Degenerative Prose is outlaw writing with a terrorist heart. The missives published here represent an explosive mix of avant-pop fiction, e-mail viruses, anti-aesthetic manifestoes, dissident comix, aberrant essays, eloquent rants, mock interviews, and phony contributor notes. An interventionist attack on the banality of mainstream culture, Degenerative Prose tears down the reign of genre and dares the reader to use these previously unpublished narrative strategies to deconstruct all the digital hype permeating the sonic landscape. A witches' brew of cult-writing stirs within...

Using verite techniques like tape recording and "sampling, " Mosaic Man retells the life of one Ron Sukenick a la Henry Miller as he simultaneously stitches together his identity as a writer and a Jew. Spanning a range from rough sex to quasi-theological speculation, from moral injunction to liberating candor, the book is a mosaic of episodes making the case that in the postmodern world the parts are the whole. Like Sukenick's influential first novel, UP, Mosaic Man is a major work that continues his lifelong preoccupation with the quest for truth through fiction.