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- Publication Name
- American Romances
- Book Title
- American Romances : Essays
- Subtitle
- Essays
- EAN
- 9780872864986
- ISBN
- 9780872864986
- Release Date
- 18/06/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- City Lights
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- American / General
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder." -- Thurston Moore , Sonic Youth "If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric -- to a pop standard. An homage -- a menage -- to America, exposing what's laid bare in a comic tragic redux. I laughed till it hurt." -- Van Dyke Parks , Composer/Arranger "Anyone who can get from the Eucharist, to a Necco Wafer, to the goo beween the Oreo wafers, to the Inquisition, to the goo between the legs of excited young women is a distant sibling of mine. She can dash and she can drift and she is not much interested in the really bad parts that might qualify as confession. She likes the float of quotidian living and I like to read the words upon which she floats." -- Dave Hickey , author of Air Guitar The impulse to tell our worst to a bunch of strangers has been fueling American self-hood for 300 years: there's a direct line from the Puritan confession narrative to today's lurid, inescapable exhibitionism. But whose stories are we telling? This collection of mordant, poignant, and playful essays shows Rebecca Brown at the height of her imaginative and intuitive powers. A wry, incisive social and literary critique is couched in a gonzo mix of pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, misremembered movie plots, and fantasy that plays with the notion of what it is to be "American." Fantastical connections and unlikely meetings span the course of America's cultural history in a manic remix, featuring appearances by Brian Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Invisible Man, the Abligensian Crusade, John Wayne, Felix Mendelssohn, JFK, Shane, and God. Rebecca Brown 's books include: The Gifts of the Body , The Last Time I Saw You , The Haunted House , Terrible Girls , and The End of Youth .
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Publisher
City Lights
ISBN-10
0872864987
ISBN-13
9780872864986
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70987027
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Romances : Essays
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.R6973a44 2009
Reviews
"Rebecca Brown's American Romances tickles the minds of her readers, enticing their imaginations and provoking their sensibilities to follow her on journey through a course of history that explores all figures and moments iconic to the American experience. Making bold statements in drawing delightfully unexpected connections, this collection of essays conscientiously acknowledges its wild, sometimes carnivalesque perceptions and flourishes them for the reader unapologetically. With its frank curiosity and often irreverent confessions, Brown's pen produces a voice that is both refreshing and confidential - one has the distinct impression that as readers we are being offered a glimpse into thoughts and experiences that have not before been uttered, let alone written. The endnotes that culminate each chapter maintain the collection's insightful and witty humor. Drawing upon literature, film, music and history, American Romances is a work whose wide spectrum probes at the reader's senses and, as varying frequencies resonate within her audience, Brown has written a book that, in fact, Becomes more your own with every read." --Natalie Yasmin Soto, "In this anomalous collection of eight essays, Brown (The Gifts of the Body) juxtaposes her personal history with classic literature and movies. . . This whimsical flight of imagination shows how books and reading have influenced the author's life. Recommended for creative writing students and aspiring writers." -Joyce Sparrow, "In this anomalous collection of eight essays, Brown (The Gifts of the Body) juxtaposes her personal history with classic literature and movies. . . This whimsical flight of imagination shows how books and reading have influenced the author's life. Recommended for creative writing students and aspiring writers." --Joyce Sparrow, "In American Romances, Brown uses author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his work as a springboard for leaping into considerations of literary history, religion, music, pop culture, human sexuality and more. A little surprisingly, the automobile does not figure into this eclectic mix, but I'd still advise buckling your seatbelt before you take off through Brown's amazing mindscape, and holding on tight as she careens in dazzling form and at breakneck speed around ideas about work ethic, race and gender warfare, religious fanaticism, family dynamics, memory and manifest destiny." --Barbara Lloyd McMichael, "Ultimately, American Romances offers bold reflection on the complicated question of trying to figure out just what is and isn't American. Rebecca Brown has written a fun and powerful book that balances its insight with entertainment." --Ted English, "Rebecca Brown's newest collection of short fiction pulses with desires that cannot be attained--knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love. . . . The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre."--Utne Reader "She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian writers, one who constantly pushes both her own boundaries and those of her readers."--San Francisco Chronicle, "In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity." -Susan Stinson, "Like cowgirls? Like flyboys? Like reading? Then you'll really like Rebecca Brown. . . . These essays mash autobiography with heritage in mischievous but poignant, painful prose. Imminently readable, unambiguously personal, and ultimately revelatory, each essay begins with a quote or two by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Brown traces the arc of our cultural identity from the original 'City on the Hill' to a 'suburb in the sand' (where the Beachboys lived in Hawthorne, California). Brian Wilson's bleak childhood is juxtaposed with both Hawthorne's and the author's. These high interest matrixes make for a galloping read. Coupled with an uncanny knack for finding connections, is a percussive, even mesmerizing rhythm. . . . We come from guilt -- Brown lays bare our wounds and in doing so she kindles our hope for understanding." -- Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, "Brown's voice sounds more relaxed, more confident, than ever before. Her new stories fold history, theory, memory, and outright lies into rich, articulate essays that stretch the boundaries of your brain." --Brendan Kiley, "Brown's voice sounds more relaxed, more confident, than ever before. Her new stories fold history, theory, memory, and outright lies into rich, articulate essays that stretch the boundaries of your brain." -Brendan Kiley, "In American Romances, Brown uses author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his work as a springboard for leaping into considerations of literary history, religion, music, pop culture, human sexuality and more. A little surprisingly, the automobile does not figure into this eclectic mix, but I'd still advise buckling your seatbelt before you take off through Brown's amazing mindscape, and holding on tight as she careens in dazzling form and at breakneck speed around ideas about work ethic, race and gender warfare, religious fanaticism, family dynamics, memory and manifest destiny." -Barbara Lloyd McMichael, "'Some things, no matter how far apart, occur again the same. They happen the same again and over again. The same except for different, and forever.' Now that we are swimming in information, facts often seem more like flotsam than train tracks leading anywhere. The circle seems ever more appropriate as the shape of history. Rebecca Brown, info-entrepreneur, can write her own history, pairing, for example, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Brian Wilson (who grew up in Hawthorne, Calif.). 'Hawthorne, writer from the east, and Hawthorne, suburb in the west, are twisted in a Mobius strip: the child and its evil twin, the maker and its son. The City on the Hill became the suburb in the sand.' Out of this archaeology comes a new view of Puritanism, scarlet letters, dreams of the Founding Fathers. Snail paths intersect at junctions (matrices) formed by common names and places. Brown admits to being a nostalgic child (nostalgia as a kind of pain, 'The pain of returning returns . . . the pain of leaving what you left / and knowing what you wanted never was.') The essays in 'American Romances' cover a lot of ground: listening, faith, invisibility, extreme reading, the West. They practically read themselves, that's how much fun they are." -- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, "Rebecca Brown's American Romances tickles the minds of her readers, enticing their imaginations and provoking their sensibilities to follow her on journey through a course of history that explores all figures and moments iconic to the American experience. Making bold statements in drawing delightfully unexpected connections, this collection of essays conscientiously acknowledges its wild, sometimes carnivalesque perceptions and flourishes them for the reader unapologetically. With its frank curiosity and often irreverent confessions, Brown's pen produces a voice that is both refreshing and confidential - one has the distinct impression that as readers we are being offered a glimpse into thoughts and experiences that have not before been uttered, let alone written. The endnotes that culminate each chapter maintain the collection's insightful and witty humor. Drawing upon literature, film, music and history, American Romances is a work whose wide spectrum probes at the reader's senses and, as varying frequencies resonate within her audience, Brown has written a book that, in fact, Becomes more your own with every read." -Natalie Yasmin Soto, "Ultimately, American Romances offers bold reflection on the complicated question of trying to figure out just what is and isn't American. Rebecca Brown has written a fun and powerful book that balances its insight with entertainment." -Ted English, "Rebecca Brown's newest collection of short fiction pulses with desires that cannot be attained--knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love. . . . The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre." - Utne Reader "She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian writers, one who constantly pushes both her own boundaries and those of her readers." - San Francisco Chronicle, "The essays in American Romances cover a lot of ground: listening, faith, invisibility, extreme reading, the West. They practically read themselves, that's how much fun they are." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, "In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity." --Susan Stinson, "Rebecca Brown's newest collection of short fiction pulses with desires that cannot be attained--knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love ... The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre."--Utne Reader "She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian writers, one who constantly pushes both her own boundaries and those of her readers."--San Francisco Chronicle, "The essays in American Romances cover a lot of ground: listening, faith, invisibility, extreme reading, the West. They practically read themselves, that's how much fun they are." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, "Like cowgirls? Like flyboys? Like reading? Then you'll really like Rebecca Brown. . . . These essays mash autobiography with heritage in mischievous but poignant, painful prose. Imminently readable, unambiguously personal, and ultimately revelatory, each essay begins with a quote or two by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Brown traces the arc of our cultural identity from the original 'City on the Hill' to a 'suburb in the sand' (where the Beachboys lived in Hawthorne, California). Brian Wilson's bleak childhood is juxtaposed with both Hawthorne's and the author's. These high interest matrixes make for a galloping read. Coupled with an uncanny knack for finding connections, is a percussive, even mesmerizing rhythm. . . . We come from guilt - Brown lays bare our wounds and in doing so she kindles our hope for understanding." - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-035716
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Dewey Edition
22
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