Jay Cantor

Jay Cantor was nominated by The Millions contributor Garth Risk Hallberg:  "Here in America, I can think of several somewhat overlooked writers—Harold Brodkey, Kathryn Davis, Stanley Elkin, Charles Portis, my old teacher William H. Gass (whose fiction gets short shrift). But I think I’d like to focus on Jay Cantor, whose novels have been in and out of print. Cantor is a generation younger than Barth, Coover, et al., and consequently his innovative fiction is free from some of the programmatic excesses of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Krazy Kat manages to combine metafictional pyrotechnics with some serious, serious anger about the state of the world. I’m really excited to read Great Neck, his most recent, and most personal (I hear) novel."

More about Jay Cantor

+  Literature Map for Cantor
+  NYT review of Great Neck
+  Cantor on the Leonard Lapote show
+  BeyondChron review of The Death of Che Guevera