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Published WorksMAJOR PUBLICATIONS: An excerpt from SEXUAL STEALING, an Oulipian exegesis of Ann Radcliffe's MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, is forthcoming in the anthology BORROWED PREMISE, edited by William Walsh. "Visual Art and the Literature of the Transreal," a long essay, is forthcoming in book form from Aqueduct Press. "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. BLUE FIRE will be published as a book/ 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/ 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/ 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/ "... 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/ 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/ Locus Magazine in Short Takes by Faren Miller, 1/ 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/ Reviews of The Secret Service: Internet review by Ian Davey, 2002, text at www.eclipse.co.uk/ Wired, by David Wilson, at www.wired/ The New York Review of Science Fiction, 3/ Internet review by Robert Beveridge, 1999, text at www.popcontrol.com/ The New York Review of Science Fiction, No. 72, 8/ Internet review, text at www.ai.mit.edu, by Elizabeth Willey, 3/ The Independent (U.K.), 7/ Publishers Weekly, 8/ 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/ The Independent (U.K.), 7/ Publishers Weekly, 8/ 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. Internet review, text at www.ai.mit.edu, by Elizabeth Willey, 3/ American Book Review, May-June 1990. Boston Globe, Fall '89 (? sent without date). Los Angeles Times, 1/ Publishers Weekly, 9/ Kirkus Reviews, 8/ |
We have moved to Brooklyn! Please get in touch: wwalker102@  KNOTS NEWS Tom La Farge and I will be offering another Oulipo Workshop at Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union St., Brooklyn, NY on Saturday May 10 from 3-5 PM. $20. I will be at WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2008. I will be at the &NOW Festival at Chapman University, Los Angeles, in April 2008. BLUE FIRE will be published as a book/ I am a partner in PROTEOTYPES, the publishing arm of Proteus Gowanus, an interdisciplinary gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Our first publication is THE PLAY BOOK, in conjunction with the opening of the 2007-8 exhibition "Play." Another major project is a book about Alfred Tredway White, Brooklyn social visionary, and pioneer in the creation of beautiful sunlit housing for the 19th century working class. A DVD of "Libraries and Danger" is in the works, to be published by Proteotypes. |
