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'''Larry McCaffery''' is a [[literary critic]], [[editing|editor]], and retired [[professor]] of [[English language|English]] and [[Comparative Literature]] at [[San Diego State University]]. His work focuses on [[post-modern literature]], [[science fiction]], and contemporary [[fiction]]. He is best known for editing ''[[Storming the Reality Studio]]'', an anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as [[William Gibson]], [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Don DeLillo]], [[Kathy Acker]], and [[Harold Jaffe]], as well as non-fiction by writers such as [[Jean Baudrillard]] and [[Jacques Derrida]]. Other notable anthologies are ''Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation'' (Black Ice Books, 1993) and ''After Yesterday's Crash'' (Penguin Books, 1997). |
'''Larry McCaffery''' is a [[literary critic]], [[editing|editor]], and retired [[professor]] of [[English language|English]] and [[Comparative Literature]] at [[San Diego State University]]. His work focuses on [[post-modern literature]], [[science fiction]], and contemporary [[fiction]]. He is best known for editing ''[[Storming the Reality Studio]]'', an anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as [[William Gibson]], [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Don DeLillo]], [[Kathy Acker]], and [[Harold Jaffe]], as well as non-fiction by writers such as [[Jean Baudrillard]] and [[Jacques Derrida]]. Other notable anthologies are ''Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation'' (Black Ice Books, 1993) and ''After Yesterday's Crash'' (Penguin Books, 1997). McCaffery is one of the proponents of the [[Avantpop]] trend in US literature. |
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McCaffery was co-editor-in-chief of ''[[Fiction International]]'' from 1986-1998. He is briefly mentioned in [[Raymond Federman]]'s novel ''The Twofold Vibration''. He has also been quoted in an article in ''The New Yorker'' about [[David Foster Wallace]]'s legacy.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max</ref> Dubbed by "avant-prof" critic [[Lance Olsen]] as "Guru of the interview", he has published four volumes of interviews with contemporary authors, ranging from [[Raymond Carver]] to [[Barry Hannah]] to [[William T. Vollmann]] and [[Derek Pell]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_pell</ref>. He has championed the work of many new, young writers such as [[Ben Marcus]], [[Michael Hemmingson]], [[Mark Z. Danielewski]], and [[Mark Leyner.]] |
McCaffery was co-editor-in-chief of ''[[Fiction International]]'' from 1986-1998. He is briefly mentioned in [[Raymond Federman]]'s novel ''The Twofold Vibration''. He has also been quoted in an article in ''The New Yorker'' about [[David Foster Wallace]]'s legacy.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max</ref> Dubbed by "avant-prof" critic [[Lance Olsen]] as "Guru of the interview", he has published four volumes of interviews with contemporary authors, ranging from [[Raymond Carver]] to [[Barry Hannah]] to [[William T. Vollmann]] and [[Derek Pell]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_pell</ref>. He has championed the work of many new, young writers such as [[Ben Marcus]], [[Michael Hemmingson]], [[Mark Z. Danielewski]], and [[Mark Leyner.]] |
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Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. His work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing Storming the Reality Studio, an anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as William Gibson, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, and Harold Jaffe, as well as non-fiction by writers such as Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida. Other notable anthologies are Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Black Ice Books, 1993) and After Yesterday's Crash (Penguin Books, 1997). McCaffery is one of the proponents of the Avantpop trend in US literature.
McCaffery was co-editor-in-chief of Fiction International from 1986-1998. He is briefly mentioned in Raymond Federman's novel The Twofold Vibration. He has also been quoted in an article in The New Yorker about David Foster Wallace's legacy.[1] Dubbed by "avant-prof" critic Lance Olsen as "Guru of the interview", he has published four volumes of interviews with contemporary authors, ranging from Raymond Carver to Barry Hannah to William T. Vollmann and Derek Pell[2]. He has championed the work of many new, young writers such as Ben Marcus, Michael Hemmingson, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Mark Leyner.
He created a theory of media/visual studies about the relation between memory, narrative, and sexuality called Avant-Porn. In 2000, Michael Hemmingson edited an anthology, WTF: The Avant-Porn Anthology (Soft Skull Press) for which McCaffery wrote the preface, "Dust Devil,"[3] a true account.
Selected publications
- McCaffery, Larry. The Metafictional Muse. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.
- _____. Storming the Reality Studio Durham: Duke University Press, 1991 (ISBN 9780822311683)
- _____. Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation. Boulder: Black Ice Books, 1993.
- _____. After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology. NY: Penguin, 1997.
- _____, Thomas Hartyl, and Doug Rice, editors. Raymond Federman: From A to XXX. San Diego: SDSU Press, 1997.
- _____ and Michael Hemmingson, editors. Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader. NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004.
See also
References
External links
- Interview with McCaffery by Alexander Laurence
- The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English Language Books of Fiction, list by Larry McCaffery at ABR
- Dust Devil by Larry McCaffery
- The Unfinished by D.T. Max
- Interview excerpt from CyberPsychos AOD