Joseph McElroy writes dense, ambitious American fiction about technology, systems, memory and the difficulty of seeing how individual lives connect to larger structures. Women and Men moves through New York, science, family histories and overlapping networks of characters in a vast nonlinear novel whose scale is part of the reading experience. Lookout Cartridge begins with a filmmaker trying to understand the destruction of a film project and turns that investigation into a web of surveillance, information and uncertain motives. Plus imagines a disembodied brain placed in orbit, using science-fictional conditions to explore consciousness and identity. McElroy's prose is intricate, recursive and demanding, often asking readers to hold multiple strands before their relationship becomes clear. His work fits postmodern fiction, systems novels and experimental literary fiction, particularly for readers of Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis. Read more Less
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