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Postmodern writers celebrate fabulation and play, baroque excess, a metafictive self-consciousness, a darkly mordant wit, and an insistence that human reality is constructed.
The Sixties generation of writers gave us something simultaneously new and traditional, preserving and extending the anarchistic strain in what ABR founder Ron Sukenick called The Rival Tradition.
Machines with the ability to process natural language are taking on writing assignments that once would have been given to a human.
Letters, perhaps especially the letters of a celebrated author, promise to reveal the subjectivity of their writer in a way that no other form does.
If sex writing is a controversial issue, it is undoubtedly a different one for women writers than for men.
Creative criticism consciously critiques through narratives that provide sociohistorical context and analyze the political, economic, and social issues inherent in that time and place.
Even postmodernism's heyday was a glamorous afterlife, out of sync with itself and practiced as a form of subversive intertextuality. What then is post-postmodernism?
The desire to read and write, be it with charcoal or an iPhone, share in the same desire to understand and be understood, to communicate in and across time.
We are living through an era of zombie capitalism, and it is no accident that an apocalyptic necro-realism is the dominant mode of representation of our times.
"Where and to whom do I belong?" are questions that haunt immigrant and ethnic writing.
The post- and ex-anthropic seem to be merging, not just in literature, but in philosophy and theory, where once again materialisms and realisms of various forms are ascendant.
Some lit-based web presences exist to unite broad groups around the idea of reading and writing. Many function as hotbeds for literary debate.
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