Adams, Michael J. "Jayne Anne Phillips," in Postmodern

Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood, 1986, pp. 481-83.

Useful reference guide.

Hill, Dorothy Combs. "Interview with Jayne Anne Phil-lips," in South Carolina Review, Fall, 1991, pp. 53-73.

Phillips discusses her life and career.

Lassner, Phyllis. "Women's Narration and the Recreation of History," in American Women Writing Fiction, edited by Mickey Perlman, University Press of Kentucky, 1989, pp. 193-206.

An exploration of the different narrative voices in Machine Dreams considered individually and as contributing to the overall effect of the novel.

Price, Joanna. "Remembering Vietnam: Subjectivity and Mourning in American New Realist Writing," in Journal of American Studies, August, 1993, pp. 173-86.

Besides touching on the question of "new realism," Price explores Phillips's treatment of character and the Vietnam war in the novel Machine Dreams.