Academe Grove: Interviews 2017-2023

Academe Grove: Interviews 2017-2023Academe Grove: Interviews 2017 2023 gathers eleven interviews Yuriy Tarnawsky gave between 2017 and 2023. It is a book of talk, not fiction, and pairs with his Literary Diary 2020 2024: where the diary records his private method, the interviews are the public account of the same working years. Tarnawsky was an unusually articulate explainer of his own practice. Across these eleven conversations he returns to the idea that organized his late fiction,

The form is borrowed from the European high-modernist line Kramer has worked in throughout the cycle

It asks the reader to fill in missing pieces and complete strange "tests

a recently widowed retired psychoanalyst with degrees in English literature from the University of Chicago

Leventhal calls the form a fictmoir

MOFA: The Museum of Fungible Art is a collection of verbo-visual gems from Norman Conquest

Across four decades he published roughly nineteen books

The same figure returns in Broken Identities (2025)

and the fall rings against three earlier ones: his father's death seven years prior

He is the author of Assassination Rhapsody and the Doktor Bey satires

Conquest is a verbo-visual prankster and the founder of the international anti-censorship art collective Beuyscouts of Amerika

It uses incarceration as a metaphorical framework

together they form the dilogy that closes Tarnawsky's prose career