Stephen Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate, and has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters prize for fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and is a former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Read Part I of this excerpt from His Wife Leaves Him.
Stephen Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate, and has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters prize for fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and is a former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University.
I just love the typewritten form of this piece, and the story itself definitely makes me want to read the rest of the novel. I hope that Eckleburg continues to post progressive novel excerpts; it makes me think of the days when big-time authors used to publish full novels serially–readers would look forward to the next episode.