- Larry McCaffery
Larry McCaffery is a
literary critic , editor, and retiredprofessor of English andComparative Literature atSan 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 asWilliam Gibson ,Samuel Delany ,Don DeLillo ,Kathy Acker , andHarold Jaffe , as well as non-fiction by writers such asJean Baudrillard andJacques Derrida .McCaffery was co-editor in chief of "
Fiction International " from 1986-1998. He is briefly mentioned inRaymond Federman 's novel "The Twofold Vibration". Dubbed by "avant-prof" criticLance Olsen as "Guru of the interview", he has published four volumes of interviews with contemporary authors, ranging fromRaymond Carver toBarry Hannah toWilliam T. Vollmann andDerek Pell . He has championed the work of many new, young writers such asBen Marcus ,Michael Hemmingson, Mark Z. Danielewski , andMark 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 introduction.ee also
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David Foster Wallace
*List of cyberpunk works Publications
* McCaffery, Larry. "The Metafictional Muse." Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.
*_____. "Storming the Reality Studio" Durham: Duke University Press, 1991 (isbn 9780822311683)
*_____ and Michael Hemmingson, editors. "Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader". NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004.External links
* [http://www.altx.com/interviews/larry.mccaffery.htmlcInterview with McCaffery]
* [http://www.litline.org/ABR/Issues/Volume20/Issue6/abr100.html The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English Language Books of Fiction, List by Larry McCaffery at ABR]
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