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Larry McCaffery

Literature

#361

World Rank

#997

Historical Rank

#180

USA Rank

Literary Criticism

#69

World Rank

#116

Historical Rank

#27

USA Rank

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Larry McCaffery's Degrees

PhD English University of Iowa
Masters English University of Iowa

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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence F. McCaffery Jr. is an American literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. His work and teaching focuses on postmodern literature, contemporary fiction, and Bruce Springsteen. He also played a role in helping to establish science fiction as a major literary genre.

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Larry McCaffery's Published Works

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Published Works

An Interview with David Foster Wallace (1993) (111)
The American Novel and the Way We Live Now@@@Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists (1987) (57)
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction (1993) (45)
The Metafictional Muse: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass (1982) (39)
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction (2012) (34)
Haunted House—An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski (2003) (31)
Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers (1990) (24)
The Vineland papers : critical takes on Pynchon's novel (1994) (19)
The Art of Metafiction (1976) (17)
It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing: An Interview with Haruki Murakami (2002) (16)
Storming the Reality Studio (1991) (15)
The Artists of Hell: Kathy Acker and "Punk" Aesthetics (1992) (11)
After yesterday's crash : the avant-pop anthology (1995) (11)
Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (1996) (10)
An Interview with Ursula Le Guin (2011) (10)
An Interview with John Irving (1982) (6)
A Pynchon for the Nineties@@@Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text@@@Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power@@@The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel@@@Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis@@@The Postmodernist Allegories of Thomas Pynchon@@@New Essays on "The (1997) (6)
Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (1992) (6)
At the Heart of Things Darkness and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet (1998) (6)
Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s (1987) (6)
Full Metal Apache (2017) (5)
Head Water: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor (1993) (5)
Donald Barthelme and the Metafictional Muse (1980) (4)
Major's Reflex and Bone Structure and the Anti-Detective Tradition (1979) (4)
As Guilty as the Rest of Them: An Interview with Robert Coover (2000) (3)
Meaning and Non-Meaning in Barthelme's Fictions. (1979) (3)
An interview with Steve Erickson (1997) (3)
An Interview with Raymond Federman (1983) (3)
An Interview with William T. Vollmann (1993) (3)
Barthelme’s Snow White (1975) (3)
Why Not Have Fun?-An Interview with Gen'ichiro Takahashi (2002) (2)
Introduction: The Desert of the Real (2012) (2)
Literary Disruptions: Fiction in a "Post-Contemporary" Age@@@Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction (1976) (2)
"Death Kit": Susan Sontag's Dream Narrative (1979) (2)
Barth's "LETTERS" and the Literature of Replenishment (1980) (2)
The Avant-Pop Phenomenon (1992) (2)
An Interview with Susan Daitch (1993) (1)
Absurdity and Oppositions in William Eastlake’s Southwestern Novels (1977) (1)
Skating across Cyberpunk's Brave New Worlds: An Interview with Lewis Shiner (1992) (1)
Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations (2012) (1)
Sophisticated Masochism: An Interview with Masahiko Shimada (2002) (1)
Kathy Acker: Always Missing—A Plagiarized Tribute (2010) (1)
Not Just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki (2002) (1)
On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview with Gene Wolfe (2007) (1)
Postmodernism from A to Z@@@Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide (1989) (1)
"I Follow My Eyes": An Interview with Clarence Major (1994) (1)
Surfiction@@@Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow (1977) (1)
Nobody's Instrument: Jerzy Kosinski@@@Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski@@@Plays of Passion, Games of Chance: Jerzy Kosinski and His Fiction (1988) (1)
The Fiction Collective@@@Reruns@@@Museum@@@Twiddledum, Twaddledum (1978) (1)
Remembering Raymond Federman (2010) (1)
Bird outside the Cage: An Interview with Yumi Matsuo (2002) (0)
A (Very) Selective Bibliography of Modern and Postmodern Japanese Fiction and Culture (English Translation Only) (2002) (0)
“A Search for the Most Deeply Hidden Human Values”: Film Adaptations of Post-1950 Novels (2012) (0)
A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder (2006) (0)
And Still They Smooch : Erotic Visions and Re-visions in Postmodern American Fiction (1984) (0)
A Meaning in Art That's No Longer Possible: An Interview with Kiyoshi Kasai (2002) (0)
Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru (2006) (0)
The Twister of Imagination: An Interview with Mariko Ohara (2002) (0)
A William H. Gass Bibliography (1976) (0)
An American Requiem: Elegies for Thirteen Novelists (2010) (0)
FEDERMAN'S FICTIONS (2011) (0)
Everything in the Verge of Becoming Something Else: An Interview with Ted Mooney (1999) (0)
Faking Literature (review) (2002) (0)
The Public Burning, Coover's Fiery Masterpiece, on Center Stage Again (2000) (0)
New Rules of the Game (1977) (0)
Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin (2006) (0)
Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu (2006) (0)
This Conflict between Illusion and Brutal Reality: An Interview with Yoriko Shono (2002) (0)
What We Talk about When We Talk about Writing (1988) (0)
Remarks, Notes, Introduction and Other Guest-Editorial Texts Prefacing Postmodern Culture's Special Fiction Issue Devoted to Postmodern Fiction (1992) (0)
SDSU Library & Information Access Donor Honor Roll (2010) (0)
Oscillating Towards and Within the Metamodern (2015) (0)
Keeping Not Writing: An Interview (2006) (0)
Talking about "The Shining" With Diane Johnson (1981) (0)
Stanley Elkin's Recovery of the Ordinary (1979) (0)
American Fiction of the Sixties@@@The Story of Identity: American Fiction of the Sixties (1981) (0)
The Fiction Collective, 1974-1978: An Innovative Alternative (1978) (0)
Contemporary Fiction@@@Novel vs. Fiction: The Contemporary Reformation (1984) (0)
Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard’s Crash (2006) (0)
Avant-pop,Apres-pop (島田雅彦 ) (1994) (0)
Contemporary Fiction@@@The American Novel and the Way We Live Now@@@The Metafictional Muse: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass (1985) (0)
Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yanagita, and Akutagawa (2006) (0)
Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s (2006) (0)
Keeping Not Writing: An Interview with Yasutaka Tsutsui (2002) (0)
Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades (2006) (0)
Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light (2006) (0)
Postmodern American Fiction@@@Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction (1985) (0)
The Contributors (1992) (0)
The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A General Introduction (1986) (0)

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