Welcome to my very low-fi website, which contains links to my recent fiction, reviews, essays, and interviews, along with a few of the older ones.
My second novel, The Guest Lecture, will be published by Grove Press in January 2023.
My first novel, Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return, was published in October of 2018.
Reviews have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly. You can read excerpts at the Brooklyn Rail and LitHub, and an interview at The Millions.
My wife Danielle and I run the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. There’s an interview with us about it at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
We both teach at Washington University in St. Louis.
I’m not on any social media, but if you want to email me,
it’s martincriker [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall in the Wall Street Journal
Antonio Muñoz Molina in the New York Times
Aldabert Stifter in the Wall Street Journal
Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport in the New York Times
Interview with Joshua Cohen at The Paris Review
Interview with Amina Cain in The Paris Review
Alasdair Gray & Dante in the Wall Street Journal
Conversation with Stephen Sparks at The Millions
Interview with Paris Review editor Nicole Rudick
Marcel Schwob in the Wall Street Journal
Clarice Lispector in the New York Times
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones in the New York Times
Fleur Jaeggy in the New York Times
Jay Parini in the Wall Street Journal
Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God in the New York Times
Ales Steger’s Absolution in the TLS
Guy de Maupassant in the Wall Street Journal
Marguerite Duras in the Wall Street Journal
Really the Blues in the Wall Street Journal
Interview with Donald Breckenridge
Orhan Pamuk in the New York Times
Interview with Jeremy M. Davies
Wolfgang Hilbig in the Wall Street Journal
Simon Leys in the Wall Street Journal
Experimental Fiction in the New York Times
Joe Brainard and Georges Perec in the Wall Street Journal
Mina Loy’s Insel in the Wall Street Journal
Fiction in the Spring 2014 Conjunctions
Daniel Anselme’s On Leave in the New York Times
Mircea Cartarescu in the London Review of Books
Karen Green’s Bough Down in the Wall Street Journal
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar in the New York Times
Professor Borges in the Wall Street Journal
Imre Kertesz in the New York Times
Declaring His Genius, Roy Morris’s biography of Oscar Wilde in America in the Wall Street Journal
Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee’s Here and Now in the New York Times
The fiction of Pierre Michon in the Wall Street Journal
Jorge Amado in the Wall Street Journal
“David Wallace” in the Brooklyn Rail
Fourteen Questions for Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Work and Play: A Conversation with Warren Motte
“Reading Viktor Shklovsky” in CONTEXT
“Reading Piotr Szewc” in CONTEXT
Article on translated literature in the Guardian
“Gilbert Sorrentino” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of 20th C Fiction
Gilbert Sorrentino’s Little Casino from the Review of Contemporary Fiction
Lyn Hejinian’s The Fatalist from Review of Contemporary Fiction
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