Steven Moore (US author)
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Steven Moore is an American author and literary critic. Best known as an authority on the novels of William Gaddis, he published the first volume of his major work The Novel: An Alternative History in April 2010.
, Steven Moore moved to Littleton, Colorado
, in 1963, where he attended Arapahoe High School (1966-69). During this time he played bass guitar in Earthquake Moving Company, the first of many rock bands he would participate in until 1975, often featuring his own compositions.
His first literary writings were poems contributed to college literary magazines. In his junior year, he switched majors from history to English, earning both a B.A. (1973) and an M.A. (1974) from the University of Northern Colorado
in Greeley. From 1974 until 1977 he worked as a substitute teacher while writing a novel (Clarinets and Candles, unpublished) and the beginnings of a second. From 1974 to 1978 he was also a member of the Colorado Concert Ballet, dancing a variety of minor roles.
Unable to find a full-time teaching position, he began working at ABC Books in Denver in 1976. Two years later he opened his own independent bookstore
, Moore Books, which he operated until selling it in 1981. During this time, he published his first works of literary criticism: a series of short notes on James Joyce
’s Finnegans Wake
in Wake Newslitter, and book reviews for a Denver arts magazine called Spree. He also wrote his first book, A Readers Guide to William Gaddis’s “The Recognitions,” published by the University of Nebraska Press
in 1982. This was followed by In Recognition of William Gaddis, a collection of essays by various hands, for which he wrote the introduction and contributed an essay. Co-edited with John Kuehl, it was published by Syracuse University Press
in 1984. A brief interest in vampire literature led to an anthology Moore edited titled Vampire in Verse, which was published in 1985.
In 1983, Moore returned to college to earn a Ph.D., first at Denver University, then at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1988. His dissertation was published the following year as William Gaddis by Twayne Publishers. During these years he continued to write essays for scholarly journals and book reviews for a variety of publications. (See list of publications, below.)
Again unable to find a teaching position, in 1988 Moore joined the staff of Dalkey Archive Press
, a small press in Illinois that also published The Review of Contemporary Fiction, to which he had contributed in the past. Moore brought two books to Dalkey that elevated it from a little-known publisher to one of the premier literary presses in America: David Markson
’s novel Wittgenstein's Mistress
(1988) and Felipe Alfau
’s Locos
, which had been published in 1936 but long neglected. Alfau then gave Moore a manuscript written in the 1940s but never published entitled Chromos, which Dalkey published in 1990 to great acclaim. It was a finalist for the National Book Award
, and along with Locos was translated into several foreign languages. Moore acquired and edited a number of other writers at Dalkey — Alan Ansen
, Rikki Ducornet
, Carole Maso
, Janice Galloway
, Alexander Theroux
, Susan Daitch
, Aurelie Sheehan
— and reprinted works by a number of his favorite writers, including Djuna Barnes
, Ronald Firbank
, Robert Coover
, Paul West
, W. M. Spackman
, John Barth
, William H. Gass
, Joseph McElroy
, Marguerite Young
, and Severo Sarduy
. In 1996, Dalkey published Moore’s Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials.
Moore was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction during this same period (1988-1996), to which he contributed many essays and book reviews. An early champion of David Foster Wallace
, he solicited Wallace’s first published essay for RCF and suggested he apply for a teaching position at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where Dalkey Archive was located. Beginning in 1990, Moore also started reviewing new fiction for the Washington Post, for which he wrote during the next twenty years. During that same period, Moore also reviewed new books for The Nation
, Chicago Tribune
, Los Angeles Times
, and other periodicals.
Due to irreconcilable differences with the publisher, Moore resigned from Dalkey in 1996, and continued in the book trade by joining Borders Books and Music later that year. After working at its first Colorado store for four years, he was promoted to book buyer for the entire chain and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan
in 2001, where he still resides, although he was laid off by Borders in January 2010. In 2001, the year he moved to Ann Arbor, Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli (Black Sparrow Press) was published. Since 2004, Moore has been writing a multi-volume history of the novel, The Novel: An Alternative History, with special attention to innovative works; the first volume appeared in April 2010 from Continuum Books. Reviewing it in the Washington Post, Alberto Manguel
wrote, "Moore tells his story with erudition and wit, and in doing so restores to the reader of good fiction confidence in the craft." In the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks
disliked its "gung ho tone" but concluded, "Moore's book has the great merit of listing and summarizing scores upon scores of stories" and that "reading these summaries is a pleasure."
Moore is the world's leading authority on the novels of William Gaddis
, whose value he discovered early and about whom he has written several books and essays. He was the guest speaker at two Gaddis symposia (Orleans, France, 2000, and Buffalo, NY, 2005), and assisted with the Chinese translation of Gaddis's J R
published in 2008. He is currently editing Gaddis's letters for publication by Dalkey Archive Press
.
Moore has long championed lengthy, innovative novels: as he told an interviewer, "generally I like 'em big and brainy." Novelist Jonathan Franzen
wrote that Moore is a "scholar whose criticism is a model of clarity and intelligent advocacy."
Biography/Career
Born outside of Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Steven Moore moved to Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado
Littleton is a Home Rule Municipality contained in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Littleton is a suburb of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and the 20th most populous city in the state of...
, in 1963, where he attended Arapahoe High School (1966-69). During this time he played bass guitar in Earthquake Moving Company, the first of many rock bands he would participate in until 1975, often featuring his own compositions.
His first literary writings were poems contributed to college literary magazines. In his junior year, he switched majors from history to English, earning both a B.A. (1973) and an M.A. (1974) from the University of Northern Colorado
University of Northern Colorado
-Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
in Greeley. From 1974 until 1977 he worked as a substitute teacher while writing a novel (Clarinets and Candles, unpublished) and the beginnings of a second. From 1974 to 1978 he was also a member of the Colorado Concert Ballet, dancing a variety of minor roles.
Unable to find a full-time teaching position, he began working at ABC Books in Denver in 1976. Two years later he opened his own independent bookstore
Independent bookstore
An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned.-Literary and countercultural history:Author events at independent bookstores sometimes take the role of literary salons. The bookstores themselves, "have historically supported and cultivated the work of independent...
, Moore Books, which he operated until selling it in 1981. During this time, he published his first works of literary criticism: a series of short notes on James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
’s Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's...
in Wake Newslitter, and book reviews for a Denver arts magazine called Spree. He also wrote his first book, A Readers Guide to William Gaddis’s “The Recognitions,” published by the University of Nebraska Press
University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is a publisher of scholarly and popular-press books. It is the second-largest state university press in the United States and, including private institutions, ranks among the 10 largest university presses in the United States...
in 1982. This was followed by In Recognition of William Gaddis, a collection of essays by various hands, for which he wrote the introduction and contributed an essay. Co-edited with John Kuehl, it was published by Syracuse University Press
Syracuse University Press
Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. The areas of focus for the Press include Middle East Studies, Native American Studies, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Irish Studies and Jewish Studies, among others. The Press has an international...
in 1984. A brief interest in vampire literature led to an anthology Moore edited titled Vampire in Verse, which was published in 1985.
In 1983, Moore returned to college to earn a Ph.D., first at Denver University, then at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1988. His dissertation was published the following year as William Gaddis by Twayne Publishers. During these years he continued to write essays for scholarly journals and book reviews for a variety of publications. (See list of publications, below.)
Again unable to find a teaching position, in 1988 Moore joined the staff of Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Illinois in the United States, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser known, often avant-garde works...
, a small press in Illinois that also published The Review of Contemporary Fiction, to which he had contributed in the past. Moore brought two books to Dalkey that elevated it from a little-known publisher to one of the premier literary presses in America: David Markson
David Markson
David Markson was an American novelist, born David Merrill Markson in Albany, New York. He is the author of several postmodern novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block...
’s novel Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel by David Markson. It is a highly stylized, experimental novel in the tradition of Beckett. The novel is mainly a series of statements made in the first person; the protagonist is a woman who believes herself to be the last human on earth...
(1988) and Felipe Alfau
Felipe Alfau
Felipe Alfau was a Catalan American novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino.Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated...
’s Locos
LOCOS
LOCOS, short for LOCal Oxidation of Silicon, is a microfabrication process where silicon dioxide is formed in selected areas on a silicon wafer having the Si-SiO2 interface at a lower point than the rest of the silicon surface....
, which had been published in 1936 but long neglected. Alfau then gave Moore a manuscript written in the 1940s but never published entitled Chromos, which Dalkey published in 1990 to great acclaim. It was a finalist for the National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
, and along with Locos was translated into several foreign languages. Moore acquired and edited a number of other writers at Dalkey — Alan Ansen
Alan Ansen
Alan Ansen was an American poet, playwright, and associate of Beat Generation writers. He was a widely-read scholar who knew many languages. Ansen grew up on Long Island and was educated at Harvard. He worked as W. H...
, Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet is an American postmodernist, writer, poet, and artist.-Biography:...
, Carole Maso
Carole Maso
Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often called postmodern. She received a B.A. in English from Vassar College in 1977. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, an NEA fellowship, and...
, Janice Galloway
Galloway
Galloway is an area in southwestern Scotland. It usually refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire...
, Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux is an American novelist, poet, and essayist.He was born in Medford, Massachusetts. His brother is Paul Theroux. He studied at Harvard University and Yale University...
, Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch is an American artist and writer.-Biography:Susan Daitch attended Barnard College, graduating in 1977...
, Aurelie Sheehan
Aurelie Sheehan
Aurelie Sheehan is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as a collection of stories, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. She is the director of the creative writing program at the University of...
— and reprinted works by a number of his favorite writers, including Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and '30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens...
, Ronald Firbank
Ronald Firbank
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was a British novelist.-Biography:Ronald Firbank was born in London, the son of society lady Harriet Jane Garrett and MP Sir Thomas Firbank. He went to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907...
, Robert Coover
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
, Paul West
Paul West
Paul West may refer to:*Paul West , English soccer player*Paul West , British-born American writer*Paul West, pseudonym of Stephen Clarke...
, W. M. Spackman
W. M. Spackman
William Mode Spackman was an American writer. He was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the son of George Harvey Spackman and Alice Pennock Mode. A graduate of the Friends School of Wilmington, Delaware and in 1927 of Princeton University , he was also a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford...
, John Barth
John Barth
John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...
, William H. Gass
William H. Gass
William Howard Gass is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award...
, Joseph McElroy
Joseph McElroy
Joseph McElroy is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.McElroy grew up in Brooklyn Heights, NY, a neighborhood that features prominently in much of his fiction. He received his B.A. from Williams College in 1951 and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952...
, Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young
Marguerite Vivian Young was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism. Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism....
, and Severo Sarduy
Severo Sarduy
Severo Sarduy was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.-Biography:...
. In 1996, Dalkey published Moore’s Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials.
Moore was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction during this same period (1988-1996), to which he contributed many essays and book reviews. An early champion of David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
, he solicited Wallace’s first published essay for RCF and suggested he apply for a teaching position at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where Dalkey Archive was located. Beginning in 1990, Moore also started reviewing new fiction for the Washington Post, for which he wrote during the next twenty years. During that same period, Moore also reviewed new books for The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, and other periodicals.
Due to irreconcilable differences with the publisher, Moore resigned from Dalkey in 1996, and continued in the book trade by joining Borders Books and Music later that year. After working at its first Colorado store for four years, he was promoted to book buyer for the entire chain and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
in 2001, where he still resides, although he was laid off by Borders in January 2010. In 2001, the year he moved to Ann Arbor, Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli (Black Sparrow Press) was published. Since 2004, Moore has been writing a multi-volume history of the novel, The Novel: An Alternative History, with special attention to innovative works; the first volume appeared in April 2010 from Continuum Books. Reviewing it in the Washington Post, Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places , A History of Reading , The Library at Night and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography ; and novels such as News...
wrote, "Moore tells his story with erudition and wit, and in doing so restores to the reader of good fiction confidence in the craft." In the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks
Tim Parks
Tim Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.-Life:Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the son of a clergyman. He grew up in Finchley , London and was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard. He has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981...
disliked its "gung ho tone" but concluded, "Moore's book has the great merit of listing and summarizing scores upon scores of stories" and that "reading these summaries is a pleasure."
Moore is the world's leading authority on the novels of William Gaddis
William Gaddis
William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards and one of which, The Recognitions , was chosen as one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005...
, whose value he discovered early and about whom he has written several books and essays. He was the guest speaker at two Gaddis symposia (Orleans, France, 2000, and Buffalo, NY, 2005), and assisted with the Chinese translation of Gaddis's J R
J R
J R is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1975 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., J R was Gaddis's second novel and received the National Book Award in 1976....
published in 2008. He is currently editing Gaddis's letters for publication by Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Illinois in the United States, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser known, often avant-garde works...
.
Moore has long championed lengthy, innovative novels: as he told an interviewer, "generally I like 'em big and brainy." Novelist Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
wrote that Moore is a "scholar whose criticism is a model of clarity and intelligent advocacy."
Books
- A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's "The Recognitions." University of Nebraska Press, 1982. German translation published by Zweitausendeins ( Frankfurt ), 1998.
- William Gaddis. Twayne, 1989.
- Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials, 1905-1995. Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.
- The Novel, An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600. Continuum, 2010.
Anthologies and editions
- In Recognition of William Gaddis . Edited by John R. Kuehl and SM. Syracuse University Press, 1984. ["Introduction," 1-19; " Peer Gynt and The Recognitions ," 81-91, and annotated bibliography, 199-206, by SM]
- The Vampire in Verse. Edited [with an introduction and extensive notes] by SM. Dracula Press, 1985.
- Edward Dahlberg. Samuel Beckett's Wake and Other Uncollected Prose. Edited with an introduction by SM. Dalkey Archive Press, 1989.
- Ronald Firbank. Complete Short Stories . Edited [and with textual notes] by SM. Dalkey Archive Press, 1990. Published in England [with additional material] as The Early Firbank. Quartet, 1991.
- Olive Moore. Collected Writings . Edited [with an appendix] by SM. Dalkey Archive, 1992.
- Ronald Firbank. Complete Plays. Edited with an introduction by SM. Dalkey Archive 1992.
- W. M. Spackman, Complete Fiction. Edited with an afterword by SM. Dalkey Archive, 1997.
- Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli. Edited with an introduction by SM. Black Sparrow, 2001.
- Medieval Epics and Sagas. Edited with a preface by SM. Borders Classics, 2005.
- Chandler Brossard, Over the Rainbow? Hardly: Selected Short Seizures. Edited with an introduction by SM. Sun Dog Press, 2005.
Articles, notes, and contributions to books
- "David in Crimea ." A Wake Newslitter: Studies of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." [AWN] 13 (December 1976): 115-16.
- "For the Record." AWN 13 (December 1976): 118.
- "Oliver Cromwell." AWN 14 (April 1977): 29-30.
- "Luperca Latouche." AWN 17 (April 1980): 25.
- "I Ching." AWN 17 (April 1980): 25.
- "Chronological Difficulties in the Novels of William Gaddis." Critique 22 (September 1980): 79-91.
- "An Interview with William Gaddis." Review of Contemporary Fiction [RCF] 2.2 (Summer 1982): 4-6. (with John Kuehl)
- "William Gaddis: A Selected Bibliography." RCF 2.2 (Summer 1992): 55-56.
- "Pynchon on Record." Pynchon Notes 10 (October 1982): 56-57.
- "Subject Index (1962-1980)." AWN , special supplement (December 1982): I-vi.
- "‘Parallel, Not Series': Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis." Pynchon Notes 11 (February 1983): 6-26.
- "Additional Sources for Gaddis's The Recognitions." American Notes & Queries 22 (March/April 1984): 111-15.
- "‘The World Is at Fault.'" Pynchon Notes 15 (Fall 1984): 84-85.
- "Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat and the Tradition of Learned Wit." Contemporary Literature 27 (Summer 1986): 233-45.
- "An Interview with Chandler Brossard ." RCF 7.1 (Spring 1987): 38-53.
- "Chandler Brossard: An Introduction and Checklist." RCF 7.1 (Spring 1987): 58-86.
- "William Gaddis: Sidelights Essay." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Edited by Deborah A. Straub. Gale Research Co., 1987. 21:148-53.
- "Gaddis's J R." The Explicator 47.1 (Fall 1988): 55.
- "Introduction." Alan Ansen, Contact Highs: Selected Poems 1957-1987. Dalkey Archive, 1989. xi-xxxiv.
- "Joseph McElroy: A Bibliography." RCF 10.1 (Spring 1990): 283-88.
- "David Markson and the Art of Allusion." RCF 10.2 (Summer 1990): 164-78.
- "William Gaddis: la fascination du labyrinthe." Maggazine littéraire, October 1990, 95-97.
- "Alexander Theroux: An Introduction." RCF 11.1 (Spring 1991): 7-28.
- "An Interview with Alexander Theroux." RCF 11.1 (Spring 1991): 29-35.
- "Alexander Theroux: A Bibliography." RCF 11.1 (Spring 1991): 133-39.
- "Afterword." Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack. Dalkey Archive, 1992. 87-91.
- "Recalled to Life." RCF 13.1 (Spring 1993): 245-47. [on Felipe Alfau]
- "Brigid Brophy: An Introduction and Checklist." RCF 15.3 (Fall 1995): 7-11.
- "Foreword." The Letters of Wanda Tinasky. Edited by T. R. Factor. Vers Libre Press, 1996. ix-xi.
- "A New Language for Desire: Aureole. " RCF 17.3 (Fall 1997): 206-14.
- "Reveries of Desire: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet." Bloomsbury Review, January/February 1998, 11-12.
- "Sheri Martinelli: A Remembrance." Anais 16 (Spring 1998): 92-102.
- "Sheri Martinelli: A Modernist Muse." Gargoyle 41 (Summer 1998): 29-54.
- "Foreword." Chandler Brossard. Who Walk in Darkness. Herodias, 2000.
- "Fairies and Nymphs: The Fiction of Francesca Lia Block." Rain Taxi 5.4 (Winter 2000-01): 32-33.
- "Foreword." Chandler Brossard. The Bold Saboteurs. Herodias, 2001.
- "Nympholepsy." Gargoyle 45 (October 2002): 9-22.
- "The First Draft Version of Infinite Jest. " Howling Fantods website, posted 9 May 2003. http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/ij_first.htm
- Untitled contribution to "William Gaddis: A Portfolio." Conjunctions 41 (November 2003): 387.
- "Carpenter's Gothic; or, The Ambiguities." in William Gaddis: Bloom's Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 101-24.
- “Paper Flowers: Richard Brautigan's Poetry.” In Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life. Ed. John F. Barber. Jefferson , NC : McFarland & Co., 2006. 188-204.
- “The Secret History of Agape Agape.” In Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System. Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers. Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press, 2007. 256-66.
- "David Foster Wallace In Memoriam." Modernism/Modernity 16.1 (January 2010): 1-3.
- "William Gaddis: The Nobility of Failure." Critique 51 (February 2010): 118-20.
- "When Knighthood Was in Error." College Hill Review no. 5 (Spring 2010): http://www.collegehillreview.com/005/0050901.html
External links
- Continuum Books pages with large sampling of The Novel: An Alternative History
- Steven Moore web site
- William Gaddis web site with texts of Steven Moore books
- An interview with Steven Moore on The Marketplace of Ideas