Focus: Avant-Pop II — October/November 1996

Avant-Pop II

Volume 18 Number 1
October-November 1996

Focus: Avant-Pop II

Avant-pop 101
Larry McCaffery

Hypertextual Consciousness, Virtual Reality, and the Avant-Pop
Mark Amerika

Avant-Pop Edelika: The Tie-Dyed Musical Legacy of the Good Ol’ Grateful Dead: Part Two
Victor Bradley

Howard, King of All Media: Part Two
Jim Rother reviews Howard Stern: Miss America by Howard Stern

That’s Blaxploitation!

Rob Hardin reviews That’s Blaxploitation! Roots of the Baadassss ‘Tude by Darius James

“Ostranenye goes gevortsing,” or “The Dethompsoning of quiddity”: An Eyewitness Report
Marc Chènetier reviews The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus

The Monster in the Mirror
Veronica Hollinger reviews Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach

Music

Death and the Metal Maiden
Ronald Bogue

Feature: Life Studies

Myth Montez
Charles Marowitz reviews Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour

Kosinski: The Final Chapter
Cezar M. Ornatowski and Jerzy Durczak review Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography by James Park Sloan

Cartoon Auteur
Joseph Dunlap reviews Marylin: Story of a Woman by Kathryn Hyatt

How the Irish Fairies Saved Western Civilization
Daniel Leary reviews Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman by Sally Peters

Book Reviews

The Mina Loy Mysteries: Legend and Language
Marjorie Perloff reviews Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy Edited by Roger L. Conover, and The Hotel in the Jungle by Albert J. Guerard

The Right Stuff
Philip Green reviews The Essential Neoconservative Reader Edited by Mark Gerson

Words Soaking Up Views
Robin Magowan reviews This Meadow of Time: A Provence Journal by Fredrick Smock

Louie’s Life Force
Lauren Sanders reviews The Photographer’s Sweethearts by Diana Hartog

Crisscrossing Genders
Michael du Plesis reviews Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, & Visions Edited by.Naomi Tucker with Liz Highleyman and Rebecca Kaplan

Nouveau Politique
Ben Stolzfus reviews New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France by Lynn A. Higgins

Ozymandias and Harriet, or The Decline and Fall of the American Family
David Kirby reviews Before and After by Charlie Smith

Madonna’s Foremother
Kelly Mayhew reviews Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon by Ramona Curry

Stop, Look and Reread
Corinne Robins reviews Poe’s Mother: Selected Drawings of Djuna Barnes Edited with an introduction by Douglas Messerli

Half a Loaf
Mimi Albert reviews The Sixties Edited by Peter Stine

Porn Power
Laura Wadenpful reviews XXX: A woman’s Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy

Hunger and Mystery
MT Kinney reviews The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer

The Functional Forum
Doug Nufer reviews Doña Juana by Mok Hossfeld

The Eyes Have It
Sidney Freshbach reviews Joyce’s Iritis and the Irritated Text: The Dis-Lexic Ulysses by Roy Gottfried

Between the Ache and the Lack
Adrienne McCormick reviews Night Drawings by Marjorie Stelmach

Making the Irrational Inevitable
W.B. Keckler reviews Symmetry by Laura Moriarty and Cold Pluto by Mari Ruefle

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