Author: Andrew Marzoni

Andrew Marzoni is a writer, critic, teacher, musician, and co-editor of TECHStyle. He has a MA in English & American Literature from New York University and a PhD in English from the University of Minnesota. His essays and criticism have appeared in ARTnews, Cinephile, The New York Observer, The Quarterly Conversation, Review 31, Music & Literature, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and other publications. He is currently writing a critical history of Semiotext(e), 1974-present.

The Office Hour, Chapter 3: “Contrarianism Mixed with Privilege”

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In this episode, Toby and I discuss the Ginkgo Tree in Skiles Courtyard at Georgia Tech (pictured above) before moving on to discuss nostalgia and the work of Marcel Proust, Gérard Genette, Walter Benjamin, and Jörg Zimmer, and once again deferring our conversation about John Cassavetes to a future podcast…. Continue reading

The Office Hour, Chapter 2: “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion”

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In this episode (named after a phrase borrowed from Paul Ricoeur), Toby and I talk to Anna Ioanes, Brittain Fellow and co-editor of TECHStyle, about her article “Shock and Consent in a Feminist Avant-Garde: Kathleen Hanna Reads Kathy Acker,” which appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in… Continue reading

Mapping Burroughs’s Junky

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While Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) is usually remembered as the quintessential American road novel, the slightly earlier debut novel of Kerouac’s friend and fellow Beat William S. Burroughs, Junky (1953), is equally expansive in its exploration of the North American continent. Kerouac’s roman à clef—first mapped by the… Continue reading