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The Literary Terrorism of Harold JaffeThe Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe is the twenty ninth issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, a Festschrift built around one of American docufiction's most uncompromising practitioners. Eckhard Gerdes edited it, which makes JEF one of the few houses to issue a critical book about Jaffe rather than only reprint him. The title's phrase is Jaffe's own register. His docufiction took news reports and court records and shifted them by a line or a

wrote that he did not so much read it as move with it

the five mininovels that close out a cycle of fifteen

a four-novel cycle set in a decaying urban-shadow city called Midtown

and fear of death that run through The Future of Giraffes and View of Delft are first sounded here

It is the fifty-seventh book the press has published counting the three proto-JEF titles before the Journal of Experimental Fiction name was adopted in 2001 (the JEF series numbering reserves some slots

The verse sits in the same lineage as his fiction

Charles Bernstein

recognized for a comic-novel structure that takes the international film festival as a working political stage and lets the form do the satire that the dialogue would otherwise have to spell out

and now this one

Meirose is a Somerville

intricately interwoven to make up for the absence of a plot

The title is drawn from Georg Trakl's 1915 poem of the same name

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