Title: After Postmodernism Comes...?
Review: How does a young writer, trained under the big circus tents of postmodernism--but only AFTER postmodernism was already declared dead and buried--find a form and style and voice in the mushy contemporary American world of post postmodernism? HALLS OF FAME is one example. If one tendency of postmodern texts is that they promise coherence but then, in the end, intentionally fail to deliver on that promise, what John D'Agata does is not promise anything in his essays, but deliver anyway everything we could have hoped for in an essay. If you love essays and want to know what's happening right now in the form, this is a wonderful mix of the traditional and alternative in nonfiction.
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