This new collection of heretofore unpublished short stories and excerpts from works in progress by twenty-four authors brings together fiction of wide-ranging visions and styles. Like its predecessor Statements 1, the anthology serves as a showcase for some of the most innovative contemporary American fiction writers. New authors as well as voices familiar to readers of previous Fiction Collective books are represented: Walter Abish, Glenda Adams, Mimi Albert, Russell Banks, Jonathan Baumbach; Jerry Bumpus, Jerome Charyn, Robert Coover, Raymond Federman, B.H. Friedman, Thomas Glynn, Richard Grayson, Marianne Hauser, Steve Katz, Bruce Klienman, Elaine Kraf, Laura Kramer, Clarence Major, Ursule Molinaro, Leon Rooke, Steven Schrader, R.D. Skillings, Peter Spielberg, Ronald Sukenick.