Richard Kostelanetz
- Preambles
- All Along the Edge
- Choice Bits
- Las Vegas Performance
- Book of Kostis
- Contemporary American Literacy
- Modern Polyartistry
- End of Intelligent Writing, reprint
- More On Innovative Music(ian)s
- Autobiogaphies at 50 & 60
- Book-Art & Alternative Publishing
- A Literary Life in America
- Animated Music
- Artists in America
- Arts & Artists in America
- Master Minds, rev. ed.
- The Maturity of American Thought
- Great American Comedians
- Continuing Tradition of the New
- Charles Ives and the American Imagination
- Special Sounds: The Art of Radio in North America
- Great Jewish Cemetery of Berlin
- Sports & Sportsmen
- Elizabeth Streb
- More Crimes of Culture
- The Fall and Rise of the Rockaways
- Home & Away: Tavel Essays
- American Composers in Their Own Words
- The Art of Literary Demolition
- Possibilities of Longer Poetry
- Alternative American Autobiographies
- The American Tradition in Poetry
- John Cage's Poetry
- Foster Damon's Uncollected Writings
- Libertarian Tradition: American Anarchist Thought
- E.E. Cummings ReConSidered
- Conceptual Dance: Choreographic Comedies
- An Emma Goldman Reader
- American Composers as Writers
- AnOther Ogden Nash
- Classic Essays on Rock
- New American Radio Plays
- Second Anthology of Merce Criticism
Proposal for Book Publication of 1001 Stories
1001 Stories is large collection in progress of single-sentence fictions, over a thousand in number at last count, that have no intentional connection to one another. These stories should appear in physically separate blocks of fairly large type, only a few to a page, ideally in a variety of typefaces (to reinforce the fundamental idea that these are distinctly separate stories), with plenty of separation between them (forcing the reader to acknowledge space as he or she moves from one to another). As the stories themselves are not intrinsically obscure or difficult, especially after their principle is understood, the book should attract fiction-lovers willing to read a series of surprises whose theme is the exhaustive experience of the experience of fiction. My own design recommendation would be that 1001 Stories be published in two editions--a 6" x 9" trade paperback and a 10 3/4" x 16 1/8" hardback, photographically enlarged 180 % (so that the individual stories would come to resemble newspaper headlines). Publishers should consider 1001 Stories an opportunity for innovative design and typesetting--for doing producing a fiction package different from the common run. If the publisher wishes, the author, also a noted book-artist, would be able to take charge of the design and deliver camera-ready copy. A book both written and designed by him was included in an annual exhibition of the American Institute of Graphic Artists. The potential appeal of this project to a wide audience seems obvious to me.