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Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book (Vol. 1) and the founding editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.

Geddes' satires and critical essays in The Satirist have been widely cited in books and academic journals and assigned in Literature courses in the US and countries abroad. He lives in Amsterdam.

U.S. Declares Plastic a Major Food Group, Part of a Balanced Diet

By Dan Geddes on April 19, 2018
U.S. Declares Plastic a Major Food Group, Part of a Balanced Diet

By Dan Geddes

WASHINGTON – In a move described as “accepting reality” the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared plastic to be “a major food group.”

US FDA spokesperson Carl Manson stated: “We admit that trace amounts of plastic leak into many food products. Significant amounts of plastic appear in other food products, such as fish. However, top scientists all agree that there is nothing wrong with ingesting plastics, as has been proven by generations of long-term studies on the population since the 1960s.”

Thomas Pynchon

By Dan Geddes on February 17, 2018
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is one of the most influential and critically revered American novelists of his time. Pynchon’s verbal virtuosity, multi-dimensional erudition, and anarchic sense of…

Inherent Vice

By Dan Geddes on April 21, 2017
Inherent Vice

Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Review by Dan Geddes 21 April 2017 Inherent Vice (2014) is a long, quirky, uneven comedy; your enjoyment of…



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