Skeptical Essays in the 21st Century: Individuals, Institutions, Errors, Issues
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Publisher: Autonomedia
Author: Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 9781570272127
Published: 08/2010
Format: Paperback
Page count: 240
Size: 6 x 9
Kostelanetz examines, critiques, and often skewers major figures, cultural institutions, and movements of our 21st century with considerable wit and humor. A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit, Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, Barack Obama, Dubya and his sidekicks, Susan Sontag, The New York Times Book Review, Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Victims of Literary Bullying, Pushcart Prize anthologies, The Readers' Catalog, the New York Yankees, Idiot-Identifiers, Manuscript Filchers, Literary Correspondence and more.
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