Richard Kostelanetz's "Breakthrough Fictioneers" (1973)

West Glover, Vermont, US: Something Else Press (book, anthology), 1973.
9.5" x 6.5" x 1.125", 360 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-87110-087-8.

Breakthrough Fictioneers edited by Richard Kostelanetz and published in hardcover [pictured] and softcover editions by Something Else Press (West Glover, Vermont, US) in 1973. An anthology of creative and creatively-formed fiction works.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Word Authority More Habit Forming than Heroin". pp. 198-202. This previously appeared in the first issue of The San Francisco Earthquake, Fall 1967.

Maynard & Miles B72.
Shoaf II.97.

Contents:

• Richard Kostelanetz: introduction
• Credits and Acknowledgments
• bill bissett: "untitled (from lost angel mining company)
• Sarah Plimpton: "(Unititled)"
• Gerhard Rühm: "Fabels"
• Richard Shaw: "Big Poet Detects a Beam in Little Poet's Private Eye"
• David Uu: "how we say love nd turn tv off"
• Norman Ogue Mustill: "from Score for 12.46"
• Marvin Cohen: "Forgetting: The Lost Art"
• Donald Burgy: "Art Idea for the Year 4000 #1"
• Giles Gordon: "GENEALOGY"
• Dieter Rot: "Hansel und Gretel"
• Jeff Berner: "autoparts"
• Stanley Berne: "The Units That Make Up This Moment"
• George Chambers: "Untitled"
• Alan Sondheim: "*TraditCollege* Coarse Catalog"
• Gertrude Stein; "Lucretia Borgia: A Play"
• Dick Higgins: "Forty Seven Imaginary People and Landscapes"
• Marvin Cohen: "TIME'S JOURNEY THROUGH IMMORTALITY..."
• Kenneth Burke: "Scherzando"
• Jean-François Bory: "Post-Scriptum"
• Robert Chatain: "RUDOLF HESS, 1969"
• Carol Emschwiller: "Eohippus"
• Marvin Cohen: "Delplessly One"
• Alastair MacLennan: "from To Stand"
• George Chambers: "Once (after Kaveh Khatir)"
• Eleanor Antin: "An episode from 100 BOOTS: An Epistolary Novel"
• Henry James Korn: "Four Dreams Dreamed by the Girl Who Ate Three Desserts"
• Stefan Themerson: "A Stranger"
• Richard Meltzer: "Labor Unit Settles a Housing Question"
• Richard Meltzer: "Hearse Is Premature"
• Richard Meltzer: "Ship of Tubs"
• John Mella: "Wash"
• Liam O'Gallagher: "Detective More"
• Tom Ockerse: "from T.O.P."
• Edwin Morgan: "FROM THE ARCHIVES OF F.L.U.F.F. (Federation of Lovers of Undiscovered Forces and Frontiers)"
• Arlene Zekowski: "from Seasons of the Mind"
• Charles Platt: "Norman vs. America"
• Jiri Valoch: "Dialogue"
• Robert Smithson: "Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan"
• Irene Schram: "Color: Stage Directions for a Three Act Play in Three Verses (Pantomime)"
• Hans G. Helms: "from Fa:m' Ahniesgwow"
• Irene Schram: "Machine Family: Stage Directions for a Three-Act Play in Three Verses (Pantomime, with Sound)"
• John Furnival: "Statement"
• Paul Haines: "IN ISTANBUL"
• Robert Lax: "Problem in Design"
• Vito Acconci: "Rubbing Piece"
• Alain Arias-Misson: "A Public Poem"
• Manfred Mohr: "from Computer Graphics"
• David Uu: "(Untitled)"
• Mirojlub Todorovic: "Lunometer (1969-70)"
• William T. Wiley: "Dead Give Away"
• Kenneth Gangemi: "Change"
• Dan Graham: "Two Correlated Rotations (1969): 2 Super-8-mm film projections on loops"
• Wally Depew: "On-no"
• Russell Edson: "The Dead"
• J. G. Ballard: "Princess Margaret's Face Lift: an intersection of fiction and reality"
• José Luis Castillejo: "Don Federico"
• Davi Det Hompson: "(Untitled)"
• Timm Ulrichs: "wetterkarte"
• James Salis: "The Very Last Days of Boston – from Field"
• Dieter Rot: "from Daily Mirror"
• Tom Veitch: "100 Words"
• Silviano Santiago: "Labor Dei"
• Kenneth Gangemi: "First Miscellany"
• M. D. Elevitch: "Halfway Round the Nodule"
• Hugh Fox: "NOT CURIOUS BUT WANTING IN"
• Howard Fried: "Studio Relocation 2/5/70"
• M. Vaughn-James: "Scythes in the Night"
• Michael Butterworth: "The Terminal"
• Donald Burgy: "Art Idea for the Year 4000 #2"
• William S. Burroughs: "Word Authority More Habit Forming than Heroin"
• Ray Smith: "Passion"
• E. Lagomarsino: "Conjectures on a Famous Process"
• Eugene Wildman: "Plosion"
• Marvin Cohen: "INSIDE THE HEAD THAT'S INSIDE THE HEAD..."
• Moacy Cirne and Alvaro de Sa: "Process Poems"
• Marvin Cohen: "BORING AND MONOTONOUS PASSAGES..."
• Wally Depew: "Plomp-Money"
• Jean-Jacques Cory: "Testimonial"
• Ken Friedman: "Personal Space"
• hans clavin: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ?"
• Shoichi Kiyokawa: "G-String"
• Barry McCallion: "from Art Maximus"
• Richard Foreman: "from Evidence"
• Lee DeJasu: "Jurative Game Antecedent"
• Lee DeJasu: "*Jack"
• Anro Karlen: "Mirrors"
• Ruth Krauss: "Drunk Boat"
• Tom Veitch: "(Untitled)"
• Timm Ulrichs: "(Untitled)"
• Jackson Mac Low: "A Greater Sorrow: an expanded story for Ray Johnson and Malka Safro"
• José Luis Castillejo: "negations and contradictions can function as active forms"
• Bill Knott: "No-Act Play"
• J. Marks: "Transition: Notes from a Sixteen Year Old"
• Tom Veitch: "Clipping"
• Raymond Federman: "DASHING FROM DON TO TIOLI"
• Jochen Gerz: "Alternatives to Memory"
• Tom Phillips: "from A Humument"
• John Mella: "Duplicate Piano Players"
• Anthony J. Gnazzo: "Prime Source"
• Armand Schwerner: "from The Tablets"
• Etheridge Knight: "The Idea of Ancestry"
• Raymond Federman: "Weather Report"
• Paul De Vree: "Contestical Mill"
• Richard Kostelanetz: "Development"
• Norman Ogue Mustill: "Thermé 1"
• Norman Ogue Mustill: "Thermé 2"
• Jochen Gerz: "Occupied Space: Presence Participle"
• Paul Haines: "TO NULLIFY BLOW BY LOWERING HEAD"
• Pierre and Ilse Garnier: "from Prototypes"
• John Baldessari: "Police Portraits"
• Dick Higgins: "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"
• CPGRAHAM: "King Con, Con King"
• Clark Coolidge: "SEND TRACKS BENT TAPES"
• Lars Görling: "Opus Dei"
• Kenneth Gangemi: "The Newspaper"
• Richard Kostelanetz: "Parallel Intervalic Sets"
• Charles Levendosky: "Penumbra Triptych"
• John Barth: "HELP: a stereophonic narrative for authorial voice"
• Ruth Krauss: "Weather"