Introduction: Vindictively American -- Novel subjects and objectionable authorship : Gina Apostol and Louise Erdrich -- Against "authenticity" : writing the self and the other : Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Safran Foer -- Material metafiction and the life-changing magic of all myriad things : Nicole Krauss and Ruth Ozeki -- "A blank page rises up" : willful authors in Percival Everett's Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado -- Epilogue: Releasing doubles into the world ...