"The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older." -Pink Floyd Around eighth grade or so, I began to catch on to a little secret my dad had been casually holding out in front of me for a few years: there is some serious pleasure to be gained from an appreciation of … Continue reading Classic Rock
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DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
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