Harold Jaffe

• Jan-1979
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• Jan-1979
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from Mole's Pity: Farther east begins the familiar grief. Walking up 4th Street into the Lower East Side. Shards of history pricking the devastation. The old Jews gone. Or going. Uprooted Puerto-Ricans in their dolorous tenement flats, or leaning ove...

• Jan-1982
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Twenty intersecting tales of estranged love, political oppression and the human comedy. In "Mourning Crazy Horse," the Sioux chief's betrayal and final passion are counterpointed with a contemporary American's journey across the United States. "Under...

• Jun-1990
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Fiction. Eros collides with Anti-Eros in these menacingly comic fictions in which physical love and desire are policed by a high-tech, militarist, media manipulated society. The calculated silences and disinformation surrounding the AIDS epidemic, th...

• Oct-1991
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• Jul-1995
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• Sep-1995
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• Jun-1999
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With his unerring ear for dialogue, transgressive high style, deadpan comedy, and narrative velocity, Harold Jaffe elaborates his harsh millenarian prophecy while it in a satire as fierce as that of Swift or Rabelais. At the same time, Jaffe seeks, a...

• Feb-2002
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Each of the fifteen fictions in False Positive originated as a nationally known newspaper story, which Harold Jaffe has "treated" to bring to its prosaic surface a maniacal subtext. The original stories cover the familiar American postmodern grotesqu...

• Oct-2003
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If you enjoy the show Mind Hunter—

Taking as his text Georges Bataille’s insight that “only at the extremes is there freedom,” critically acclaimed “guerrilla writer” Harold Jaffe documents Bataille&rsquo...

• Jun-2005
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As in Harold Jaffe's two previous "docufiction" collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then "treats" his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. That ambigui...

• Jan-2006
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Cultural Writing. Essays. For some 25 years, Harold Jaffe's name has been synonymous with confrontational innovative fiction with a subversive edge. BEYOND THE TECHNO-CAVE collects the author's recent creative nonfiction, including insights on art, w...

• May-2008
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Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further. Jaffe's "docufictional" novel based on the Manson murders proves that, like Manson's coyote totem, the myths around him...

• Feb-2010
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These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all wh...

• Jul-2010
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The 60 entries that constitute Paris 60 were recorded during Harold Jaffe's Spring 2008 Paris visit to greet the translation into French of one of his earlier volumes. Based loosely on Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, 1869, Paris 60 is both factual and fic...

• Feb-2012
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Fiction. Each of Harold Jaffe's 13 docufictions features a well-known personage who either died of an overdose or was invested in "drugs" to the extent that they contributed to his/her death. Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday, Bela Lugosi, Aldous Huxley...

• Jul-2013
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Volume 6 of New Orleans Review Summer 2013 issueHarold Jaffe is the author of 20 volumes of fiction, docufiction, essays, and indeterminate texts, including Revolutionary Brain; Paris 60; Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories; 15 Serial Killers; and Stra...

• Jan-2014
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Fiction. "Jaffe is an outrigger, sailing the deeply troubled waters of our social and sexual psyches, risking much, but, with courage and persistence, staying afloat and returning to tell the tale, which in this instance is his remarkable Othello Blu...

• Aug-2014
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Known for his unique style of "docufiction" and "literary terrorism," Harold Jaffe has made a career out of exposing the latent realities embedded in our media-saturated consciousness. In INDUCED COMA, he furthers the project initiated in ANTI-TWITTE...

• Dec-2015
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DEATH CAFE resumes and refines Harold Jaffe's ongoing anatomy of the world in pain. Featuring 19 innovative fictions and docufictions set in Africa, Europe, China, India, the Middle East, and the benighted US, the collection addresses issues of globa...

• Dec-2016
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Harold Jaffe is a master of the disembodied voice. These fictions --transgressive, political, dryly comic-are grounded in an ancient tradition, that of the speech of the storyteller. Interlocutors talk as if out of dark caves, and the result is a mar...

• Apr-2017
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Thirty-five years ago, American author Harold Jaffe traveled throughout India. The place that made the strongest impression on him was the holy Hindu city of Varanasi (also known as Benares or Kashi). In 2015, he returned to Varanasi for six month...

• May-2019
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Fiction. PORN-ANTI-PORN displays the body in pain & passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely funny. PORN-ANTI-PORN is, finally, a brilliantly nuanced...

• Feb-2021
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Harold Jaffe is well-known for his docufiction, which is at once personal and detached, serious and satirical, familiar and esoteric. He has been recognized for pinpointing and even aestheticizing the media pathology that informs and increasingly det...

• Aug-2023
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How much dexterity does a writer need to write a story in a single sentence? In their virtuosic collection, brevity masters Harold Jaffe and Tom Whalen, drawing from a host of injustices currently at play on our teetering earth, meet this challenge w...

• Dec-2023
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Harold Jaffe is a master of the disembodied voice. These fictions-transgressive, political, dryly comic-are grounded in an ancient tradition, that of the speech of the storyteller. Interlocutors talk as if out of dark caves, and the result is a marve...