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cityCityCITY: Jack Kerouac's Science Fiction

by Stuart Cormie

4 December 2006

Ultimately, cityCityCITY serves to emphasize Kerouac's oft-expressed view of his own society as a rampant machine, driven by a military-industrial complex, in which people exist merely to power the machine in return for the consumption of its output.

Interview: Julie Phillips

by Matthew Cheney

20 November 2006

The periods that got more emphasis were the ones for which I had more material. It worked backward from the way you might expect: if I had really interesting or revealing letters or journal entries for a particular period, then I wrote a chapter around them.

Taming the Beast—or Not: Night Journeys with Weyland and Hannibal

by Margaret L. Carter

30 October 2006

Lecter, on the other hand, is one of the human monsters against whom the vampire [Weyland] is judged. In playing Beauty to Lecter's Beast, Clarice becomes complicit in his crimes.

Interview: Chuck Palahniuk

by Jeff Sartain

16 October 2006

"A horror novel, as a social convention, is allowed to end in a dark way and to go to much darker places. It's sort of like labeling it right from the get go: 'This is not going to end well.'"

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