![]() Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. With his new fiction collection, Counternarratives(New Directions) , Whiting Writer’s Award winner and long-time member of The Dark Room Collective, John Keene provides illuminating alternative narratives to the standard North American mythos: ![]() J“The stories in Counternarratives trouble contemporary narrative conventions in American fiction, in part through an emphasis on storytelling in itself through a play with structure, genre and voice and through the queerness of the characters themselves.” ![]() John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer ![]()
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