WENDY WALKER

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

My Man and Other Critical Fictions, a volume of critical fictions, forthcoming from Temporary Culture, October 2011.
Excerpt from SEXUAL STEALING in I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, ed. Vanessa Place, Laynie Brown, Caroline Bergvall, Les Figues, forthcoming 2011.
Hysterical Operators: The Inspector of Factories Visits the Lover of Melodrama, Proteotypes/​Libellulae #2, 2010.
Excerpt from SEXUAL STEALING in Re: Telling, ed. William Walsh, Ampersand Press, 2011.
"Oulipian Whatnots," Mad Hatters Review, ed. Carol Novak, 2010.
"Train,' a filigrane, in Marginalia, ed. Alicita Rodriguez, 2010.
"In the beginning was my wishing" at Galerie de Difformité, ed. Gretchen Henderson, 2010, http:/​/​difformite.wordpress.com/​exhibit-y/​.
"Sexual Stealing" (essay on the origins of the Gothic novel in Jamaica and Haiti), at www.exploringfictions.blogspot.com, ed. Douglas Messerli, 2010.
"Imagination and Prison" (essay) in NARRATIVE POWER, ed. L. Timmel Duchamp, Aqueduct Press, 2010.
BLUE FIRE, a poetic non-fiction, Proteotypes, 2009.
"Train," a filigrane, in TRANSPORT, artists book edited by Alicita Rodriguez, and designed and printed by Alicita Rodriguez and Tom Parson, 2009.
Excerpt from Blue Fire in THE &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing, edited by Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman and Steve Tomasula, Lake Forest College Press, 2009.
"Libraries and War" (with Tom La Farge), Marginalia, ed. Alicita Rodriguez, Winter 2009.
"Oulipo: The Freedom of Constraint" (with Tom La Farge) in NYFA Current, ed. Nick Stillman, March 2008.
"Sexual Stealing," an essay on the origins of Gothic literature, in THE WISCON CHRONICLES 2, edited by L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn for Aqueduct Press, May 2008.
A homophonic translation of an Anglo-Saxon poem in Issue 6 of Circumference, edited by Stefania Heim and Jennifer Kronovet.
An excerpt from BLUE FIRE in the fall 2007 issue of The New Review of Literature, edited by Paul Vangelisti.
An excerpt from BLUE FIRE in the Green Integer Review #8, March-May 2007, edited by Douglas Messerli.
Nine poems by Abdelkrim Tabal, translated by myself and Rabia Zbakh, in 26, issue f, edited by Avery Burns and Brian Strang, April 2007.
An excerpt from BLUE FIRE in the online journal Projected Letters, edited by Gregor Milne, at www.projectedletters.com.
"Hysterical Operators: The Inspector of Factories Visits the Lover of Melodrama," a critical fiction, is in the Winter 2007 issue of the online journal English Studies Forum, edited by Trey Strecker, at www.bsu.edu/​web/​esf/​.
Three poems by Abdelkrim Tabal, translated by myself and Rabia Zbakh, in Marginalia (Fall 2006, Vol.2, Issue 3), ed. Alicita Rodriguez.
"Home," a poem by Abdelkrim Tabal, translated by myself and Rabia Zbakh, Circumference #5 (Autumn-Winter 2006-7), ed. Stefania Heim and Jennifer Kronovet.
KNOTS (a selection of tales from THE SEA-RABBIT and STORIES OUT OF OMARIE), ed. L. Timmel Duchamp, (Seattle: Aqueduct Press), October 2006.
"Letter to Guy Davenport," in TALKING BACK, ed. L. Timmel Duchamp (Seattle: Aqueduct Press), April 2006.
Selections from BLUE FIRE appeared in Marginalia, ed. Alicita Rodriguez, Fall 2005.
"A Fugitive's Guide to the Fortunate Isles," a critical fiction on six contemporary American fiction writers, 3rd Bed, ed. Vince Standley, Summer 2004.
"Sophie in the Catacombs," an excerpt from a novel-in-progress entitled THE CITY UNDER THE BED, Open City, ed. Joanna Yas, June 2004.
"Shadowing," an excerpt from THE CITY UNDER THE BED, in The Denver Quarterly, ed. Paul Maliszewski, Spring 2004.
"Olaudah Equiano Crosses the Ice" a critical fiction on The Very Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, aka Gustavus Vassa, at www.fantasticmetropolis.com, ed. L. Timmel Duchamp, 2004.
"Stalking" a comic, with visual artist Florence Neal, in CHAIN, vol. 8, eds. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr, 2001.
"My Man" a critical fiction on Conrad's Nostromo, in THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARDS FOR INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY 1994-5. Edited by Douglas Messerli. (L.A.: Sun & Moon Press, 1996).
"A Document from the Secret Archive of Grent Oude Wayl, Esquire" a critical fiction on Harry Mathews, in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, ed. Herbert Leibowitz, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 & 2, 1995.
"A Story out of Omarie," a tale, in 50: A CELEBRATION OF SUN AND MOON CLASSICS, ed. Douglas Messerli (L.A.: Sun & Moon Press, 1995).
STORIES OUT OF OMARIE, a volume of allegories about love and narrative based on the lais of Marie de France and anonymous contemporaries (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, Classics Series, 1995).
"My Man," a critical fiction on Conrad's NOSTROMO, in Conjunctions 22, ed. Bradford Morrow, Spring 1994.
"Deadlock, or, The Two Titles," a tale, in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, ed. Herbert Leibowitz, Fall 1993.
"Swan Hunger," a tale, in Fiction International, eds. Larry McCaffery and Harold Jaffe, Spring 1993.
THE SECRET SERVICE, a novel (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, Classics Series, 1992).
"The Children of Montjoie," a tale, in Conjunctions 18, ed. Bradford Morrow, Spring 1992.
"Laüstic," a tale, in FICTION SOUTH/​FICTION NORTH, eds. Richard Milazzo and Tricia Collins (Tallahassee and New York: Ridgefield Press, 1992).
THE SEA-RABBIT, OR, THE ARTIST OF LIFE, tales (L.A.: Sun & Moon Press, New American Fiction Series, 1988, Classics Series 1994).
"Balthus' Picture-Book," an essay, in IRONWOOD 24, ed. Michael Cuddihy, Fall, 1984.


TRANSLATIONS:

An Italian translation of THE SEA-RABBIT by Edizioni Theoria of Rome.


COLLABORATIONS:

DISTANT FLAMES by Abdelkrim Tabal, translated by Wendy Walker and Rabia Zbakh, book designed and made by Florence Neal. Exhibited at the Proteus Gowanus Gallery/​Reading Room in Brooklyn, 2006, in its Travel Show. Also exhibited in "New York/​Paris DIALOGUE Paris/​New York," curated by Maddy Rosenberg, at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan and Le Trait Association Committee, Paris, 9/​23/​2005-12/​3/​2005.

"... a different forest," Ten sculptural print trees by Florence Neal with text by Wendy Walker. A public art project commissioned by Art Omaha in memory of Roberta Rogers. Presented to the Omaha Public Library, Omaha, Nebraska, November 2003.

"Screen Memories," Installation by Wendy Walker and Florence Neal, black and white prints with text on paper screens. The subject is that of BLUE FIRE, Constance Kent and the "great crime of 1860." Main Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Lobby Gallery, 12/​28/​2001-2/​28/​2002.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Entry in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, ed. Jack Zipes (Oxford UP, 2000)
Entry in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, ed. John Clute and John Grant (St. Martin’s, 1997)

Reviews of Knots:

Locus by Jeff VanderMeer, at www.locusmag.com/​Features/​2007/​01/​2006-twelve-overlooked-books.html.
Locus Magazine in Short Takes by Faren Miller, 1/​07.
Tangent On Line by Nicole McClain, 16 December 2006, at www.tangentonline.com.


Reviews of Stories Out of Omarie:

The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 16, No. 1, "The Future of Fiction," 1996.
The Stranger, 2/​28/​96 by Jack Byrne. Also at http:/​/​scopes.real.com/​real/​player.html

Reviews of The Secret Service:

Internet review by Ian Davey, 2002, text at www.eclipse.co.uk/​sweetdespise/​recom/​reviews/​ww_tss.html
Wired, by David Wilson, at www.wired/​com/​archive/​10,04/​streetcred.html?pg=8-35k
The New York Review of Science Fiction, 3/​00, by Henry Wessells.
Internet review by Robert Beveridge, 1999, text at www.popcontrol.com/​print/​bookreviews/​secretservice.shtml
The New York Review of Science Fiction, No. 72, 8/​94, by Ray Davis; also an Internet review, text at www.best.com/​raydavis/​secret.html
Internet review, text at www.ai.mit.edu, by Elizabeth Willey, 3/​9/​96.
The Independent (U.K.), 7/​24/​93, by Adrian Dannatt.
Publishers Weekly, 8/​31/​92.
Temporary Culture, Fall '92, by Henry Wessells.

Reviews of The Sea-Rabbit:

Danielle Alexander, "Constructing the Uncanny," Marginalia, Vol.2, Issue 3, Fall 2006.
Internet review by Ian Davey, 2002, text at www.jp41.dial.pipex.comR589.HTML
Internet review, text at www.ai.mit.edu, by Elizabeth Willey, 3/​9/​96.
The Independent (U.K.), 7/​24/​93, by Adrian Dannatt.
Publishers Weekly, 8/​31/​92.
Temporary Culture, Fall '92, by Henry Wessells.
Jack Zipes, Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. A discussion of The Sea-Rabbit in Chapter 6:
"The Contemporary American Fairy Tale").
Marc Chénetier, "Metamorphoses of The Metamorphoses: Patricia Eakins, Wendy Walker, Don Webb," in NEW LITERARY HISTORY, ed. Ralph Cohen, Vol. 23, Spring 1992, and at http:/​/​www.jstor.org/​pss/​469242.
Internet review, text at www.ai.mit.edu, by Elizabeth Willey, 3/​9/​96.
American Book Review, May-June 1990.
Boston Globe, Fall '89 (? sent without date).
Los Angeles Times, 1/​22/​89.
Publishers Weekly, 9/​2/​88.
Kirkus Reviews, 8/​1/​88.