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After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology

Some of the hottest writers of the 90's shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, avant-pop, that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, information-dense culture cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music to explore and critically examine that culture.

Each of these thirty-two works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and hyper-consumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity. This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twenty-first century."

Contents:

• Introduction: Avant-Pop: 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 Gómez-Peña

• From Tribulation 99: 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 & 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

• Tri-Stan: 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 the 1980s • short story by Bret Easton Ellis

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 384
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-024085-6
  • EAN
  • 9780140240856
  • Release date
  • 1995