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June 16, 2014

Laura Frost on Bloomsday, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace and the Pleasures of Unpleasure

“The modernist legacy, its essential ambivalence, continues, and let us hope that it does, for it signals not only the continuing problem with pleasure but also pleasure’s continuing potency.”—Laura Frost In honor of Bloomsday, we offer an excerpt from the...

September 25, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 2 — Laura Frost

This is second part of Laura Frost’s essay “Of Modernism and Muscle Cars” (you can read part 1 here). Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents “Modern literature should be commemorated in all...

July 22, 2013

Laura Frost Names the 10 Best Modernist Novels in English

Publishers Weekly recently asked Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents to name The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English). For the more ambitious readers the list provides a kind of alternate beach-reading list. Frost...

July 1, 2013

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix

Read an article by Laura Frost in which she discusses the crucial importance of the appendix to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

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Tag: The Problem with Pleasure

Laura Frost on Bloomsday, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace and the Pleasures of Unpleasure

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 2 — Laura Frost

Laura Frost Names the 10 Best Modernist Novels in English

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix