Perverted in Neon

Perverted in Neon is collection of short fictions engaged with various facets of modern popular culture. In its stories, a washed-up rocker enlists the aid of pigeons to deliver messages to his estranged wife; a writer obsessed with finding out what “really” happened to Andy Kaufman is pushed into the fringes of his own life; a kid on restriction discovers a secret level to a video game that threatens to change the nature of his reality; a woman on Airbnb advertises her home—and her life—to potential house renters. The characters throughout this collection tread among the desperate and downtrodden, often seeing some faint impression of hope in the distance, something worth continuing to fight for. Perverted in Neon challenges traditional distinctions of literary genres, often incorporating elements of non-fictional pop culture into fictional worlds, and vice-versa. The stories throughout aim to interrogate some notion of emotional maturity, or lack thereof—characters who think they understand the world, but quickly realize that they understand only their most immediate desires.

Name thesis:degree_name

MFA

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Siebel, Patrick Alan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Vollmer, Matthew

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Falco, Edward C.
• Lavender-Smith, Evan

• pop culture
• stories
• absurd
• music
• video games
• formal experimentation
• hybrid forms
• performance art

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Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:15702

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/115397