Roy Scranton
American poet and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roy Scranton is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His essays, journalism, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Dissent, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boston Review. His first book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene was published by City Lights. His novel War Porn was released by Soho Press in August 2016. It was called "One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years" by Sam Sacks in The Wall Street Journal. He co-edited Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative.
Roy Scranton's Published Works
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- Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (2015) (175)
- War Porn (2016) (25)
- Choosing War (2016) (16)
- Total Mobilization (2019) (8)
- Walls and shadows (2007) (5)
- Estranged Pain: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> (2014) (3)
- Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State. Mary Losure. 2002. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN. 200 pp. $16.95 paperback. (2003) (2)
- THE 9/11 NOVEL AND THE POLITICS OF NARCISSISM (2012) (1)
- Going outside The Wire: Generation Kill and the failure of detail (2010) (1)
- The Trauma Hero and the Lost War: World War II, American Literature, and the Politics of Trauma, 1945-1975 (2016) (1)
- War kids (2009) (0)
- No-NoMan: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nihilist masterpiece (2021) (0)
- COMING IN: Contemporary Literature Vol. 54, No. 4, Winter 2013 (2013) (0)
- Recognizing the Thing Itself in Harry Mathews’s Cigarettes (2013) (0)
- Swept Up: Who is the subject of climate change? (2018) (0)
- Memories of My Green Machine: Posthumanism at War (2010) (0)
- Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq by Kate McLoughlin (review) (2013) (0)
- FILM IN REVIEW (2018) (0)
- Violence Is Freedom (2021) (0)
- Apocalypse (2020) (0)
- The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode (review) (2012) (0)
- The Fall (2014) (0)
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