Forms of Crisis: Harry Mathews & Joseph McElroy (with Obstruction) by Harry Mathews & Joseph McElroy

Summary: The obstruction, for Mathews and McElroy, being their microphones; now, for the listener, the degraded quality of this audio file, a recording of the two great American writers in conversation on October 21 at 177 Livingston, hosted by Triple Canopy. <br><br> When <a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/26/articles/1165" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Harry Mathews</a> published his first poems in 1956, he was associated with the so-called New York School of poets, with three of whom (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler) he founded the review <em>Locus Solus</em> in 1961. Through his friendship with Georges Perec, he became a member of the Oulipo in 1972. Mathews is the author of six novels and several collections of poetry. <br><br><a href="http://www.josephmcelroy.com/" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;">Joseph McElroy,</a> born in Brooklyn in 1930, is the author of nine novels, including <em>A Smuggler's Bible</em>, <em>Hind's Kidnap</em>, <em>Ancient History: A Paraphase</em>, <em>Lookout Cartridge, Plus, Women and Men,</em> <em>The Letter Left to Me</em>, <em>Actress in the House</em>, and <em>Cannonball</em> (forthcoming).