- Cedar Crest College, Creative Writing Masters Degree Program, Department Memberadd
- Julian Barnes, Historiographic Metafiction, Autobiography and life writing studies, Dmitri Shostakovich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, and 14 moreBiographical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Hybrid writing, Regionalism, Cormac McCarthy, Literary fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Lyric Essay, Experimental fiction, Metafiction, History of the Book, Print Culture, Book History and the History of Reading, Editing (Creative Writing), and Independent Publishingedit
- Author, editor, teacher, and frequent public speaker on books & literary culture. Founder/publisher, Atelier26 Books. Contributing editor, Moss literary journal. 8 published boo... moreAuthor, editor, teacher, and frequent public speaker on books & literary culture. Founder/publisher, Atelier26 Books. Contributing editor, Moss literary journal. 8 published books (fiction & nonfiction). Perpetua's Kin, a novel, coming fall 2018. Short fiction, nonfiction, and critical writing in many publications including The Kenyon Review, American Book Review, The Oregonian, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Lit Hub, Epoch, Boulevard, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Catamaran, Fiction Writers Review, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. www.MAllenCunningham.comedit
An essay by M. Allen Cunningham considering Cormac McCarthy's entire corpus and the trajectory of his reputation. First published in Poets & Writers Magazine, September/October 2007.
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Cultural criticism / Hybrid Essay by M. Allen Cunningham in the form of an illustrated glossary. Presents a brief and sometimes personal survey of the culture of spectacle from the Great Exposition of 1900 to Facebook and Google Glass.... more
Cultural criticism / Hybrid Essay by M. Allen Cunningham in the form of an illustrated glossary. Presents a brief and sometimes personal survey of the culture of spectacle from the Great Exposition of 1900 to Facebook and Google Glass. Published in Oregon Humanities Magazine, spring 2013.
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Introduction by M. Allen Cunningham to the book FUNNY-ASS THOREAU (Atelier26 Books, 2016). Explores the neglected subject of Henry David Thoreau's sense of humor. This essay appeared on Lit Hub, November 2016.
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"Technology & Ideology: Why Our Tools Are Never Neutral" by M. Allen Cunningham. Examines, through illustrated argument and historical anecdote, the relationships between technology, ideology, advertising, and current reading habits. This... more
"Technology & Ideology: Why Our Tools Are Never Neutral" by M. Allen Cunningham. Examines, through illustrated argument and historical anecdote, the relationships between technology, ideology, advertising, and current reading habits. This is an excerpt from Cunningham's book of cultural criticism THE FLICKERING PAGE: THE READING EXPERIENCE IN DIGITAL TIMES, illustrated by Nathan Shields (Atelier26 Books, 2014).