Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. His work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing Storming the Reality Studio, an anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as William Gibson, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, and Harold Jaffe, as well as non-fiction by wri...
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Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. His work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing Storming the Reality Studio, an anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as William Gibson, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, and Harold Jaffe, as well as non-fiction by writers such as Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida. Other notable anthologies are Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Black Ice Books, 1993) and After Yesterday's Crash (Penguin Books, 1997).
McCaffery was co-editor-in-chief of Fiction International from 1986-1998. He is briefly mentioned in Raymond Federman's novel The Twofold Vibration. He has also been quoted in an article in The New Yorker about David Foster Wallace's legacy. Dubbed by "avant-prof" critic Lance Olsen as "Guru of the interview", he has published four volumes of...
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