And even when the talk turns to American fiction, there is politics in the air.

His is among the strongest writing now being done in American fiction.

And if the thinking in the rest of American fiction isn't always systematic, it is certainly about systems.

Would you care to make a concluding remark about the state of American fiction?

There will be good books and not so good ones, just as with American fiction.

However, this led to an interest in reading British and American science fiction.

He's the first existential character in American fiction, a guy with no ties.

The location takes on the role of the wilderness as used in early American gothic fiction.

And no more vividly pitiful scene has ever been written in American fiction.

Every once in a while a book comes along that upends popular notions of American fiction.