War of the Words: 20 Years of Writing on Contemporary Literature - Joy Press - Paperback - 1ST

The Village Voice Literary Supplement Twenty Years of: 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, theVoice Literary Supplementis 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 Wordspreserves 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 theVLS.Press, Joy is the author of 'War of the Words: 20 Years of Writing on Contemporary Literature - Joy Press - Paperback - 1ST' with ISBN 9780609808535 and ISBN 0609808532.