Download or read book Smith An Unauthorized Fictography written by Jory Post and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this kaleidoscopic, episodic joy ride, Jory Post treats us to thirty interviews that may or may not be real, with an array of “ordinary” people who turn out to be anything but, all of them in conversation with an interviewer who is herself a mystery. As one encounter follows another, we realize that “Smith” is a convenient alias for a range of voices, including: a traveling nurse from Saipan, a Vietnam-war vet who lives in his truck, a woman who can only tell her own story through fairy tales, a young man more comfortable talking to animals than people, an army brat, a poker prodigy, a pool shark. Some of these Smiths offer themselves openly to the interviewer, while others reveal as much in their resistance as they do in their narratives. Through it all, the stories, distinct and musical as jazz solos, give voice to what we want, what thrills us, what we’ve been most hurt or touched by, and what we will never forget — secrets any one of us might spill if only someone would listen. Jory Post has.
Download or read book The Library of Everything written by Hunter Terrell and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to The Library. This is no ordinary library. This magical place is infinite, and upon these shelves resides a book for everything … Everything. Every tree, every raindrop, every living thing that ever is, was, or will be, has a book that tells the story of their past, present, and future. Everyone has a book of their lives. That includes you. Yours is waiting, if you can find it … You are here because you have something to learn, and things you want to change about your lives and yourselves. The truths within these pages can be altered, granting you the power to bend reality to your will. But are you prepared to be the author of your own story?
Download or read book Dodging Prayers and Bullets written by Karen Beatty and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s. In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what’s labeled “righteous” and what she knows to be right. When her family moves up north to an urban setting, she struggles to overcome the social and gender limitations of the late 1950s and 1960s. Decades later, a chance encounter with a childhood nemesis prompts her to revisit the abiding love and playful river romps of her youth, along with a traumatic abduction and family violence. This fictional story celebrates the ability of a child to survive and thrive, despite those who would do her harm and the failed intentions of those who would protect her. It also explores decades of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, from the perspective of an evolving free-spirited female.
Download or read book Daily Fresh written by Jory Post and published by Unruly Voices (an imprint of Paper Angel Press). This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2020, the final summer of his life, Jory Post gave himself an assignment: He would write one essay a day, inspired by whatever caught his eye and imagination. The seventy essays that emerged — personal and idiosyncratic, contemplative and fierce — range in subject from the writing life, extinct birds, and the origins of words to the "three ‘C’s" (cancer, chemo, and Covid) and his love for his wife and friends. As he faced his last days, Jory Post measured the world around him and threw the full reach of his emotions and literary skills into these pages.
Download or read book how do you spell the sound of crickets written by Paola Bruni and published by Unruly Voices. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Write to me. Keep me alive,” wrote Jory Post to Paola Bruni as he was dying of inoperable cancer. Hence, the quiet conversation ensued — one poet to another — an intimate, and at times playful, sharing of hopes, fears, and grief.
Download or read book Still Life written by Paul Skenazy and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his wife, Edie, dies, Will Moran abandons all he used to be, and do, to paint still life canvases of rocks and driftwood on the walls of his house. He’s never painted before, recognizes that his paintings are awkward and ugly, but returns each day to his struggles with light and shadow, color and object, boundary and perspective. He eavesdrops on neighbors, dips into garbage cans, and fills his home with rocks he collects from local beaches. Through it all, he clings to his still lifes, each another attempt to represent the simplest elements of his world—rocks, wood, and grief.
Download or read book John L Lewis written by Saul Alinsky and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatically, from personal acquaintance and Lewis’s own files, Saul Alinsky writes here the inside story of one of the most powerful men in America. Its revelations of why Lewis broke with Roosevelt, of why he fought with the AF of L to form the CIO, of the birth of the sit-down strikes, of the motives behind the war strikes, of how Lewis has so often managed to stalemate the U.S. Government—these are front-page news. They are brought out with sharp insight by one of the most brilliant observers of the labor movement in this country. John L. Lewis is not only reporting of an extremely high order but one of the most stimulating biographies that have been published in many years. There is no one of us who can remain unaffected by the acts of the mine workers’ president.
Download or read book Carnival Farm written by Lisa Jacob and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lip Reader written by Michael Thal and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s not what you get in life, it’s what you give back that truly defines you.” Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her story firsthand. She reveals the real-life struggle of being a deaf woman who refuses to allow adversity to stop her from reaching her dreams of living a normal and fulfilling life. In 1985, disgusted with the treatment of Jews by the new Islamic government, Zhila immigrates to the United States in pursuit of better circumstances and a chance to receive a cochlear implant to improve her hearing. However, it isn’t until she is forty-nine, when she meets her soulmate, Mickey Daniels, that she begins to feel her life truly complete. A decade later, after they have fallen deeply in love, Zhila learns that she is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer. In the months that follow, Mickey becomes Zhila’s primary caretaker, and the two grow ever closer as they fight the disease together. Right up to the end, Zhila shows her caring nature, innate intelligence, and will power to overcome almost any challenge. Her courage and the beauty of her memory is certain to inspire all who venture to follow her on their quest for a truly meaningful life.
Download or read book The Extra Year written by Jory Post and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mortality and the imminence of dying is the window that frames the vision of this astonishing book. With candor, wit, and a deep humanity, he details a reverence for life out of the ordinary and commonplace of our days." -Joe Stroud
Download or read book Andrew s Accidental Mental Dental Love Call written by Paul S. Moore and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupid? Is that you?
Download or read book Travel Writing written by Peter Ferry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-school English teacher in a wealthy Chicago suburb by day and a travel writer by night, Pete Ferry witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman and becomes obsessed over whether or not the accident could have been prevented, a situation that strains his relationships and sense of reality.
Download or read book Old Heart written by Peter Ferry and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few “events,” though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II. And so he slips away, deftly covers his tracks, and begins his search for her in Eindhoven. While his children try to track him down and then have him extradited back home, Tom delves into love and loss and the value of memory. Soon he catches sight of a woman he believes to be Sarah, the love he lost almost a lifetime ago. He will have to fight for her affections and forgiveness, even as he fights for the legal right to stay in the Netherlands in the name of love and family and all the remaining rights of an old man.
Download or read book Of Two Minds written by Jory Post and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Two Minds is the second in a trilogy of poetry books dedicated to the thoughts and meanderings of a born-again poet who carries with him not only a desire to hunt and gather and collect everything he can but also a persistent pancreatic tumor that provides a hauntingly realistic filter through which to observe the world and the people and animals that inhabit it."More than any book I can think of, Jory Post's prose poetry collections incant the brief and brilliant present moment. Illness is the dark side of the dharma of now, and Post takes us along to the oncologist and the operating room while also surging through days with the artist's eye, missing no bloom or bowl of oatmeal or vicarious mountain hike. Each poem sends out a blinking light that sets the next one in motion, and the work becomes a remarkable record of the way a mind recovers the pieces of a life as a daily practice, the way it multiplies and holds an accordion of thought. In these compressed narratives befitting of urgency, he floats above canyons, is a burning star, a search light, beckoning us to make a bright spectacle of ourselves, one more time. Of Two Minds is an invitation, an ephemera room, a memory garden, a singular moment where a cabinet of surprise awaits." -Jennifer K. Sweeney
Download or read book Memory and Metaphor written by Andrea Monticue and published by Water Dragon Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilization fell. It rose. At some point, people built starships. A millennium after the Earth was abandoned to climate change and resource depletion, Sharon Manders wakes up in a body that used to belong to somebody else, and some say she was a terrorist. She has no idea how she could be digging for Pleistocene bones in Africa one day, and crewing on a starship the next. That was just before she met the wolfman, the elf, and the sex robot. Struggling with distressingly unreliable memories, the expectations of her host body’s family and crewmates, future shock, and accusations of treason, Sharon goes on the lam to come face to face with terrorists, giant bugs, drug cartels, AIs, and lawyers. All things considered, she’d rather be back in 21st Century California.
Download or read book Fruit of the Devil written by Mary Flodin and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm … even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it’s more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issues for children and adults. When the teenage sister of a migrant student goes missing from the strawberry fields, it becomes clear that pesticide poisoning isn’t the only thing threatening the children’s safety, and Aurora begins to understand why farmworkers call strawberries Fruta del Diablo — the Fruit of the Devil. Aurora starts asking questions and gets caught in a web of gangs, drugs, trafficking, and high-level corporate crime. When a Catholic priest comes to her aid, she falls in love with him, complicating her life further. She has no idea he’s actually an ancient nature god out of Pacific Coast indigenous legends.
Download or read book Corporate Catharsis written by Steven Radecki and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the anthology we all need — one that can help us survive our corporate servitude with our hearts and souls intact. We’ve all been there: standing behind a desk or a counter for ridiculously long hours, letting the movie of our imagination roll behind our eyes. We’re certain that you can, far too easily, find inspiration from your workplace. Magic, mayhem, revenge — and, yes, perhaps even redemption — can all be found here.
