Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1950

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Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe

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•   and as well, as the dividing membrane between modern and contemporary/postmodern literature/culture/theory is, much in the spirit of postmodern forms of destabilization, fluid and permeable.

•   and might lead you to useful web resources on film & film criticism.

For 20th/21st-century American poets, the Modern American Poetry site (above) is generally useful.   Many contemporary writers are also featured per audio and video on, among others, National Public Radio and YouTube. See ReelWeb for sites on film.

• Paul Auster, Man in the Dark (NPR),
• James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues, JB Teacher Resources, NYT Obit
• Amiri Baraka, The Duchman I, DM II
• John Barth, JB Information Center, NYT & JB, Scriptorium
• Saul Bellow, NYT Obits & Reviews
• Gwendolyn Brooks, GB I, GB II, GB III,
• Charles Bukowski, CB I, CB II, CB III, Barfly, Factotum (Sundance 2006)
• Robert Olen Butler, ROB on webdelsol.com (including online texts), ROB at Work, ROB Interview, Good Scent I, Good Scent II
• Raymond Carver, NYT Featured Author I, II
• Michael Chabon, "The Imaginary Jew" (The Nation), MC on Cormac McCarthy's The Road;
• Michael Crichton (NYT Obiturary)
• Don DeLillo, "The Power of History," Jeffrey MacIntyre on DD
• E. L. Doctorow, NYT Featured Author, ELD on Sweet Land Stories (NPR audio),  ELD on Bush, The March and the Historical Novel (review), ELD on The March (NPR audio), Brief Interview on The March, etc., NPR ELD Features, ELD on Homer & Langley (NPR audio), H&L (NYT), ELD on H&L, H&L (Diane Rehm)
          City of God:  Paul Tillich, Albert Einstein I, AE II, AE III, AE IV
• Ralph Ellison, RE I, Invisible Man, The RE Project/Ellison and Jazz, RE's Politics
• Frantz Fanon (novel by John Edgar Wideman, NYT)
• Raymond Federman, RF I, RF II, RF III, RF Interview I, RF Interview II, RFblogspot, NYT Obits & Reviews (not yet hyperlinked)
• William Gaddis, The Gaddis Annotations, 2005 International Gaddis Conference
• William Gibson, Cyberpunk, etc.,  Neuromancer and Bladerunner, Gibson & SciFi Resources,
  WG Interviews, Study Guides I, Neuromancer, Bladeruner, and SciFi Novels I, The Hollywood Afterlife of Phillip K. Dick (audio); F Jameson on Gibson; Irish Times Interview (2003); WP on Spook Country, etc.(audio)
• Allen Ginsberg, AG I; footnote to Howl; see Beat pages above
• Langston Hughes, LH Teacher Resource File, LH and his Favorite Music, LH II,  LH and the Harlem Renaissance
• John Irving, JI, JI and Charles Dickens (NPR audio), JR interview I, JR interview II (Twisted River)
• Jack Kerouac,  On The Road; On the Road & Jazz; "Spontaneous Prose,"  see Beat pages and Look Back at the Typewriter above
• Tony Kushner, Angels in America I, AA II, HBO AA
• Jhumpa Lahiri, South Asian's Women NETwork, Study Guide & Interview, Maladies as Short Story Cycle,  Food in Maladies, Unaccustomed Earth,
• Norman Mailer, NM I, II, III, IV, V, "The White Negro" I, II, NM-Interview, Mailerspeak,  NYT-Obit, II
• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian I, CM interview/The Road, The Road (essay by Michael Chabon for NYRB), The Road,film I
• Arthur Miller, AM Society Website, AM American Masters, Synopses of Major Works, Descriptive Chronology of Plays, "Why I Wrote The Crucible?", None Without Sin (PBS 2003), AM NYT Obits & Reviews
• Marianne Moore, MAP-page on MM
• Toni Morrison, NPR-interview/resource page, TM on Beloved, TM on Paradise, My Mercy I, II
• Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
• Tim O'Brien, TOB Homepage, TOB Interivew, Writing Vietnam, TOB, My Lai, and America
• Flannery O'Connor, A Life (2009)
• Tillie (Lerner) Olsen, MAP-page on TO, Yonnondio, TO Interviews, "I Stand Here"
• Sylvia Plath, MAP-on SP, Voices& Visions, The Bell Jar I, The Bell Jar II, SP-DE, Plath & Father
• Jackson Pollock, JP at the NGA, JP in Guggenheim, JP Paintings
• Richard Powers, Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Another Brief Interview (G 2.2), G 2.2: Probing the Posthuman,  Cognitive Science Dictionary, Gerald Edelman & Neural Darwinism (NPG Interview),  NYTBR-The Echo Maker, EM-Roundtable, EM Brief Interview, New Yorker on RP ,
• Ayn Rand, I,  II
• Phillip Roth,  NY-Times Featured Author, PR Society,   PR at The Guardian, A Plot Against America (Review), I Married a Communist (Review), PR on Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint (NPR audio), Everyman (AS Byatt review), PR on Everyman, PR on Exit Ghost/Nathan Zuckerman (NPR audio), Indignation (NYT), Plot Against America (NPR, audio)
• Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalism, HST on R Nixon, HST NYT Obit & Reviews
• William Styron, NYT Obit & Reviews, The Confessions 40 Years After
• John Updike, NYT-Obit & Links, NYT-Topic, NPR Obit & Links, Remembering John Updike, Rabbit Run (Diane Rehm)
• Kurt Vonnegut, The Vonnegut Veb, Slaughterhouse 5 (NPR Audio discussion), NYT-Obit, Look at the Birdie
• Andy Warhol,  The Warhol, W Foundation, AW
• Wendy Wasserstein, NY-Times Obituary, Appreciation, and Reviews
• August Wilson, AW at Dartmouth, AW: Writing the Blues, etc.,  NPR AW site (audio)
• Richard Wright, The RW Connection, Black Boy
  
        
  
  
   
                                                                                                               
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