Focus: Avant-Pop — August/September 1996

Avant-Pop

Volume 17 Number 6
August-September 1996

FOCUS: AVANT-POP

RECONFIGURING THE LOGIC OF HYPERCONSUMER CAPITALISM
Larry McCaffery.

WAITING FOR GODZILLA
Takayuki Tatsumi.

AVANT-POP EDELICA: THE TIE-DYED MUSCIAL LEGACY OF THE GOOD OL’ GRATEFUL DEAD
Victor Bradley.

HOWARD, KING OF ALL MEDIA: PART ONE
Jim Rother reviews Howard Stern: Miss America by Howard Stern.

PLA(Y)GIARISMS
Doug Rice reviews X-Texts, and The Marquis de Sade’s Elements of Style by Derek Pell; and Critifiction: Postmodern Essays by Raymond Federman.

METZGER’S CURRENT
Derek Owens reviews Blood and Volts: Edison, Tesla, and the Electric Chair by Th. Metzger.

MURDER A LA MODE
Daniella Mays-Anderson reviews Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed with Depraved Sex and Violence, and Crack Hotel by Michael Hemmingson.

FROM PO-MO TO A-P
Thomas Irmer reviews In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop edited by Mark Amerika and Lance Olsen.

CYBERMOOR
Jim Miller reviews Othello Blues by Harold Jaffe.

FEATURE: REVOLUTION ON-LINE

INDIVIDUALS, INC.
Linda Brigham reviews Incorporations edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Swinter.

DESIGNING ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN A POSTMODERN AGE
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum reviews Designing Information in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor by Richard Coyne.

THIS REVOLUTION MAY NOT BE COMPUTERIZED
Daniel Riess reviews Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier.

FEATURE: GOD-TALK

THEOPOETRY
Ruby Riemer reviews Old & New Testaments by Lynn Powell.

FEELING FOR THE CORPSE
Sabine Raffy reviews Hélène and Paulina 1880 by Pierre Jean Jouve.

FEATURE: AMERICAN FICTION SINCE 1960

INCLUSIVE DISCRIMINATION
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960 by Marc Chénetier.

NOVELISTS AND/OR THE AMERICAN NOVEL
Ursula K. Heise reviews Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel Since the 1960s edited by Melvin J Friedman and Ben Siegel.

BOOK REVIEWS

FULLY HALF-WAY THERE
A. Robert Lee reviews No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Heart’s Desire by Nahid Rachlin; The Room In-Between by Ana Maria Delgado; and Too Late For Man by William Ospina.

FIRESTORMS
Frederick Smock reviews The Parable of Fire by James Reiss.

LET’S TALK ABOUT RACE
Jennifer Gillan reviews Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race edited by Jim Daniels.

REVELATIONS
Don Webb reviews The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories by Ilan Stavans.

MEDIA CONSTRAINTS
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Format and Anxiety by Paul Goodman.

SUBLIME EMBARRASSMENT
Curtis White reviews Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson.

THE HEART’S REASONS
Patrick Pritchett reviews Quick, Now, Always by Mark Irwin.

FIFTY-SEVEN CHANNELS AND THERE’S NOTHING ON
Carlton Smith and Deborah Paes de Barros review Channel Zero by Michael Krekorian.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Phillip Mahony reviews The Homesick Patrol by David Vancil.

LIT DE JURE
Steven Richman reviews Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives by Ian Ward.

MOTHERS AND SONS
Linda Wagner-Martin reviews The Woman without Experiences by Patricia Dienstfrey.

MINIMALISM TO THE MAX
Phil Leggiere reviews Star Fiction by Erik Belgum.

THE EXAMINED LIFE
Steven Boyd Saum reviews Mount Soledad by Harry Polkinhorn.

BEARING WITNESS
John Jacob reviews The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu.

AN ALIGNMENT OP PRAGMENTS
Gordon E. Thompson reviews Honorable Amendments by Michael S. Harper.

SLOWING UP WITH THE QUICKEN TREE
Lynne Lawner reviews The Quicken Tree by Bill Knott.

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