Issue 22 - 1992

Coe Review • Issue 22
Contributor’s Notes
Scott Bradfield is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The
History of Luminous Motion, hailed by the Village Voice as
“an accomplished first novel about a brilliant and psychotic
child trapped in dubious battle with reality.... Bradfield
captures Phillip’s doomed battle against conformity with
compassion and dark wit.” Mr. Bradfield was born in
California in 1955. He taught for five years at the
University of California, Irvine, where he received his
doctorate in American literature, and presently teaches
English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Closer to
You was reprinted from his short story collection, The
Dream of the Wolf. Mr. Bradfield is presently at work on his
second novel.
Robert Coover is the author of six novels, The Origin of the Brunists,
The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh,
Prop., The Public Burning, Spanking the Maid, Gerald’s
Party, and his latest, Pinocchio in Venice. He is also the
author of numerous short fiction collections, including
Pricksongs and Descants, In Bed One Night and Other
Brief Encounters, A Night at the Movies; or You Must
Remember This, and Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus
of the Chicago Bears. The two fictions reprinted here,
“Man Walking at 24 Frames Per Second” and “The Titles
Sequence,” originally appeared in The Adventures of Lucky
Pierre. This is what Michael Malone had to say about
Gerald’s Party: “If Agatha Christie on hallucinogens
dreamed a murder mystery comedy, and if Freud and the
Marx Brothers brought it to the burlesque stage, with
additional dialogue by Beckett, sets by Dali, casting by
Berger and Pynchon, and program notes by Sartre, the
result might be close to Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party.”
Born in Charles City, Iowa, and educated at Indiana
University and the University of Chicago, Mr. Coover has
been the recipient of the Faulkner award, the Brandeis
University Creative Arts award, a Rockefeller fellowship,
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