avant garde
White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road
Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.
&Now Conference Review
Late Breaking: William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Rob Wittig post from Notre Dame University on the &Now festival of writers and writing.
A Poetry of Noesis
On Joseph McElroy's Fiction as a lifelong, dramatic investigation of noesis - that abstract but
evocative concept rooted in Platonic idealism and redefined(through Phenomenology) as
those ineluctable acts of consciousness that constitute reality.
Blank Frank
This review of Ralph Berry's novel Frank and the subsequent exchange between the authors, appeared in the March/April 2006 and July/August 2006 issues of The American Book Review.
And Furthermore…
R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi