Modernity

Modernity by George V. Packard Much changed thanks to musical innovations like Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, scientific advances such as quantum mechanics, new artistic genres like surrealism and other fresh ways of thinking that came along in the early 20th century. Here is a collection of short satirical "interviews" with the great icons of the Modern Age. MODERNITY takes a backward look at some of the figures and concepts that made us the way we are: Schrödinger, Wigner, Duchamp, Pound, Einstein, Proust, Pollock, Stein, Rothko, Marx, Hawkins, Beckett, Schönberg, Wittgenstein, Freud, Joyce, Godel, Monk, Stravinsky, Cage, Kafka, Higgs. George V. Packard's fiction has appeared in Redbook, Family Circle, Cavalier, Texas Monthly, Paris Metro, Yankee and Sports Illustrated.

GEORGE V. PACKARD is an American author living on a small island off the southern coast of Ireland. He was born and brought up on the coast of Maine, attended Bowdoin College, Columbia University and the Officer's Candidate School at the Coast Guard Academy. His short fiction has appeared in Redbook, Family Circle, Cavalier, Texas Monthly, Paris Metro, Yankee and Sports Illustrated. He has also published two novels, this collection of satirical sketches, and a collection of short stories.