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Induced Coma
A semi-sequel to the visionary Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word Stories once again features Harold Jaffe writing to the Nth power, taking as his subject no less than the benighted globe. Including published mainstream narratives and “news” articles from the US and abroad, the collection covers an extraordinary range of subjects—activist art, global warming, revolution, the entertainment industry, and the freakishly banal happenings of our day-to-day lives—all of which the author deconstructs to expose their ideological subtexts in uncanny ways. Satirical, critical, tragic and ruminative, Jaffe works every register masterfully. Induced Coma is a singular tour de force composed by one of the most innovative writers of our generation.
170 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 2014
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About the author
Harold Jaffe
88 books29 followersHarold Jaffe is the author of 22 books, including nine fiction collections, one nonfiction collection, and three novels.
Jaffe's fiction has appeared in such journals as The Mississippi Review, City Lights Review, The Paris Review, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, Chicago Review, Chelsea, Fiction, Central Park, Witness, Black Ice, Minnesota Review, Boundary 2, ACM, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Two Girls' Review, and New Novel Review. His stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize, Best American Stories, Best of American Humor, Storming the Reality Studio, American Made, Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology, Bateria and Am Lit (Germany), Borderlands (Mexico), Praz (Italy), Positive (Japan), and elsewhere.
His novels and stories have been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.
Harold Jaffe has won two NEA grants in fiction, a New York CAPS grant, a California Arts Council fellowship in fiction, and a San Diego fellowship (COMBO) in fiction.
Jaffe teaches literature at San Diego State University and is editor of Fiction International.
Jaffe's fiction has appeared in such journals as The Mississippi Review, City Lights Review, The Paris Review, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, Chicago Review, Chelsea, Fiction, Central Park, Witness, Black Ice, Minnesota Review, Boundary 2, ACM, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Two Girls' Review, and New Novel Review. His stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize, Best American Stories, Best of American Humor, Storming the Reality Studio, American Made, Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology, Bateria and Am Lit (Germany), Borderlands (Mexico), Praz (Italy), Positive (Japan), and elsewhere.
His novels and stories have been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.
Harold Jaffe has won two NEA grants in fiction, a New York CAPS grant, a California Arts Council fellowship in fiction, and a San Diego fellowship (COMBO) in fiction.
Jaffe teaches literature at San Diego State University and is editor of Fiction International.
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March 21, 2017
Boiled down, and what every writer tries to accomplish: A vivid world right there in front of you, so it's indisputable, and simply true.
From hysterically-funny to wrenchingly-sad and beyond-bizarre, Jaffe's fictions (also sourced in the endpapers when they come from Real News Items) points us towards a new method for parsing at the Twitter-length (or not much more) World We Live in Now.
Bite size! And worth your time.
For on the razor's edge, blink-and-you-missed-it fiction, it's time & energies well spent.
From hysterically-funny to wrenchingly-sad and beyond-bizarre, Jaffe's fictions (also sourced in the endpapers when they come from Real News Items) points us towards a new method for parsing at the Twitter-length (or not much more) World We Live in Now.
Bite size! And worth your time.
For on the razor's edge, blink-and-you-missed-it fiction, it's time & energies well spent.
July 26, 2014
A surreal twist on news around the world. Some of these short news pieces are weird and disturbing at times.
Jaffe takes Doctor amputating the wrong limbs, A pet girl culture, and Gluteoplasty and gives stories that could happen in your neighborhood. Or maybe it did with some of the highlighted parts from these weird news trips.
Some of the disturbing pieces such as; Her Mangled, Machete, Severed, Cucumber Coffin and Grits. Will have give you chills and you'll say "ahhh man"
Kinda reminds me of Alex Boese's work but his work being true facts. Harold Jaffe does an Induced Coma with only 50 to 100 weird shorts. Check it out. The rest of his docufictions are on my reading list.
Jaffe takes Doctor amputating the wrong limbs, A pet girl culture, and Gluteoplasty and gives stories that could happen in your neighborhood. Or maybe it did with some of the highlighted parts from these weird news trips.
Some of the disturbing pieces such as; Her Mangled, Machete, Severed, Cucumber Coffin and Grits. Will have give you chills and you'll say "ahhh man"
Kinda reminds me of Alex Boese's work but his work being true facts. Harold Jaffe does an Induced Coma with only 50 to 100 weird shorts. Check it out. The rest of his docufictions are on my reading list.
January 20, 2019
Garbage
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