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MeanwhileMeanwhile is the third novel in Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle, after Apostrophe Parenthesis and Ambiguity. It follows Mario, a Jewish immigrant, navigating the city and reconciling with his past. The narrative method is the one the whole cycle runs on: dense interior monologue, recursive musical structure, the European high modernist tradition (Musil, Beckett, the French nouveau roman) carried forward in a present tense New York voice. Across

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

and watches him test whether the system would hold over the length of a book

JEF founder Eckhard Gerdes has called him the Daniel Johnston of the literary world

The narrator is a man who has come to Toledo to die

This is Hugunin's ludicakadroman at work

Opening with an introduction by Hugunin himself

Kramer lives on the Upper West Side and is a novelist

Asemic writing is mark-making that has the shape of script without fixed meaning

taking documentary source material and treating it with minimal but pointed intervention that lets the original telling expose its own ideology

also edited by Gerdes

Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author opens with a fall

Its protagonist is Dominique Valarcher