filtered for maximum annoyance, this is a hyperdated collection of nonsense from a misguided aesthetic from fin de grunge, Most of the stories are as coherent and engaging as a Mad Lib, Out ofstories, two didn't actively repel me, so it wasn't hopeless, But that's a.NONREPELLENT rate. Ye gods. Finito nel/gen/::I didn't read all of the stories, but many for my class, I liked the Erickson story the best, Finiti A good overview of experimental writing, Unfortunely I lost this book years ago, And by lost it I mean I loaned it to an unreliable ex who absconded with it when he headed home to Seattle, But I digress. This book is a wonderful collection of weird, wonderful, silly and slightly horrific short fiction, Not all the stories are excellent, a few are awful, but overall this is a collection that showcases a certain type of literature that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
Some of the hottest writers of the's shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, avantpop, that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, informationdense culture cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music to explore and critically examine that culture.
Each of these thirtytwo works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and hyperconsumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity.
This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twentyfirst century, "
Contents:
Introduction: AvantPop: Still Life After Yesterday's Crash essay by Larry McCaffery
Current Events short story by Steve Katz
The Exorcist short story by Rikki Ducornet
Incarnations of the Murderer short story by William T.
Vollmann
Moonlight Whoopie Cushion Sonata short story by Tom Robbins
From Border Brujo short story by Guillermo GómezPeña
From Tribulation: Alien Anomalies Under America short story by Craig Baldwin
Oh, Brother short story by Mark Leyner
From Arc d'X short story by Steve Erickson
The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed Into Heaven short story by Don DeLillo
Light short story by Stephen Wright
Weird Romance short story by Derek Pell
X Y short story by Susan Daitch
A Lucky Pierre World Premiere short story by Robert Coover
Victims of Mass Imagination short story by Lauren Fairbanks
Skinner's Room short
story by William Gibson
Counter Couture short story by Harold Jaffe
EHMH: A Millennial Romance short story by Eurudice
Great Breakthroughs in Darkness Being, Early Entries from 'The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography' short story by Marc Laidlaw
Straight Hincty short story by Ricardo Cortez Cruz
Hostile Takeover short story by Craig Padawer
Notes Scribbled in the Dark While Watching Schindler's List, or What Price Schindler's Pots amp Pans short story by Raymond Federman
Hand Writing on Wall short story by Ronald Sukenick
Stone Columbus: Talk Radio from the Santa Maria Casino short story by Gerald Vizenor
TriStan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko short story by David Foster Wallace
False Water Society short story by Ben Marcus
Granmmatron short story by Mark Amerika
Bad News short story by Lynne Tillman
Ella's Special Camera: From Waxweb short story by David Blair
Bonanza short story by Curtis White
Blackouts short story by Paul Auster
Heavy Weather short story by Bruce Sterling
End of thes short story by Bret Easton Ellis.
Catch Hold Of After Yesterdays Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology Authored By Larry McCaffery Provided As Volume
Larry McCaffery