num_pages: 384
description: 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."Contents:• Introduction: Avant-Pop: Still Life After Yesterday's Crash • essay by Larry McCaffery• Current Events • short story by Steve Katz• The Exorcist • short story by Rikki Ducornet• Incarnations of the Murderer • short story by William T. Vollmann• Moonlight Whoopie Cushion Sonata • short story by Tom Robbins• From Border Brujo • short story by Guillermo Gómez-Peña• From Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America • short story by Craig Baldwin• Oh, Brother • short story by Mark Leyner• From Arc d'X • short story by Steve Erickson• The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed Into Heaven • short story by Don DeLillo• Light • short story by Stephen Wright• Weird Romance • short story by Derek Pell• X ≠ Y? • short story by Susan Daitch• A Lucky Pierre World Premiere • short story by Robert Coover• Victims of Mass Imagination • short story by Lauren Fairbanks• Skinner's Room • short story by William Gibson• Counter Couture • short story by Harold Jaffe• EHMH: A Millennial Romance • short story by Eurudice• Great Breakthroughs in Darkness (Being, Early Entries from 'The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography') • short story by Marc Laidlaw• Straight Hincty • short story by Ricardo Cortez Cruz• Hostile Takeover • short story by Craig Padawer• Notes Scribbled in the Dark While Watching Schindler's List, or What Price Schindler's Pots &amp; Pans? • short story by Raymond Federman• Hand Writing on Wall • short story by Ronald Sukenick• Stone Columbus: Talk Radio from the Santa Maria Casino • short story by Gerald Vizenor• Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko • short story by David Foster Wallace• False Water Society • short story by Ben Marcus• Granmmatron • short story by Mark Amerika• Bad News • short story by Lynne Tillman• Ella's Special Camera: From Waxweb • short story by David Blair• Bonanza • short story by Curtis White• Blackouts • short story by Paul Auster• Heavy Weather • short story by Bruce Sterling• End of the 1980s • short story by Bret Easton Ellis
language: English
title: After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology
titlecomplete: After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology
genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Penguin Books