The Laugh That Laughs at the Laugh: Writing from and about the Pen Man, Raymond Federman: Journal of Experimental Fiction 23

Not only is this volume of the Journal of Experimental Fiction series a tribute to great French-American novelist and Holocaust survivor Raymond Federman by more than 30 friends and colleagues, including Jerome Klinkowitz, Charles Bernstein, Doug Rice, Larry McCaffery, Mark Amerika, Ronald Sukenick, Lance Olsen, and other well-known writers and critics, but also it features several wonderful unpublished works of fiction by Raymond Federman himself, including fiction from his early years as a student at Columbia University to a large excerpt from his current novel-in-progress.

Eckhard Gerdes teaches creative writing and English at Macon State College. He earned an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the author of three previously published novels. He lives with his wife, filmmaker Persis Gerdes, and their sons, Sterling, Ludwig, and Ulysses.