BERNE, Stanley

Berne and Zekowski are tied together not only because they have been married for nearly fifty years but also because they customarily publish their books in tandem and reflect a common esthetic, which begins with the conviction that the conventional sentence is esthetically outmoded. Usually classified as fiction, their books are typically difficult, in the tradition of Gertrude Stein at her most opaque. They are innovative stylists remembered not for their content but for their original...