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still dreaming of a pretty autonomous version of the literary art,
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even though in his 1987 preface to Lost in the Funhouse--
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I don't know if any of you read it
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he says about these stories, which were published throughout the '60s:
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The high '60s,like the roaring '20s,
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was a time of more than usual ferment
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in American social, political, and artistic life.
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Our unpopular war in Vietnam, political assassinations,
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race riots, the hippie counterculture,
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pop art, mass poetry reading,street theater,
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vigorous avant-gardism in all the arts
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together with dire predictions not only of the death of the novel