Of his novel Cigarettes (1987), Edmund White wrote: "This book is remarkable, as involving as a 19th-century saga and as original as any modernist invention-a rare combination of readability and ingenuity." In their spring issue, the Paris Review will include an excerpt from the novel he finished shortly before his death. With James Schuyler and John Ashbery, he started the journal Locus Solus. A long-time contributor to the Paris Review, Mathews was also the only American member of Oulipo, the French literary society “whose stated purpose is to devise mathematical structures that can be used to create literature.” During his nearly sixty-year career, Mathews published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Author Harry Mathews died yesterday in Key West, Florida, at the age of 86.
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