Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino (born 1927) is an American novelist and poet. He recently retired from his position as a professor of English at Stanford University.

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1927 - American - Stanford University

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During his early adulthood he founded a literary magazine called Neon along with some friends, including Hubert Selby Jr., Fielding Dawson, and LeRoi Jones. Between 1965 and 1970 he was editor for Kulchur magazine and worked as an editor for the publisher Grove Press. His first novel, The Sky Changes, was published in 1966. Notable among his many other novels are Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Blue Pastoral, and Mulligan Stew. The latter novel, a humorous postmodern romp, riffs on the metafictional possibilities introduced in Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds, and is one of Sorrentino's most popular works.

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Hubert Selby Jr. - Fielding Dawson - LeRoi Jones - 1965 - 1970 - 1966 - Mulligan Stew - Postmodern - Metafictional - Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds

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