Thalia Field

Thalia Field (born 1966) is an American writer and editor known for innovative fiction and interdisciplinary collaborations. She teaches experimental fiction and performance at Brown University. Her most recent book, Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction), published by Solid Objects (NY) is a collage-based and genre-blending novel that explores the origins of both experimental literature and modern experimental bio-medicine. Based on the marriage of Claude and Fanny Bernard, the novel also features women activists who have been overlooked in science history.

Field has also published three books of experimental writing and prose poetry with New Directions Publishing, most recently Bird Lovers, Backyard in 2010. She has published a lyric essay, A Prank of Georges, with Essay Press, and with the same collaborator, Abigail Lang, has a book-in-progress, Leave to Remain.

A "performance novel", ULULU (Clown Shrapnel), published by Coffee House Press, tells the ficto-critical biography of the character "Lulu" in innovative and musical prose, calling to mind Joyce's Finnigan's Wake.

External links

• A mini-interview with Thalia Field at The Believer
• An experimental theater piece by Field, "Experimental Theater Is history! (The Photo and Infinite Play)"
• Hermeneutics beyond the Species Boundary Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives, by David Herman
• The Question of Evolution in the Buddhist Ecology of Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard, by Gillian Parrish Washington University, St. Louis
• Backward/Forward, Thalia Field's Metanarratives, by Jan Baetens, Éric Trudel
• Use Everything: An Interview with Thalia Field, by Jorge Armenteros