Norman Spinrad At Large

                    THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL                              by Norman Spinrad                 (a presidential platform for a  non-existent campaign)          “Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before.”                                                        --Dwight Eisenhower  “They wrote the biggest rubber check in history and passed it off on themselves.                                                          ---Norman Spinrad,                                                             GREENHOUSE SUMMER What supposedly began in 2008 and was or still is so-called “Great Recession” was or still is not primarily a recession nor did it begin with the fiscal crash of 2008.  One might trace it back to the post-World War II reaction to the New Deal, one might trace it back to the invention of the steam engine and the resultant Industrial Revolution, but to arbitrarily bring the beginning of what is now being called “The New Normal

LARB GET OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS REVIEWS ESSAYS INTERVIEWS ABOUT LARB MEMBERSHIP BOOK CLUB PRINT JOURNAL JOBS AT LARB BLOG AUTHORS CONTRIBUTORS GENRES TAGGED AUTHORS Norman Spinrad TAGGED BOOKS The Void Captain's Tale ,  Bug Jack Barron , The Iron Dream ,  Deus X ,  The Men in the Jungle DIRECT LINK to IRON AND CHROMIUM Iron and Chromium: Five Novels by Norman Spinrad  by  Alvaro Zinos-Amaro March 10th, 2014 RESET - + NORMAN SPINRAD'S WORK has, over the last fifty years, elicited responses that range from “depraved, cynical, utterly repulsive” (Donald Wollheim) to “delightfully bonkers” (Thomas M. Disch) and “extraordinary” (Ursula Le Guin). Perhaps my favorite characterization of Spinrad is by Isaac Asimov, who, in somewhat of an understatement, observed that he “constantly displays the courage to be different.” I’d like to illustrate this career-defining search for i