarterly [has] managed to present some of the most stimulating new writing of the age ... [and] has fulfilled the classic function of a literary magazine in the twentieth century." --Times Literary Supplement

"TriQuarterly has consistently published some of the most provocative of contemporary literature."

—Booklist