After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology

by Larry McCaffery (Editor)

Some of the hottest writers of the 90’s shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, “avant-pop,” that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, information-dense culture—cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music—to explore and critically examine that culture.
 
Each of these thirty-two works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and hyper-consumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity. This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twenty-first century.

Genres: Short Stories, Anthologies, Fiction

348 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[GG · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ho trovato più degni di nota i contributi critici di McCaffery a fine volume che non la maggior parte dei racconti selezionati, che in ogni caso - va detto - incarnano la filosofia Avant pop. Non sono una lettrice che con sta roba ci va a nozze, purtroppo.

I racconti che ho preferito:

• Note scarabocchiate al buio guardando Schindler's List, ovvero qual è il prezzo delle pentole & tegami di Schindler? (Raymond Federman)

• Oh fratello! (Mark Leyner)

• Controcouture (Harold Jaffe)

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unfortunely I lost this book years ago. And by lost it I mean I loaned it to an unreliable ex who absconded with it when he headed home to Seattle. But I digress. This book is a wonderful collection of weird, wonderful, silly and slightly horrific short fiction. Not all the stories are excellent, a few are awful, but overall this is a collection that showcases a certain type of literature that rarely gets the attention it deserves.

[Aaron Ambrose · Rating 1 out of 5]

Triple filtered for maximum annoyance, this is a hyper-dated collection of nonsense from a misguided aesthetic from fin de grunge 1995. Most of the stories are as coherent and engaging as a Mad Lib. Out of 32 stories, two didn't actively repel me, so it wasn't hopeless. But that's a 6.25% NON-REPELLENT rate. Ye gods.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good overview of experimental writing.

[Sheila Bitts · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't read all of the stories, but many for my class. I liked the Erickson story the best.

[Carlo Mayer]

Finiti

[Giovanni Botta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finito nel 01/gen/1970 00:00:00