Fiction and satire for social change, commentary on art and social change. Related articles of various value.
Initial post – the namesake satire of this weblog, ”A Practical Policy“ - an update of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.”
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The Vassals Handbook (2009) in progress, excerpt
Master of Fine Arts (2007) PDF book compilation, excerpt
Texas MFA (2005) PDF book, excerpt
Homefront (2003) PDF book, excerpt – abridged paper version
Youthtopia (1999) PDF book, excerpt – online excerpts
Ganoga (1998) PDF book, excerpt
Life in These Corporate Estates of America (1990s-2008) PDF book
CRITIQUES
Fiction Gutted: The Establishment and the Novel (2008) PDF book – additional commentary
The Future of Imaginative Writing: The Novel and Social Change (2004) PDF book
The Fate of Plutocracy (2003) essay
Fiction and Social Change: Some Limits of DeLillo, Pynchon… (1992) essay
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Engaged Criticism Excerpts – Editor (2004) PDF book; additional excerpts – bibliography
Liberation Lit — Coeditor (2008) forthcoming book
These eleven books (and two essays) are unpublished in paper apart from a few excerpts and some limited self and collective publishing.
Tony Christini is cofounder and coeditor of Mainstay Press and Liberation Lit journal, weblog A Practical Policy. His fiction, poetry, criticism have appeared: (print) The Texas Observer, The South Carolina Review, The South Dakota Review, Soundings East, and elsewhere; (online) Pemmican, ZNet, Counterpunch…. Other works (below) and at Socialit.
contact: mainstay1 at gmail dot com or tcchristini at yahoo dot com
