Dale Peck. (2016). The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction. Soho Press.

Dale Peck. 2016. The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction. Soho Press.

Dale Peck, The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction. Soho Press, 2016.

Dale Peck. The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction. Soho Press, 2016.

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   • bioText: Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have appeared in dozens of publications, and have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he has taught in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program since 1999.
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     Mary Gaitskill, Bret Easton Ellis, Denis Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Raymond Carver, A.M. Homes, Amy Hempel, Susan Minot, Patrick McGrath, Dorothy Allison, Eileen Myles, Dennis Cooper, Jessica Hagedorn, Lynne Tillman, Christopher Bram, Robert Glück, Brad Gooch, Gary Indiana, Jim Lewis, Suzanne Gardinier, Sarah Schulman, Laurie Weeks, Sam D'Allesandro, Bruce Benderson, Dodie Bellamy, David Wojnarowicz, Essex Hemphill, Jaime Manrique, John Keene, Gil Cuadros, Kevin Killian, Randall Kenan, and Rebecca Brown.
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In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s.
Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been freshly emphasized by the AIDS epidemic, the 34 works gathered here are individually vivid, but taken as a body of work, they challenge the prevailing notion of the ’80s as a time of aesthetic as well as financial maximalism. Formally inventive yet tightly controlled, they offer a more expansive, inclusive view of the era’s literary accomplishments.
The anthology blends early stories from writers like Denis Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, and Raymond Carver, which have gone on to become part of the American canon, with remarkable and often transgressive work from some of the most celebrated writers of the underground, including Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles, Lynne Tillman, and Gary Indiana. Peck has also included powerful work by writers such as Gil Cuadros, Essex Hemphill, and Sam D’Allesandro, whose untimely deaths from AIDS ended their careers almost before they had begun. Almost a third of the stories are out of print and unavailable elsewhere.
The Soho Press Book of ’80s Short Fiction is a daring reappraisal of a decade that is increasingly central to our culture.

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     Starred review from April 15, 2016
     A new anthology of fiction explores the chaotic literary energy of the 1980s. The 1980s were a vibrant period for American fiction. On the one hand, there were the so-called "Dirty Realists": Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson. On the other, the gritty urban writers of the Lower East Side, such as Lynne Tillman, Dennis Cooper, and David Wojnarowicz. Somewhere in the middle were the literary brat packers, including Bret Easton Ellis. Add Los Angeles' Gil Cuadros and San Francisco's Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy, and you've got a potent mix encapsulating the tensions, aesthetic or otherwise, of the decade: AIDS, economic disruption, a disconnect between official culture (Ronald Reagan's Morning in America) and the more treacherous realities of the street. "It may be that history--whatever 'history' is anymore--remembers the '80s as the last analog moment when human beings were what we had always been, before we're fully digitized into whatever hive creature information technology is in the process of creating," editor Peck writes in his introduction to this far-reaching collection. That's an important aspect of the era, too. All these concerns, these implications, mark the 34 stories Peck has gathered, which are notable for their pointedness as well as their diversity. In "Pretending to Say No," Bruce Benderson imagines Nancy Reagan showing up at a crack house (or does she?), where she reveals a fundamental secret about herself. A.M. Homes' "A Real Doll" is narrated by a boy who doses his sister's Barbie with Valium so he can have sex with her--an oddly human experience for all its transgressive fantasy. Some of the stories here (Johnson's "Work" or Carver's magnificent "So Much Water So Close to Home") are widely recognized, but others, including Eileen Myles' "Robin" and Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," are lesser known. The result is a collection that avoids cliche or nostalgia in favor of an unexpected and refreshingly inclusive point of view. Peck's collection masterfully evokes the range and diversity of its era.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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