Gilbert Sorrentino

Articles and excerpts on RSB

A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles from The Moon In Its Flight
Pair of Deuces from A Strange Commonplace
Sea of Cold from Lunar Follies
The Tomato Episode from Little Casino


Robert Creeley's Afterword to GS's Splendide-Hôtel
The Act of Creation and Its Artifact (from the Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1981)
Something Said: Hubert Selby Jnr on GS (from the Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1981)
Two extracts from Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things


Excerpts

Excerpt from A Strange Commonplace at Poets & Writers
Excerpt from A Strange Commonplace at Brooklyn Rail


General articles

Gerald Howard on GS in Bookforum
Jacket magazine feature on Gilbert Sorrentino
Lannan.org on GS
Mad Ink Beard on GS


Interviews

GS interview with Joseph Barbato
GS interview with Alexander Laurence
GS interview with John O'Brien
GS interview with Andrew Palmer


MP3s

Bookworm Interview with Michael Silverblatt (26 mb MP3)
In Conversation with Michael Silverblatt (29 mb MP3)
Reading: Four Soldiers (5 mb MP3)
Reading: The Very Picture of Loneliness (3 mb MP3)


Obituaries

Center for Book Culture
Guardian
Los Angeles Times (requires log-in)
New York Times (requires log-in)
San Francisco Chronicle
Washington Post


Reviews

New Yorker review of A Strange Commonplace
Washington Post review of Lunar Follies


Research materials

Gilbert Sorrentino Papers at the Leland Stanford Junior University



Center for Book Culture
With very many thanks to the Center for Book Culture.

Coffee House Press
And with very many thanks to the Coffee House Press.