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Enter the Snark

in believer, Dave Eggers, postirony, The Believer, Wipe That Smirk Off Your Face

What should the critic of postironic fiction (i.e., me) make of this American Scholar article by Melvin Jules Bukiet? You can see it from Manhattan if you look carefully across the East River. You can even go there if you follow a young couple (he’s got a goatee and she has a ponytail) onto the […]

Enter the Snark

in believer, Dave Eggers, postirony, The Believer, Wipe That Smirk Off Your Face

What should the critic of postironic fiction (i.e., me) make of this American Scholar article by Melvin Jules Bukiet? You can see it from Manhattan if you look carefully across the East River. You can even go there if you follow a young couple (he’s got a goatee and she has a ponytail) onto the […]

My 2007 Stanford-Berkeley Proposal

in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind, postirony, Tim F. LaHaye

I’m posting the abstract that I submitted for this year’s Stanford-Berkeley Conference, which will be held at Stanford. This paper, when I write it, will become part of my third chapter, on Dave Eggers and McSweeney’s. How to be a Believer: Comparative Ontologies of Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Left Behind (1995) and […]