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War of the Words: 20 Years of Writing on Contemporary Literature
The Village Voice Literary Supplement – Twenty Years
Blasting the Canon
Relocating the Cutting Edge
Resurrecting the Forgotten
* Albert Mobilio on Gertrude Stein * David Foster Wallace on Feodor Dostoevsky * Henry Louis Gates on Langston Hughes * Blanche McCrary Boyd on Katherine Anne Porter * Paul Elie on John Cheever * Bharati Mukherjee on Salman Rushdie * Andrew O’Hagan on Don DeLillo * Michele Wallace on Zora Neale Hurston * Erik Davis on Philip K. Dick * Gary Indiana on Thomas Bernhard * Greg Tate on Samuel Delany * Edmund White on Djuna Barnes * Joe Wood on Albert Murray * Darcey Steinke on William Goyen * Rick Moody on Angela Carter * Walter Kendrick on the Freud Backlash * Ellen Willis on Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Black Feminism * Richard Goldstein on Plague Literature in the Age of AIDS * Thulani Davis on Buppie Writers * Michael B?rub? on Postmodernism * Michael Warner on Queer Theory * Scott L. Malcomson on Whiteness and Anthropology * Lynne Tillman on the Future of Fiction * Dorothy Allison on Anne Rice * Lisa Jones on Black Romance Novels * Geoffrey O’Brien on Classic Comics * Hilton Als on Sammy Davis, Jr. * Greil Marcus on Situationism * Guy Trebay on the Warhol Diaries * Vince Aletti on Physique Magazines * Jonathan Lethem on Science Fiction’s Lost Promise * Paul Berman on The Pentagon Catalog * Mark Dery on Apocalypse Culture * Peter Schjeldahl on Dennis Cooper * C. Carr on Kathy Acker * Stacy D’Erasmo on Mary Gaitskill * David Shields on Nicholson Baker * Katherine Dieckmann on Lorrie Moore * Jeff Yang on Chang-Rae Lee * Richard B. Woodward on Jonathan Lethem
A forum for writers who want to test the boundaries of the traditional book review, the Voice Literary Supplement is smart, iconoclastic, and accessible literary and cultural criticism at its best. In a collection of some of the finest pieces culled from the last twenty years, War of the Words preserves the flavor of this revolutionary magazine and will introduce a whole new generation of readers to the riskiness, urgency, and fun that has always characterized the VLS .
Blasting the Canon
Relocating the Cutting Edge
Resurrecting the Forgotten
* Albert Mobilio on Gertrude Stein * David Foster Wallace on Feodor Dostoevsky * Henry Louis Gates on Langston Hughes * Blanche McCrary Boyd on Katherine Anne Porter * Paul Elie on John Cheever * Bharati Mukherjee on Salman Rushdie * Andrew O’Hagan on Don DeLillo * Michele Wallace on Zora Neale Hurston * Erik Davis on Philip K. Dick * Gary Indiana on Thomas Bernhard * Greg Tate on Samuel Delany * Edmund White on Djuna Barnes * Joe Wood on Albert Murray * Darcey Steinke on William Goyen * Rick Moody on Angela Carter * Walter Kendrick on the Freud Backlash * Ellen Willis on Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Black Feminism * Richard Goldstein on Plague Literature in the Age of AIDS * Thulani Davis on Buppie Writers * Michael B?rub? on Postmodernism * Michael Warner on Queer Theory * Scott L. Malcomson on Whiteness and Anthropology * Lynne Tillman on the Future of Fiction * Dorothy Allison on Anne Rice * Lisa Jones on Black Romance Novels * Geoffrey O’Brien on Classic Comics * Hilton Als on Sammy Davis, Jr. * Greil Marcus on Situationism * Guy Trebay on the Warhol Diaries * Vince Aletti on Physique Magazines * Jonathan Lethem on Science Fiction’s Lost Promise * Paul Berman on The Pentagon Catalog * Mark Dery on Apocalypse Culture * Peter Schjeldahl on Dennis Cooper * C. Carr on Kathy Acker * Stacy D’Erasmo on Mary Gaitskill * David Shields on Nicholson Baker * Katherine Dieckmann on Lorrie Moore * Jeff Yang on Chang-Rae Lee * Richard B. Woodward on Jonathan Lethem
A forum for writers who want to test the boundaries of the traditional book review, the Voice Literary Supplement is smart, iconoclastic, and accessible literary and cultural criticism at its best. In a collection of some of the finest pieces culled from the last twenty years, War of the Words preserves the flavor of this revolutionary magazine and will introduce a whole new generation of readers to the riskiness, urgency, and fun that has always characterized the VLS .
336 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2001
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August 21, 2015
Took me longer because I underlined a lot of the book. Anyway, here are some choice essays and their authors:
"Ghetto In The Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Whole" by Greg Tate
"Black Narcissus" by Hilton Als
"Of Human Bondage: Mary Gaitskill's Rough Trade" by Stacy D'Erasmo
"Under Nightwood" by Edmund White
"The Long Walk of the Situationist International" by Greil Marcus
"Sex, Sin and the Pursuit of Literary Excellence: Anne Rice's Triple Threat" by Dorothy Allison
"Love African-American Style: Happily Ever After with Black Romances" by Lisa Jones
"The Truth About Fiction" by Lynne Tillman
"Secret Asian Man: Live and Let Dialect" by Jeff Yang
"Banal Redemptive: Andy Warhol's Romance of the Pose" by Guy Trebay
"The Soloist: Albert Murray's Blues People" by Joe Wood
"Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex" by Ellen Willis
"National Enquirer: Don DeLillo Gets Under America's Skin" by Andrew O'Hagan
"Ghetto In The Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Whole" by Greg Tate
"Black Narcissus" by Hilton Als
"Of Human Bondage: Mary Gaitskill's Rough Trade" by Stacy D'Erasmo
"Under Nightwood" by Edmund White
"The Long Walk of the Situationist International" by Greil Marcus
"Sex, Sin and the Pursuit of Literary Excellence: Anne Rice's Triple Threat" by Dorothy Allison
"Love African-American Style: Happily Ever After with Black Romances" by Lisa Jones
"The Truth About Fiction" by Lynne Tillman
"Secret Asian Man: Live and Let Dialect" by Jeff Yang
"Banal Redemptive: Andy Warhol's Romance of the Pose" by Guy Trebay
"The Soloist: Albert Murray's Blues People" by Joe Wood
"Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex" by Ellen Willis
"National Enquirer: Don DeLillo Gets Under America's Skin" by Andrew O'Hagan
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