Introduction: Reading Trump
Stephen Hock
Part I: The Cultural Prehistory of President Trump
Chapter One: A Truly “Free” Psychopathology: Notes on Trumpspace
David Markus
Chapter Two: Trump as “Daddy”: American Psycho and Hero Worship in the Neoliberal Era
Caitlin R. Duffy
Chapter Three: Nation Surface Mirror Psycho: A Fantasy of Coherence
Clinton J. Craig
Chapter Four: “Is That Donald Trump’s Car?”: On the Trail of the Original American Psycho
William Magrino
Chapter Five: Memorializing the Future of Donald Trump in Amy Waldman’s The Submission
Stephen Hock
Chapter Six: The Deep Web of Conspiracies: Under the Shadow of Trump Tower in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
Joseph M. Conte
Chapter Seven: From Faithful Readers to Fake News: Thomas Pynchon, Trump, and the Return of the Postmodern
William G. Welty
Chapter Eight: Trump Traces: Examining Donald Trump’s Film and Television Cameos (1990–2004)
Ashleigh Hardin
Chapter Nine: Entitlement and Wealth: The Whiteness of Donald Trump
Peter Kragh Jensen
Chapter Ten: Trump for Kids: Can You Tell Us How to Get a Grump off Sesame Street?
Susan Gilmore
Part II: Trumpocalypse Now
Chapter Eleven: Howard Jacobson’s Pussy and the Literary Hot Take
Tim Lanzendörfer
Chapter Twelve: “Terminal Stupidity”: Graft Zeppelin and Trump Sky Alpha
Bruce Krajewski
Chapter Thirteen: Our Cartoon President and the Politics of Laughter
Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale
Chapter Fourteen: “Nobody Wants to See That Fuckhead”: Ball Culture and Donald Trump in FX’s Pose
Meredith James
Chapter Fifteen: Exhausting the Present: Twitter, Trump, and Engagement Fatigue in Olivia Laing’s Crudo
Shannon Finck
Chapter Sixteen: “Be a Little Genrequeer”: Rushdie’s The Golden House in the Age of Post-Truth
Jaclyn Partyka