Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation

By Doug Rice

Book Overview

Avant-Pop is innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave. They include cult figures in the pop underground (Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Tim Ferret, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe), important new writers who have gained prominence since the late eighties (Mark Leyner, Eurudice, William T. Vollmann), and the most promising new kids on the block ("rap fiction" master Ricardo Cortez Cruz--winner of the 1992 Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction--and Doug Rice, whose obscenely obsessive, Faulkner-meets-Acker prose is showcased here for the first time).

Avant-Pop will send a collective wake-up call to all those readers who have spent the last decade nodding off, along with the rest of America's daydream nation. Avant-Pop will actually reverse the numbing effects of years of exposure to the harmful emissions of television, movies, glossy magazines, and commercial bestsellers. Readers who decry the absence of a liberating radicalized art and have had it with our bland B-movie society of the spectacle will hop with the hip in Avant-Pop.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932511724
• ISBN13: 9780932511720
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: F2c
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Hit Me With That PoMo Stick!

This is one of the best anthologies I have ever read. It's eclectic, iconoclastic, cool, quirky and weird. There are stories that are funny, sexy, sad, bizarre, of questionable sexuality and even a comic format story and de Sade's manual of style. Jill St. Jacque and Harry Polkinhorn especially stick out.

escape into the raw flow

I don't know how I acquired my copy of this book but I found it while cleaning house last week and decided to read it. I am glad I did. The post-modern imagery is so over-the-top that it was impossible to focus on my troubles. A must-read for anyone who has ever seriously considered, for instance, walking accross a desert with no canteen just to see if you can.