About the Book
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ has been publishing radically alternative narratives, mostly in literary magazines, for over three decades. Among the many books and chapbooks printing his fictions are In the Beginning (1971), Short Fictions (1974), Numbers: Poems & Stories (1974), Openings & Closings (1975), Constructs (1975), Come Here (1975), One Night Stood (1977), Constructs Two (1978), Foresthortenings and Other Stories (1978), Tabula Rasa (1978), Inexistences (1978), Exhaustive Parallel Intervals (1979), More Short Fictions (1980), Reincarnations (1981), Epiphanies (1983), Constructs Three-Six (four books, 1991), Flipping: A Constructivist Novel (1991), Fifty Constructivist Stories (1991), Intermix (1991), Two-Element Stories (2003), Minimal Fictions (1996), 3-Element Stories (1998), Seven Jewish Short Fictions (2007), Furtherest Fictions (2007), Micro Stories (2010), Thrice (2010), Erotic Minimal Fictions (2010), Epiphanies Complete (2011), Lovings (2011), More Openings & Closings (2011), Epiphanies I & II (2012), 1001 Enumerated Stories (2012), Openings (2012), Minimal Erotic Fictions (2012), GhoStories (2012), Verbal Fictions (2012), Visual Fictions (2013), Conceptual Fictions (2012), CF 1 (2013), Symmetries (2013), GhoSTories (2013), To&Fro& (2013), Ops & Clos (2013), Homophones: Stories ( 2013), and 1-99 (2013).
About the Author: Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked. For over thirty years his Epiphanies have appeared in literary magazines.
