Catapult apr 2015 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FEATURING WORK FROM LYDIA DAVIS, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, JAMAICA KINCAID, ANNE LAMOTT, GEORGE SAUNDERS, AND MANY MOREAn anthology-manifesto proving that in our mortal, godless, digital age, the shortest art hits hardestfeaturing 40 masters of the mini-essay and flash fiction who make every word countLife Is Short - Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.1. We are mortal beings.2. There is no god.3. We live in a digital culture.4. Art is related to the body and to the culture.5. Art should reflect these things.6. Brevity rules.The book's 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteenyear ride through the heart of the counterculturea journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the selfimposed poverty of the West Coast communal movement known as The Diggers. With this innovative collective of artistanarchists who had assumed as their task nothing less than the recreation of the nation's political and social soul, Coyote and his companions soon became power players.In prose both graphic and unsentimental, Coyote reveals the corrosive side of love that was once called 'free'; the anxieties and occasional terrors of latenight, drugfueled visits of biker gangs looking to party; and his own quest for the next high. His road through revolution brought him to adulthood and to his major role as a political strategist: from radical communard to the chairman of the California Arts Council, from a street theater apprentice to a motionpicture star.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He's a young man lost - in his finances, in his family - and stuck deep within the fast-settling muck of a dwindling rural Missouri town that has, in every way, given up hope. The hand that reaches down, lifts him up, and leads him forward belongs to a fiercely charismatic patriarch named Jay Smalls, a man who exerts a kind of gravitational force-and breeds fierce purpose in those who find themselves caught in it. Un-rattled by the increasingly sinister racial undertones of Jay and his posse, and desperate to look forward and not down, for once in his life, Clyde hardly stumbles when the path he's being ushered down takes a dark and irrevocable turn.In this thrilling debut novel - equal parts satire and morality play - Harvkey shines a sharp light on the dark and radical underbelly of the floundering American Midwest. As he plunges us into the violent spiral of a desperate youth, he explores with unflinching acuity the ugly nature of hate, the untempered force of personality, and the sometimes horrific power of having someone believe in you.…