Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
Everything You Need to Know about Asian
Americans, 146
Evidence, 65, 127
Executioner, 149
Expensive People, 289
experimentalism, 119
Explanation of America, An, 302
Extra (Ordinary) People, 66
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
13
F
fable, 219
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,
47
Face of an Angel, 60
fairy tales, 236
Faith and Good Thing, 32
Faith Is a Radical Master, 148
“Falling: The Code,” 265
Falling Man, 13, 137, 198–199
Falsettos, 39
Faludi, Susan, 50, 62
Falwell, Jerry, 9
“Family and Adultery: Images and Ideas
in Updike’s Rabbit Novels,” 337
Fa Mu Lan, 249
fantasy, 51, 168–169
fanzines, 71
Farley, Faunia (character), 318
Farming of Bones, The, 61
Far North, 323
Farnsworth, Elizabeth, 192
Farthest Shore, The, 64
Father (character), 212
Father, The, 65, 126
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and
Songs, Race and Society, 35
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1,
8 & 9), 34, 47
Father Melancholy’s Daughter, 62
Faulkner, William, 130, 198, 232, 283,
289, 336
Fault Lines: A Memoir, 59, 124
Favorite Poem Project, 6, 118, 301
Fear of Flying, 51, 63
Feather Crowns, 64
Fefu and Her Friends, 37
Feinman, Joel, 19
Fellini, Federico, 199
Female Eunuch, The, 4
Female Man, The, 66
Feminine Mystique, The, 50, 62
feminism, 3–4, 9, 18, 37, 50–68, 169, 314,
343
Feminista, 64
Feminist Press, 4, 24, 50
Fences, 348
Ferdinand, Franz, 212
Ferraro, Geraldine, 9
Ferro, Robert, 14
fetal-alcohol syndrome, 225
Fever, 35
fiction
children’s, 17
crime, 75
detective, 27, 70
genre, 69–76
mystery, 27, 52
speculative, 69
young adult, 17
Fielding, Helen, 369
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, 7, 62
Fierstein, Harvey, 39, 44
Fifth Book of Peace, The, 141, 248
Fifth of July, 14, 36
Fifth Sunday, 220
Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, for
the Sake of the Land, 115, 127
Fighting Bob, 44
Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems,
1966–1996, The, 302
Final Solution: A Story of Detection, The,
69, 181
Finding a Form, 138
Finding the Green Stone, 343
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3,
308
Finishing School, The, 62
Finley, Karen, 40, 44
Finn, Huck (character), 243
Finn, William, 39, 45–46
Fire in the Lake, 141
Fires in the Mirror, 26, 35
Firestone, Shulamith, 4
Fire This Time, The, 26, 33
Firstborn, 237
First Cities, The, 33, 64, 126
First Figure, 127
Fish, Stanley, 19