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1995 |
Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse
Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse
is a collection of outrageously funny, poignant and insightful no-holds-barred
fictions from a writer who characterizes them as,"stories about and from
women driven mad by dysfunctional relationships." And yet, the stories
are more than installations in the current soap-opera of gender wars.
They peel the armor off of the souls of men and women facing the millennium
and attendant apocalyptic madness. Like all fiction written during times
of universal insanity, these stories are not mad diaries. These "furious
fictions" are intensely sane and personal, and they leave the reader with
a sense of restored perspective and good humor. They appeal to readers
who are interested in gender issues, women's studies, experimental fiction
and cultural criticism. Selections from the book have been awarded a Gertrude
Stein Award for Innovative Writing. A critically-commended video based
on a chapter from the book, which features the author and her voice ,
is also available. William S. Burroughs "Susan Smith Nash's book Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse is very interesting. It is certainly a new approach to an area of writing. . . can I call it fiction(?). You cannot read this book without paying attention. . .it demands attention...demands a double-take. Susan Smith Nash deserves such attention. She has created an up-to-the-minute post-AIDS statement." "Insistently parochial, the voice in this book is Oklahoma unalloyed. The apocalypse arrived early here, on television, and thi fertile, lyrical, creepy, ovidian book is its detonating antiphon. Remarkable." --Diane Middlebrook "Susan Smith Nash is a reporter commissioned by the muses, a kind of higher intensity poet-version of Christiane Amanpour, reporting live from all the intimate and mysterious combat zone that fill our world with terror." --Robert Kelly "The works of Susan smith Nash are fireworks, with much more than flash. They are bold, funny, and brilliant, illuminating corners of the literary landscape that have been dark for a long time." --Beth Joselow |
