Robert Appelbaum

Robert Appelbaum received his BA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is professor emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a fellow of the Swedish Research Council. Usually he writes about literary history and cultural theory, but he is the author as well of a work of creative non-fiction, Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (London: Zero 2014) as well as a handful of short stories.

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The world was in upheaval, and there was no going back. Or not in upheaval, exactly. There was no heaving and there was no certainty about an “up.” But every day it seemed that the world was being torn up, shredded, and discarded; crumbled up into little balls and tossed away; reduced to trash. But then again it was being remade, day by day, into something new.
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