Superfiction : or, The American story transformed : an anthology / edited by Joe David Bellamy.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Joe David Bellamy -- Unready to wear / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The elevator / Robert Coover -- Quake / Rudolph Wurlitzer -- Chiaroscuro / Ursule Molinaro -- By the river / Joyce Carol Oates -- The universal fears / John Hawkes -- Manikin / Leonard Michaels -- In which Esther gets a nose job / Thomas Pynchon -- Queen Louisa / John Gardner -- Order of insects / William H. Gass -- One's ship / Barton Midwood -- Saying good-bye to the President / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- Life-story / John Barth -- Sentence / Donald Barthelme -- The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino -- What's your story / Ronald Sukenick -- The Loup Garoo Kid / Ishmael Reed -- A lot of cowboys / Judith Rascoe -- At the national festival / John Batki -- Under the microscope / John Updike.