Biobibliography
Gail Scott co-edited the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative, with Robert Gl�ck, Mary Burger, Camille Roy [Coach House: 2004], short-listed for a Lambda Award. Her novel My Paris, about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in contemporary Paris, appeared at Dalkey Archive [Normal, Ill] in September, 2003. Her story collection Spare Parts Plus Two [2002] was called �superb� and �enthralling� by the Montr�al Review of Books. Her other novels are Main Brides and Heroine, (now in 7th printing) and her essays are collected in Spaces Like Stairs and La th�orie, un dimanche (with Nicole Brossard et al). Her translation of Michael Delisle�s Le D�asarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General�s award in translation [2001]. She is co-editor of Narrativity, a web magazine out of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and was co-founder of both Tessera, a bilingual periodical of new writing by women, and Spirale, a French-language critical magazine based in Montr�al.
Cross-Genre Writing
What haunts ... in the act of writing ... are not the dead (memory, the past), but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others. The effect of the haunting, spoken + unspoken, i.e., of what we come to know through the reconnoitering of language, works like that of a ventriloquist, bespeaking the stranger within one's own writing-subject topography, a stranger whose presence eventually becomes performed along the lines of staged words. To stage words is to speak in many tongues, or (to put it another way): The play between contiguity and disjunction encouraged by the effects of the phantom or stranger helps objectify the process of writing, raising the possibility of dialoguing with both the uncanny (dream, fantasy, the dark spaces of genre fiction [Delaney�s Dahlgren, for instance]), and the social: a rhetorical edge is added to poetic thinking. My dream of prose swings many ways: toward theory and toward sound to name two. And I wonder all the time: how to write prose that has the thinking space of poetry.
