The Baffler No. 20

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Baffling the consensus since 1988, this journal seeks to debunk the ideology of the free market and to drive public discourse in literate and humane directions. Issues contain thundering anti-business salvos from the sharpest minds, as well as poetry, literature, and satirical art.

Contributions for The Baffler No. 20 include Thomas Frank on creative-class visions of vibrancy, Steve Almond on the postideological pantomiming of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Eugenia Williamson on the narrative conventions of NPR's This American Life, Matt Hinton on the big bucks in the world of college sports, and Jim Newell on the fraudster Adam Wheeler, who faked his way into Harvard.

Contents:

The Head Office

This Cradle Won’t Rock
John Summers

Salvos

Dead End on Shakin’ Street
Thomas Frank

Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics
Jed Perl

The Joke’s on You: Presenting ... The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Steve Almond

Sit-Cons: Class on TV
Heather Havrilesky

Oh, the Pathos! Presenting ... This American Life
Eugenia Williamson

Accountants for Taste: The Pew Charitable Trusts
David D’Arcy

The Dollar Debauch

Dilemmas of the Rentier Class
Chris Lehmann

Into the Infinite

The Threshold of Joy
Kim Phillips-Fein

Notes & Quotes

The Head Office
Kurt Tucholsky

Daniel’s Dictionary
Daniel Aaron

Maze of Doom
Tod Mesirow

A Bad Day in Brooklyn
Emma Garman

Studies in Total Depravity

Party of None: Barack Obama’s annoying journey to the center of belonging
Chris Bray

Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard
Jim Newell

Billionaire Ball: Epitaph for the student-athlete
Matt Hinton

Stories

Lancelot Gomes
Manohar Shetty

Mr. Secondhand
Manohar Shetty

Bhutas
Saskya Jain

Memoir

Delusional Parasitosis and Me
Will Boisvert

Poems

Faulty Logic
Alan Gilbert

Kingdom and Kingdom 2
Rae Armantrout

The Back Country
Geoffrey O’Brien

Tranche I and Tranche II
Joshua Clover

Projecting Love
Forrest Gander

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Susan Stewart

One Way
Matthea Harvey

The Blackest Black Forest
John Yau

Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers
The Homeless Economist

Remainders

Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Belles Images
Seth Colter Walls

Ancestors

Life and Times of a Libertine
Christopher Lasch

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: MIT Press

Release: July 12, 2012

The Baffler No. 20

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This is my first issue of The Baffler and I'm smitten. The Thomas Frank essay alone makes this worth getting, but I am 120 pages in and there have been no missteps. Let it suffice to say that, reading this, I felt my heart stir in a way that I had forgotten possible... a little flutter of rekindled fisticuffs, or some such stirring.

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This is my first issue of The Baffler and I'm smitten. The Thomas Frank essay alone makes this worth getting, but I am 120 pages in and there have been no missteps. Let it suffice to say that, reading this, I felt my heart stir in a way that I had forgotten possible... a little flutter of rekindled fisticuffs, or some such stirring.

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