For more than a quarter of a century, Ronald Sukenick has been prominent among writers of innovative fiction in America. In addition to producing his own novels and collections of short stories, he has acted as theorist, publisher, and catalyst for new writing. His fiction is notable for its improvisatory energy and its focus on the processes of writing and reading, which take precedence over the conventional concerns of characterization and plot. Against the flow of those processes, he often counterpoints bold structural arrangements, which make his books visually striking and distinctive. Far from being innovative for the sake of innovation, Sukenick aims through his art to intensify and expand his readers' experience of their own lives. Underpinning his approach is the view stated in his 1974 essay "Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition," collected in In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction (1985): "the form of the...