Research Catalog

Title

The Devil never sleeps : and other essays / Andrei Codrescu.

Author

Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

vii, 244 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Thankfully for us, he hasn't. In The Devil Never Sleeps, one of America's shrewdest social critics sets out to uncover the Devil's most modern and insidiously banal incarnations. Once easily recognizable by his horns, tail, and propensity for plague, today's Devil has become embedded in every fiber of our culture. Discussing everything from rock 'n' roll to William Burroughs to New Orleans bars to the Demon of Prosperity, Codrescu mockingly unmasks Old Nick as the opportunistic technocrat he really is.
• Embracing cell phones, cable access, and cyberspace, the ubiquitous Devil of secular culture embodies the true evil facing us today - banality."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• The Devil Never Sleeps -- The Revelation of St. John -- Modern Attitudes and Masques -- Approaches to the Soul -- Elvis 20/20: Concluding Remarks at the Third International Elvis Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, 1997 -- The Millennium Pics -- Human Remedies Against the Devil -- Another Autumn -- Allen Ginsberg -- Hello, Cosmos! -- Week of the Dead -- The Manners of the Unspeakable -- How Do You Say Goodbye to the 20th Century? -- A Russian Poet at the Seashore -- San Francisco's Poet Laureate -- Poetic Terrorism -- Solution: Enivrez-Vous: The Bars of New Orleans or with Kerri McCaffety in the Realm of Timelessness -- Bad Childhoods -- Innocence Lost under Capitalism! -- The Unabomber in School -- The Art of Escape -- The Pleasures of Art -- Not So Fruit: Three Paintings by Amy Weiskopf -- The Heracliteans: Early Devils -- Romania: The Varkolak -- Return to Romania: Notes of a Prodigal Son -- The Berlin Mall -- Prague (cont.) -- A Simple Heart -- How We Got to Kosovo --
• Exiles, All -- Adding Life, Erasing the Record -- Against Synchronicity -- Collecting -- The Strangeness of Languages -- Animals: The Thin Furry Line between Us and the Devil -- Walking Bear -- Grandfatherhood -- Love in the Nineties -- The Blessed Waters of Sleep -- Professional Hazards -- Tolerance, Intolerance, Europe & America -- The Anxious Middle Class -- The Angels in the Closet -- The Devil's Most Insidious Aspect: Amnesia -- The Hidden History of Chicago -- Shell Games -- Prosperity and the Devil -- Houses and Shops -- From American Life -- Fried Rice -- Marcel Duchamp Would've Loved Wal-Mart -- Mystery of the Market -- From Subversion to Whimsy -- Heat and the School for Crawling -- Ice -- Hint of Fall -- Air Travel and the Advance of Demonism -- Berkeley -- Ratio of Derriere versus Frontal -- Beauty & Safety -- Virtuality Takes Command -- The V-Chip -- AOL Addict Tells All -- The Mouse with Glowing Ears -- Tech-Withdrawal Anxiety.

ISBN

0312202946

LCCN

99055765

OCLC

• 42772191
• ocm42772191
• SCSB-3892283

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries