Who Killed Jeanne Randolph? King, Muecke Or "Ficto-Criticism" (Stephen Muecke, Noel King and Ficto-Criticism) (Report‪)‬

In a 1995 interview a group of women writers from North America speak of the supportive and inspirational nature of their long standing collective that helped enable their experimentation with writing forms, in particular, critical or academic writing. As one of them states, she wanted to bring together her different selves that wrote under different pseudonyms in different genres; including fiction, journalism and academic criticism. In this interview with Jeffrey Williams titled "Writing in Concert," Cathy Davidson, Alice Kaplan, Jane Tompkins and Marianna Torgovnick ponder the relevance of identifying their experimental critical writing practice. They reflect on whether they could, at a point in the future, be considered to have been part of a salon. Torgovnick says, You're making me feel as if we need a name for what we're doing, because otherwise somebody else is going to give us a name. I think we've been resistant to giving it a name ... I don't have any problems with being in a circle. I think we probably do represent a movement and we are passing up a power-move in not naming it. It's a temptation that women have always succumbed to, not naming the movement, and then some man comes in and names [it] (Williams 67).