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Eladatl
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Author : Sesshu Foster
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2021-04-06
Eladatl written by Sesshu Foster and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Fiction categories.
A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes. "Foster and Romo's 'real fake dream' of the future-past history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is a superb and loving phantasmagoria that gobbles up real histories for breakfast and spits out the seeds."—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles—some as large as one thousand feet long—was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history, replete with heroes, villains, and moments of astonishing derring-do and terrifying disaster. Written and presented as an “actual history of a fictional company,” this surrealist, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations, community interventions, and staged performances, ELADATL is a furiously hilarious send-up of academic histories, mainstream narratives, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum. "Poet Foster (Atomik Aztex) and artist Romo deliver a maddeningly accomplished inquiry into the secret history of East Los Angeles. . . . This is as much fun to read as it must have been to make."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "One of the wildest, most creative and deeply-cutting novels I’ve read in years, a genuine piece of newness in both content and form. To wade through this surreal narrative archeology is to experience, in the finest sense, literature as fever dream."—Omar El Akkad, author of American War: A Novel "Visionary, hilarious, anarchic, this assemblage of breakneck dialog, blisteringly brilliant film criticism, bureaucratic documents, revolutionary chatter, mass transit, and fake dreams of the secret police, is the counterfactual novel to beat all counterfactual novels."—Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha "Hilarious and prophetic and profound, truer than truth, and realer than all realities currently available for purchase, ELADATL is strong medicine against the erasures of history, a mega-vitamin for struggles yet to come. This book combats despair."—Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Atomik Aztex
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Author : Sesshu Foster
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2021-01-06
Atomik Aztex written by Sesshu Foster and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-06 with Fiction categories.
In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism reigns supreme. Aztecs armed with automatic weapons, totemic powers and blood sacrifice conquer and colonize 1940s Europe, as ghosts of the world wars emerge to haunt contemporary Los Angeles. Atomik Aztex is a hilarious read. A potent concoction, with influences from graphic novels, along with Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, the paranoia of Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs, and an outrageous cyber-Aztlán mix reminiscent of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Sesshu Foster is the author of the critically acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual.
World Ball Notebook
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Author : Sesshu Foster
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2008
World Ball Notebook written by Sesshu Foster and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poetry categories.
A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.
Desert Notebooks
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Author : Ben Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Desert Notebooks written by Ben Ehrenreich and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Nature categories.
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Asian American Literature In Transition 1996 2020 Volume 4
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Author : Betsy Huang
language : en
Publisher: Asian American Literature in T
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Asian American Literature In Transition 1996 2020 Volume 4 written by Betsy Huang and has been published by Asian American Literature in T this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
This volume examines the concerns - political, literary, and identity-based - of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.
Nochita
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Author : Dia Felix
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2013-09-18
Nochita written by Dia Felix and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-18 with Fiction categories.
A poetic, stylistically daring debut novel, by turns hallucinatory and darkly funny. Nochita's coming-of-age is tender, fierce, and unforgettable.
The Wrong End Of The Telescope
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Author : Rabih Alameddine
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-09-02
The Wrong End Of The Telescope written by Rabih Alameddine and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-02 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 2022 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Spectacular . . . Alameddine's irreverent prose evokes the old master storytellers from my own Middle Eastern home . . . deeply poignant' New York Times Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing this humanitarian crisis. 'Alameddine hits a distinctly contemporary note with this new book about refugees . . . it feels totally authentic' Sunday Times
Odyssey To The North
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Author : Mario Bencastro
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1998-06-30
Odyssey To The North written by Mario Bencastro and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-30 with Fiction categories.
A freedom fighter who fled El Salvador discovers that in the U.S. he is a second-class citizen in a racist country. The novel chronicles his dangerous journey across several borders, all the way to Washington and disillusion.
California In The Movies
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Author : Mick Lasalle
language : en
Publisher: Heyday Books
Release Date : 2021-05-04
California In The Movies written by Mick Lasalle and has been published by Heyday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Performing Arts categories.
An eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mythology of California than the movies. Fed by the film industry, the California dream is instantly recognizable to people everywhere yet remains evasive for nearly everyone, including Californians themselves. That paradox is the subject of longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle's first book in nine years. The opposite of a dry historical primer, California in the Movies is a freewheeling journey through several dozen big-screen visions of the Golden State, with LaSalle's unmistakable contrarian humor as the guide. His writing, unerringly perceptive and resistant to cliché, brings clarity to the haze of Hollywood reverie. He leaps effortlessly between genres and generations, moving with ease from Double Indemnity to the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Boyz N the Hood to Booksmart. There are natural disasters, heinous crimes, dubious utopias, dangerous romances, and unforgettable nights. Equally entertaining and unsettling, this book is a bold dissection of the California dream and its hypnotizing effect on the modern world.
This Is Not A Gun
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Author : Cara Levine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-23
This Is Not A Gun written by Cara Levine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with categories.