Qualities of Actual Things, Blue Pastoral, and Mulligan Stew. The latter novel, a humorous postmodern romp, riffs on the metafictional possibilities introduced in Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds, and is one of Sorrentino's most popular works. His 1999 novel, Gold Fools, is written entirely in interrogative sentences not, as critic Steven Moore says, "just to see if he could pull it off, but because he wanted to interrogate our cultural assumptions about the Old West." In 2010 a posthumous novel, The Abyss of Human Illusion, was published by Coffee House Press with a preface by Christopher Sorrentino. Honors and awards Sorrentino was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Guggenheim Fellowships in Fiction in 1973 and 1987, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (1981), PEN/Faulkner Award finalist in 1981 and 2003, the Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (declined, 1982), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature (1985), the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1992), and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. In 2020, Community Board 10 and the New York City Parks Department named a section of Leif Erickson Park, in Bay Ridge, after Sorrentino. Bibliography Fiction The Sky Changes (1966) Steelwork (1970) Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (1971) Splendide-Hôtel (1973) Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo (1974) Mulligan Stew (1979) Aberration of Starlight (1980) Crystal Vision (1981) Blue Pastoral (1983) Odd Number (1985) Rose Theatre (1987) Misterioso (1989) Under the Shadow (1991) Red the Fiend (1995) Gold Fools (1999) Little Casino (2002) The Moon in its Flight (short fiction, 2004) Lunar Follies (2005) A Strange Commonplace (2006) The Abyss of Human Illusion (2010) Novella A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles (1986) Poetry The Darkness Surrounds Us (1960) Black and White (1964) The Perfect Fiction (1968) Corrosive Sublimate (1971) A Dozen Oranges (1976) White Sail (1977) Sulpiciae Elegidia: Elegiacs of Sulpicia (1977) (Translator) The Orangery (1978) Selected Poems 1958–1980 (1981) New and Selected Poems 1958–1998 (2004) Criticism Something Said (1984; expanded second edition 2001) References Further reading Mackey, Louis. Fact, Fiction, and Representation: Four Novels by Gilbert Sorrentino. Camden House, 1997. McPheron, William. Gilbert Sorrentino: A Descriptive Bibliography. Dalkey Archive Press, 1991. Review of Contemporary Fiction [special issues on Sorrentino]: vol. 1.1 (1981); vol. 21.3 (2001); vol. 23.1 (2003); vol. 31.1-2 (2011). External links A Conversation with Gilbert Sorrentino A biographical and critical essay by