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Lee Konstantinou is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Cool Characters is a remarkably thorough work of literary scholarship, most valuable for how it unravels the political thinking of canonical American writers (Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer), as well as some celebrated contemporary writers.
*Dissent*

A crisply intelligent and very readable study of irony’s literary trajectory.
*Literary Hub*

Excellent, well-read and well-written…[An] insightful, provocative and necessary book in literary studies.
*Times Higher Education*

Cool Characters is a major work of criticism that promises to transform the study of post–World War II American literature. It will be of enormous interest to graduate students and professors in the field, as well as to anyone interested in the state of contemporary literature.
*Michael Clune, author of White Out*

Lee Konstantinou’s Cool Characters is the best study of post-1945 fiction that I have read since Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, and it will no doubt be as influential.
*Andrew Hoberek, author of The Twilight of the Middle Class*

Konstantinou tells the story of ‘how postmodernism became historical’ with some of the verve of a novelist, but without sacrificing any of the virtues we expect to find in the work of a top-notch cultural critic. It is, in the most surprising way, a character-driven story, and one that sets out to answer a key question about our now routinely ironic culture: how might we take it and ourselves seriously again?
*Mark McGurl, author of The Program Era*

An impressive breadth of scholarship…Each chapter offers new insights…Each of the book’s characterological types exemplifies a style of engagement with political and economic realities; by approaching recent American fiction in such a novel way, Konstantinou contributes not only to literary studies but to our ongoing discussion of those realities as well.
*Times Literary Supplement*

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