| Title | : | The Baffler No. 20 |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 |
| Publication | : | First published July 11, 2012 |
Baffling the consensus since 1988, this journal seeks to debunk the ideology of the free market and to drive public discourse in literate and humane directions. Issues contain thundering anti-business salvos from the sharpest minds, as well as poetry, literature, and satirical art.
Contributions for The Baffler No. 20 (The High, the Low, the Vibrant!) include Thomas Frank on creative-class visions of vibrancy, Steve Almond on the postideological pantomiming of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Eugenia Williamson on the narrative conventions of NPR's This American Life, Matt Hinton on the big bucks in the world of college sports, and Jim Newell on the fraudster Adam Wheeler, who faked his way into Harvard.
Contents:
The Head Office
This Cradle Won’t Rock
John Summers
Salvos
Dead End on Shakin’ Street
Thomas Frank
Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics
Jed Perl
The Joke’s on You: Presenting ... The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Steve Almond
Sit-Cons: Class on TV
Heather Havrilesky
Oh, the Pathos! Presenting ... This American Life
Eugenia Williamson
Accountants for Taste: The Pew Charitable Trusts
David D’Arcy
The Dollar Debauch
Dilemmas of the Rentier Class
Chris Lehmann
Into the Infinite
The Threshold of Joy
Kim Phillips-Fein
Notes & Quotes
The Head Office
Kurt Tucholsky
Daniel’s Dictionary
Daniel Aaron
Maze of Doom
Tod Mesirow
A Bad Day in Brooklyn
Emma Garman
Studies in Total Depravity
Party of None: Barack Obama’s annoying journey to the center of belonging
Chris Bray
Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard
Jim Newell
Billionaire Ball: Epitaph for the student-athlete
Matt Hinton
Stories
Lancelot Gomes
Manohar Shetty
Mr. Secondhand
Manohar Shetty
Bhutas
Saskya Jain
Memoir
Delusional Parasitosis and Me
Will Boisvert
Poems
Faulty Logic
Alan Gilbert
Kingdom and Kingdom 2 (a poetics)
Rae Armantrout
The Back Country
Geoffrey O’Brien
Tranche I and Tranche II
Joshua Clover
Projecting Love
Forrest Gander
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Susan Stewart
One Way
Matthea Harvey
The Blackest Black Forest
John Yau
Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers
The Homeless Economist
Remainders
Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Belles Images
Seth Colter Walls
Ancestors
Life and Times of a Libertine
Christopher Lasch
Contributions for The Baffler No. 20 (The High, the Low, the Vibrant!) include Thomas Frank on creative-class visions of vibrancy, Steve Almond on the postideological pantomiming of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Eugenia Williamson on the narrative conventions of NPR's This American Life, Matt Hinton on the big bucks in the world of college sports, and Jim Newell on the fraudster Adam Wheeler, who faked his way into Harvard.
Contents:
The Head Office
This Cradle Won’t Rock
John Summers
Salvos
Dead End on Shakin’ Street
Thomas Frank
Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics
Jed Perl
The Joke’s on You: Presenting ... The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Steve Almond
Sit-Cons: Class on TV
Heather Havrilesky
Oh, the Pathos! Presenting ... This American Life
Eugenia Williamson
Accountants for Taste: The Pew Charitable Trusts
David D’Arcy
The Dollar Debauch
Dilemmas of the Rentier Class
Chris Lehmann
Into the Infinite
The Threshold of Joy
Kim Phillips-Fein
Notes & Quotes
The Head Office
Kurt Tucholsky
Daniel’s Dictionary
Daniel Aaron
Maze of Doom
Tod Mesirow
A Bad Day in Brooklyn
Emma Garman
Studies in Total Depravity
Party of None: Barack Obama’s annoying journey to the center of belonging
Chris Bray
Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard
Jim Newell
Billionaire Ball: Epitaph for the student-athlete
Matt Hinton
Stories
Lancelot Gomes
Manohar Shetty
Mr. Secondhand
Manohar Shetty
Bhutas
Saskya Jain
Memoir
Delusional Parasitosis and Me
Will Boisvert
Poems
Faulty Logic
Alan Gilbert
Kingdom and Kingdom 2 (a poetics)
Rae Armantrout
The Back Country
Geoffrey O’Brien
Tranche I and Tranche II
Joshua Clover
Projecting Love
Forrest Gander
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Susan Stewart
One Way
Matthea Harvey
The Blackest Black Forest
John Yau
Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers
The Homeless Economist
Remainders
Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Belles Images
Seth Colter Walls
Ancestors
Life and Times of a Libertine
Christopher Lasch
The Baffler No. 20 Reviews
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This is my first issue of The Baffler and I'm smitten. The Thomas Frank essay alone makes this worth getting, but I am 120 pages in and there have been no missteps. Let it suffice to say that, reading this, I felt my heart stir in a way that I had forgotten possible... a little flutter of rekindled fisticuffs, or some such stirring.
