Mark Dery, Author Grove/Atlantic $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1580-5
Freelance cultural critic Dery takes readers on a strange, unsettling, often provocative tour through fringe computer subcultures. We meet cyber-hippies and ``technopagans'' who use the personal computer in New Age mystical rituals via echomail, a...
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Mark Dery, Author Grove/Atlantic $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1640-6
Centering his critique of the contemporary pop cultural landscape around the title image, borrowed from a sobriquet once applied to Coney Island, Dery sees ""a giddy whirl of euphoric horror where cartoon and nightmare melt into one."" He can be an...
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Mark Dery, foreword by Bruce Sterling. Univ. of Minnesota, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8166-7773-3
In this new collection of essays, Cultural critic Dery (The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium) pokes fun at American popular culture and shines light on subjects often considered taboo. Exploring music, masculinity, and media, Dery takes on subjects as...
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Mark Dery. Little, Brown, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-18854-8
Avant-garde writer and artist Edward Gorey comes across as almost odder, if less adventurous, than his characters in this atmospheric biography. Gorey, a native Chicagoan and an Anglophile, innovated by looking back to vintage British illustrations,
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