Product Description

Customer Reviews (2)

F. Scott/Oulipo/Poetry/Magnets
McSweeney's 22 is one of the coolest issues to hold in your hands, as it's three paperbacks with magnetic strips in their spines attached to a hardcover case with a magnetic strip in its spine.

The first book is called a collection of "unfinished" F. Scott Fitzgerald stories. This is misleading--these aren't stories Scott actually started, but just half-ideas and possibilities, some of them a couple words long. Seventeen different writers take these fragments and scraps and write new short shorts about them. Surprisingly, the greater majority of them work.

The second book is a sampling of work from French experimental writing cabal Oulipo. This is possibly the most hit-and-miss collection of stories ever gathered: when they work, they're charming and innovative; when they don't, they're wearying and unbearably self-indulgent. Regardless, it's enjoyable to see such uniqueness and creativity even when the results are difficult. It showcases one of the things McSweeney's does best, which is bring worthwhile super-obscurity to some deserved attention.

The third book is all poetry, called "Poets Picking Poets" (this was later published as a standalone book), where they asked poets to pick poems they like and so on. I've been told by a reliable poet friend that it's pretty good, so I'll vouch for that.

Issue 22 is a bit riskier issue than some, and certainly focuses heavily on the esoteric, but it rewards well by finding some of the best work from some of the least known.

Magnetic
McSweeney's 22 presentation is a hardcover case with a magnetic strip on the inside spine with 3 paperbacks each with magnetic strips on their spine attached. Books held together with magnets, those guys...

The first book takes the ideas F Scott Fitzgerald had for potential stories and has a different writer realise each one. Some are just a few words "Girl and Giraffe" and others more detailed but it's a great idea done so well. Miriam Toews' "The Misstep" is a small play based on an office worker who organised an after hours orgy in the office, "Finally" by Judy Budnitz tells the story of a despot who gets his comeuppance, "The Flying Machine" by Marc Bojanowski is about a gravedigger asked to do a strange favour, Tom Lombardi's "The Bear" features a talking bear, and Rachel Ingalls' "A Gift of the Gods" is about a dancing princess who is given wings by a goddess. These stories are superb and are worth getting the book for alone. Even the lesser stories are well written.

The second book features experimental work from "Oulipo" (no I hadn't heard of them either) and the stories are more stylistic than substantial.

The third and final book is a collection of 50 poets and poems. It's the biggest of the 3 books with about 200 pages.

Despite being a literature student and a big fan of McSweeney's, I'm not as inclined to like either experimental literature or poetry, both rare things to find in any issue. Maybe the poetry's good, I don't know as I don't read it often enough to judge. As for the experimental stories...

It's an interesting issue from McSweeney's as always, with a number of hidden gems with innovative design work. Good stuff. ... Read more

Product Description
The seventh edition of this American literary quarterly includes stories by nine authors: Kevin Brockmeier, Michael Chabon, Ann Cummins, Courtney Eldridge, A.M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, JT Leroy, Allan Seager, William T. Vollmann, and Chris Ware. Each story is published separately in booklet form, held together by a blue and grey hardboard clamshell. McSweeney's features some of the most innovative writing on the American literary scene today. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Just bought it for the Kavalier and Clay story
Sorry to be blunt but that was it. The story, in which Joe goes to Tommy's school and performs for the class was funny and light, even if it did read like a chapter cut from the rest of the book. As for the other stories I didn't even read them and can't tell you who they are (except for infamous JT Leroy who has a story here.) ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (3)

The Old Becomes the New
McSweeney's 31 is about bringing back old forms of storytelling by getting contemporary writers to craft stories in that form once more. And it's a success!

The best story was Douglas Coupland's "Survivor" written in the Biji style, a sort of rambling tangential tale, about a cameraman filming the reality show "Survivor" only to find the world outside of the remote island has erupted into full scale nuclear war. Suddenly the remaining humans left on the island have to survive for real. Coupland's narrator is instantly likeable, both jaded and glad of the small things in life, and utterly funny, it's almost worth getting the book for this story alone.

David Thomson's story "After Citizen Kane" written as a Socratic dialogue is a joy to read. He puts Kafka, Hemingway, Woolf, Sontag, and Chaplin into debating the merits of "Citizen Kane" and whether it deserves to constantly win polls that make it the best film of all time. It's clever, witty, and thoroughly enjoyable, it's another great story in this book.

Mary Miller's story is written in the style of the "whore dialogue" with a virgin and an experienced woman talking about sex. It's a medieval approach with 21st century sensibilities and is great fun.

Will Sheff's "Black Metal Circle Saga" is written in the style of the "legendary saga" and reads like it should, vast and epic with vikings killing one another in gruesome ways. Good stuff.

Despite a couple of misfires I won't go into, it's a very strong issue from the guys at McSweeney's. Brilliantly inventive stories presented in a well produced hardback with excellent page design and layouts, if you're thinking about whether it's worth reading or not, it definitely is.

A great idea, with some good pieces
McSweeney's 31 started off with a great idea: reviving feeble or deceased literary forms. The forms chosen are quite different, from poetry (pantoums) to prose (nivolas, Icelandic sagas). I thought the revivals worked best when they were set in contemporary settings, exploiting the form in light of present concerns. Some forms proved tough to revive. Some were funny and clever. My favorites: Mary Miller's whore dialogue, Douglas Coupland's biji, and John Brandon's Graustarkian romance.

"A Paean to the Weird, Beautiful, Missing Links of Literature"
Issue 31 is devoted to lost forms of literature, those forms and genres that have been almost or totally forgotten. The issue was conceived over a year's time; McSweeney's interns solicited authors with lost genre forms, which the authors made new instances of. Almost all of the new pieces are very strong.

For example, many authors try their hands at the poetic forms of the pantoum and senryu, with terrific results. Mary Miller writes a whore dialogue, which was a 17th-century French form wherein a whore and a virgin discussed sex to the erudition of the latter. John Brandon does an intriguing take on the Graustarkian romance, or an adventure tale to a mystical, made-up land. David Thomson writes a Socratic dialogue featuring Woolf, Kafka, Hemingway, and Chaplin discussing whether Citizen Kane is really the best film of all time. It's better than that sounds and better than the tendency towards referenciality its plot may imply, and gets points for being as viably highfalutin as a Socratic philosophy session.

Okkervil River lead singer and lyricist Will Sheff writes a legendary saga, popular in premedieval Scandinavia, about generations of warring black metal bands. Best of all is Douglas Coupland's biji, which is a genre manifested today in Lonely Planets, sort of--a personal travelogue with many lessons and fragments of information. The genre seems ideal to his fragmentary, hodgepodge, multimedia style, and he writes with clear delight about a petulant British cameraman filming the TV show Survivor on the Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati.

And while it's nice to see authors having fun, Shelley Jackson's consuetudinary (or the pedantic minutes of a monastery--not really a genre worth exhuming) is almost too loyal to its form. Which is to say that while it's very impressive as a creative work, it's also almost unreadable. The dud here is Joy Williams' nivola (plotless, aimless, "existential" story), which exists mostly to reference the source material, every bit of content winking at its footnotes.

But for the most part this is a great and exciting project done very well, and one of the strongest issues yet. McSweeney's is as usual doing something no one else is doing, and they're doing it extremely well. Always exciting to get a new issue. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (5)

Neat lay-out. Barthleme work is interesting. Actual 'stories' are alright.
A couple of the stories (the purported reason for purchasing a McSweeney's) are kind of uninteresting. Several shine, notably one about an aged Phantom traversing a sullen landscape with a strange boy in tow, a Stockholm Syndrome ode that hits all the right notes and a particularly self-righteous tale of viligante justice and unrequited love that reminded me, lovingly, of Updike's famed A&P, albeit gorier.
Worth $20? Probably not. This is the only mcSweeney's I've ever read, but I only hope, given the praise, the other islands of savage literary-scheming are better destinations than this. Barthleme deservers better.

Barthelme & Trouble
Apparently I can't review both issue 12 and 24 separately so here's the review for both.

Issue 12 features 12 new short stories from 12 new ("undiscovered") authors, as well as 20-minute stories from many authors, and a novella by Roddy Doyle.

The new stories are mostly very good, starting with a stunning story of a train robbery by Shann Ray. Rachel Sherman writes a perceptive and cutting hot-for-teacher story, while Andy Lamey does a hilarious take on living as Samuel Beckett, and how morbid existentialism translates to an actual career. Wythe Marschall writes a very fun surreal piece on different Frances (Cold France, Dark France, Slow France, Sponge France), and Ben Ehrenreich writes a stunning story about two dystopian lovers who come together by taking care of an abandoned squid. That story alone is worth the price of admission.

Salvador Plascencia writes a deftly absurd border-crossing story, and James Boice has a great story of consequences coming one after the other like a Rube Goldberg machine. John Henry Fleming's short short about a general is just fine.

There are a few lesser stories: Steve Steifel writes a sass-laden story about nothing, overwrought with tragedy as if tragedy is a plot. Andrea Deszo's is a 100% generic fish-out-of-water new-foreigner-in-America story, Sarah Raymont collects some musings, and Chad Simpson writes a certified underwhelmer. What's really unfortunate is Roddy Doyle's crummy novella--Doyle can be a terrific storyteller, but falls flat (read: inconsequential) here. The novella's an Irish colloquial snoozefest tracing the rise of a standard band and its page-consuming all-caps lyrics.

Shame the space of the novella wasn't used for more 20-minute stories, because the 20-minute stories redeem the collection, with especially great pieces from David Ebershoff, Rick Moody, Douglas Coupland, Marc Nesbitt, Ryan Boudinot, and Aimee Bender. These are fun short shorts that apparently were written in only 20 minutes, and the wealth of objective quality given those conditions is really impressive.

So, overall, this collection is a little soggy with deadweight, but far more good than bad, and the new discoveries are certainly well worth discovering.

---
#24 is a neat issue, with a cool wraparound double-binding, one side a tribute to late surreal writer Donald Barthelme, the other including six stories all focused on the theme of trouble.

The Barthelme section features many authors remembering Barthelme, including Robert Coover, George Saunders, Padgett Powell, Lawrence Weschler, and others, as well as two uncollected stories by Don. It's a good introduction and eulogy to a wonderful writer.

The stories are mostly very good, the centerpiece of which is Joe Meno's fantastic story of Stockholm Syndrome--the actual 1973 event that gave rise to the phrase. Jonathan Ames has a fun detective story about a bored author becoming an unlicensed private eye and finding instantaneous trouble; Aaron Gwyn writes about a dinery shooting and Eric Hanson has a great piece about a superhero father and his doting son. Christopher Howard writes a story about Blackwater agents in Iraq in two parts, the first an unremarkable account of a firefight, the second a short and painful episode of a soldier returning home to complete indifference. Philippe Soupault provides the only low point with a "story" that does nothing but describe different houses' interiors and exteriors.

Overall, though, another great issue, great to read, great to own.

Yay, McSweeney's
McSweeney's 24 was bound as a very cool double-issue, with one side being stories centering around "trouble", and the other side containing writer's remembrances of Donald Barthelme.

I wasn't previously familiar with Barthelme's work, but the two uncollected stories published here make clear his influence on writers like George Saunders (whose tribute to and analysis of Barthelme is also here). His prose is considered and compact. And unpredictably weird, like Borges.

Another great issue. McSweeney's is always recommended. You really should subscribe.

Wonderful little surprise
I just recently discovered this quarterly in an attempt to read some new authors and I am pleasantly surprised at the quality of this compilation.The editors at McSweeney's are clearly interesting, thoughtful people and they have put together some great stuff!

The best of the best
This is a keeper. You will reread it any times and always find something new. It is beautifully bound and has excellent material in it. The way it is put together is a surprise and it is well worth owning. ... Read more

Product Description
In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film.Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment to Baldessari's work. Paired with his images, these humorous, insightful, and, in some cases, bizarre meditations investigate one of the most fundamental and telling of all human experiences.A visual and intellectual feast, Yours in Food is sure to entertain and delight readers of fiction, art history, and cultural criticism and all lovers of food.A Blind Spot Book published by Princeton Architectural Press. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Get this book. It's an artful treasure.
This is a truly fabulous book and it's a steal at $6. The book is well-crafted and Baldessari's photos look perfect on the pages. The essays truly form a whole, as the rhythm of the book unfolds. I've been wishing for a book like this for ages. A book that truly fuses art with food. This book is a must have for any reader of the magazine Gastronomy.

Nicely written and fun!
I am a photographer [...] and also teach photography full time. In my commercial photography class, I asked my students to read some of the essays before they shoot food photography as part of their assignments. We had class discussion about the essays and it was great. We love it! Very smart, fun, and definitely highly recommended.
... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (4)

Weak tea
McSweeney's 23 is a large hardback book (written on the cover is "Still going strong... like Castro") with a wraparound cover designed by Andrea Dezso which unfolds into a massive poster which on the flipside has dozens of short short stories by Dave Eggers. The poster is ace but I didn't read any of the short stories by Eggers as it's just uncomfortable and awkward holding a piece of paper that big and squinting at the spiralling paragraphs. The ones I read were so so. Andrea Deszo also designs front and back covers for each short story within which is very cool.

Though of the 10 stories within I only really liked Deb Olin Unferth's "Bride" about a deluded man who heads off to meet his ex-girlfriend years after they've broken up to see if she'll leave her husband and kids and run off with him. Along the way he picks up a madwoman about to get married and finally arrive at the ex-girlfriend's house. The ending is great and the whole story is original and funny.

It's the only good story here. Wells Tower's "Retreat" is like the story in his book "Everything Ravaged..." except it's told from the point of view of the other brother. This would be interesting except very few new details emerge and so the story doesn't really need to be written. Having read this same story now twice, it's good but really only the first time.

Roddy Doyle's "Black Hoodie" is good as always while there are a couple of average stories like Shawn Vestal's "About As Fast As This Car Will Go" about a young boy whose felon father takes his own scamming and eventually swallows up his life in crime with a holdup. Chris Bachelder's "My Son, There Exists Another World Alongside Our Own" really only just says "have sex a lot" which I'm going to assume most people already know (although I'm sure some of the really bookish out there are probably asexual like Henry James and will probably dismiss the story) and so seems a bit pointless.

Mostly a token effort, this issue looks good and is produced to a high standard but the stories are a bit of a let down and ultimately might put you off McSweeney's for a couple of years. McSweeney's 29 is brilliant and I recommend checking that out instead.

Sharp Looks/Strong Content
One of the strongest issues of the McSweeney's series. The art, first of all, is very strong, the bookcover being a poster-sized piece by artist Andrea Dezso on one side and scads of short shorts by Dave Eggers on the other. 23 is an issue worth owning, showing friends, enjoying, and reading repeatedly.

In this issue, the Unknowns outclass and outwrite the Knowns, with two utter homeruns from Wells Tower and Chris Bachelder and superb stories by Shawn Vestal, Deb Olin Unferth, Christopher Stokes, April Wilder, and Caren Beilin. The Knowns--Roddy Doyle and Ann Beattie--turn in some duds (Beattie's is super rotten), but the wealth of much stronger work easily eclipses those two lows.

Stories include the original version of "Retreat" by Tower, told from the other brother's perspective (a nice companion piece/B-side to Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned), Bachelder's uproarious letter from a father to his son to live a life more lecherous than his own, Stokes' story of Michael Rockefeller bumblingly visiting Irian Jaya, Wilder's steakhouse date story forgivable for being a date story by being terrifically uncomfortable, and Unferth's tale of a man who chances upon a new bride on his way to pick up his first. Eggers' short shorts are almost entirely hits, funny and poignant as short shorts are supposed to be.

Always a Pleasant Surprise
McSweeney's always manages to have some fascinating content, even if it is periodically hit-or-miss. #23 however, is a home-run. There isn't a dull story in the bunch and it ranks up there probably in my top 3 issues. Highest rec.

Another Fantastic Issue
Much has been said about Mcsweeney's, both on the quality of writing and design that goes into their lit mag and issue 23 once again hits the mark. Filled with fantastic stories by some little known---Shawn Vestal, Christopher Stokes, April Wilder---and some well know---Roddy Doyle, Anne Beattie---authors, issue 23 is one great story after the other. Do your self a favor and pick up this issue, one of Mcsweeney's best yet. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (11)

Comics at their best
The newspaper comic strip has been around for a little over a century and the earliest comic books are around eighty years old themselves.That's a reasonably long time, and there have been a lot of people who've worked in the field.Many have been pretty mediocre, a small group have been good, and there are an elite few who've been truly great.Although you may not agree with the complete list (I don't), Masters of American Comics does a pretty good job selecting the artists who belong in this elite group.

This coffee table book is divided into two parts.In the first section, we get a history of the comics in general, with a particular focus on the contributions of the elite artists.The second section is a collection of essays by various writers both inside and outside the comic industry; each essay deals with one of the fifteen featured artists.

Who are these artists (who also often wrote their material)?The first (both chronologically and within the book) is Windsor McCay whose Little Nemo in Slumberland remains one of the most wildly imaginative comic strips ever.McCay, incidentally, was also one of the very earliest animators.Lyonel Feininger's career was pretty brief, but his Kinder-Kids strips offer some more mind-bending art.George Herriman was the creator of arguably the greatest comic strip ever, Krazy Kat.E.C. Segar brought Popeye to the world in a comic strip that was far more clever than any of the cartoons.

Frank King's Gasoline Alley dealt with more of the mundane aspects of life, but did so brilliantly; it is the longest active comic, though King's successors have made it a pale shadow of its former self.Chester Gould's Dick Tracy brought hard-boiled crime to the comics, and Milton Caniff raised adventure to a new level with Terry and the Pirates (and later Steve Canyon).

More modern artists include Charles Schulz, whose Peanuts is probably the most popular strip ever.Will Eisner brought a new respectability to the medium with The Spirit.Jack Kirby, the first real comic book artist in the bunch, is well-worth mention for his part in creating most of the great Marvel superheroes (and a few DC characters too).Harvey Kurtzmann does not have a single famous character, but his role in the EC comics of the 1950s and the early Mad Magazine was considerable.

R. Crumb was a major figure in the early underground comics movement.Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware are all still active and further extending the boundaries of what comics can be.Spiegelman would also win a Pulitzer for his Holocaust epic, Maus, demonstrating that the medium was more than just kids' fare.

There is a heap of art in Masters of American comics, much of it in color, making this quite a treat, and an excellent companion piece to the museum exhibition which inspired it.It also shows that quality and popularity are two almost separate fields:the big strips of today - Garfield, Dennis the Menace, Cathy, Marmaduke, et al - are not even mentioned.Yes, you might not like every artist selected (for example, I cannot find much to like about Panter, whose distinct art must be an acquired taste) and you might think of others worthy of inclusion (for example Steve Ditko, Alex Raymond or Bill Watterson).Nevertheless, this book is a gem which not only provides a history of the comics, but is a great pleasure to read.

Not what it could have been
MASTERS OF AMERICAN COMICS strives to be an overview of this interesting group of artists, but suffers from the fatal flaw of examining comic strips and comic books in the same work. These two very different types of storytelling don't really belong together and it gives the book a split personality. While beautifully illustrated and well-researched, this would have proven to be more valuable had it focused on one genre or the other. Despite my affection for both of these men and their creations; Charles Schulz and Jack Kirby are just not natural companions in any book. Also missing were any number of comic strip artists. Al Capp, Noel Sickles, Walt Kelly, and Alex Raymond are all mentioned but are given the short end of the stick here. Their presence would have been preferable to Crumb or Panter's; not because these men are not talented, but rather it would have made this work more cohesive. I understand this is a companion book to a joint exhibition of Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art, but as such the exhibition suffered from the same flaw. If you are interested in the history of the comic strip in America this will be a nice sampler, but it obviously could have been much more.

Peanuts and Jimbo; an uneasy marriage.
I loved the idea of reproducing much of the art from the original work, with editor's notes, erasures, pencil lines all showing. However, the mixture of the work of hugely popular mass-market artists like Schultz and (in the underground, Crumb) with more recent avante-guarde artists like Panter seemed odd to me. Peanuts was a cultural phenomenon, but has anyone actually ever read "Jimbo". I didn't, even when I bought "Raw" years ago. I appreciate boomer artists raised on the pulps would want to do something more "high-brow", but for me, the very nature of the medium mitigates against the sophisticated existentialism of, say, Chris Ware. Sure, I guess that has it's place, but what makes comics great is how the artists develop ways of making it easier for anyone to read and understand, not harder.

Off The Wall Popular Culture Definitive Volume-A Must Have.
As a Lender to the Exhibition this book covers in its voluminous pages, the actual chance to see the exhibitions in LA, Milwaukee and New Jersey Museums was only aided by this graceful tome. Four Stars ****!

Damaged cover on a great book
I purchased this book for a Christmas gift, the cover was damaged and it should have been protected in shipping.
The box it was shipped in was in perfect condition the inner protection, well there was none!

I purchased this book as a gift for the person who viewed the exhibit with me, it's an excellent book, a great retrospect. ... Read more

Product Description
Word count: 1484. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 3509 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Dave Eggers. You Shall Know Our Velocity.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Tim Feeney
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 23Issue: 1Page: 143(2)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 3509 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Dave Eggers. You Shall Know Our Velocity.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Tim Feeney
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 23Issue: 1Page: 143(2)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 853 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: ¿Qué Eggers! (Best Seller).(Dave Eggers, autor)(publicación de sus libros )
Author: León Krauze
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 4Issue: 49Page: 92(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1203 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Flamboyantly humble.(Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity)(Book Review)
Author: Max Watman
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 21Issue: 4Page: 93(2)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 516 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Cuando el policía detuvo a los peces: la velocidad y el humor caracterizan la prosa de Dave Eggers, una de las voces que descuellan con más vigor en el panorama de la nueva narrativa estadounidense. En este brevísimo y tragicómico relato, la incredulidad se suspende desde el inicio mismo de la lectura.
Author: Dave Eggers
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 7Issue: 80Page: 22(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Prior scholarship has identified Dave Eggers? work as postmodern,focusing on the preface to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius(A.H.W.O.S.G.). Because this prefacing indicates Eggers? status as thesubjected author of postmodernity, it is easy to dismiss him as apostmodern author. The establishment of Eggers as a conscientiousauthor aware of the pitfalls of the postmodern author-subject providesthe acknowledgment necessary for Eggers to move beyond thepostmodern realm. His memoir is a transitional piece of literature. Itserves as a bridge from the postmodern to the contemporary state ofliterature concerned with the transgression of all boundaries, a state Iterm connectivism. Thus, Eggers? three major works since A.H.W.O.S.G.(You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, and What is theWhat) and the formation of his publishing company, McSweeney?s, areexamples of how authorship, literature, and literary culture havemoved beyond the postmodern. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Bill Clinton, E. O. Wilson, Bono, Sylvia Earle, Dave Eggers, Karen Armstrong, Larry Brilliant, Edward Burtynsky, James Nachtwey, José Antonio Abreu, Cameron Sinclair, Neil Turok, Robert Fischell, Jill Tarter, Jehane Noujaim, Evgeny Morozov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were younger when entering office. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, he is known as the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. She was previously a United States Senator from New York, and also candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Both are graduates of Yale Law School. Clinton was described as a New Democrat and was largely known for the Third Way philosophy of governance that came to epitomize his two terms as president. His policies, on issues such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been described as centrist. Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a federal surplus. The Congressional Budget Office reported a surplus of $236 billion in 2000, the last full year of Clinton's presidency. On the heels of a failed attempt at health care reform with a Democratic Congress, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. Two years later, in 1996, Clinton was re-elected and became the first member of the Democrati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3356 ... Read more