The following is an edited and re-worked excerpt of a seminar paper I wrote for a 21st-Century Fiction class at the University at Buffalo in the spring of 2016. The suburbanization of the post-war United States proved a bounty for corporations just beginning to realize the means to tighten their grasp on the key to … Continue reading DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
Tag: creativewriting
10 July 2016
There is a man living somewhere in the Elmwood Village strip of Buffalo who plays saxophone or air-flute, closing his eyes willing into existence the sound of jazz through pure, unapologetic imagination. The instruments do not exist, and I hear no sound. I'm not a musician, only a listener, pale ears in a crowd, calloused … Continue reading 10 July 2016
13 March
On the first day that I visited her she told me that a spring in her mattress had been making a noise. As we laid there and moved around, the spring made a noise and I knew what she had meant. When you left me I could not speak or breathe. I was chained to a reservoir … Continue reading 13 March
Adirondack Winters
Huntington Memorial Camp. Raquette Lake, New York- in the Adirondack Mountains. 2016 has been my first winter in graduate school, and my first winter in quite some time to not visit this special place. The walk to the church wasn’t terribly long, maybe three quarters of a mile, but with our boots sinking into the … Continue reading Adirondack Winters
Jacob Richter 