Download or read book When a Fan Hits the Shit written by Jeanine Renne and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warhol written by Blake Gopnik and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his—or any—age To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. “The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,” as Gopnik writes. “That’s why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,” from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the “performance” of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom—and his attempted assassination. The extent and range of Warhol’s success, and his deliberate attempts to thwart his biographers, means that it hasn’t been easy to put together an accurate or complete image of him. But in this biography, unprecedented in its scope and detail as well as in its access to Warhol’s archives, Gopnik brings to life a figure who continues to fascinate because of his contradictions—he was known as sweet and caring to his loved ones but also a coldhearted manipulator; a deep-thinking avant-gardist but also a true lover of schlock and kitsch; a faithful churchgoer but also an eager sinner, skeptic, and cynic. Wide-ranging and immersive, Warhol gives us the most robust and intricate picture to date of a man and an artist who consistently defied easy categorization and whose life and work continue to profoundly affect our culture and society today.
Download or read book Octopus written by Steve Yockey and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5m / Dark Comedy / Unit set After young couple Kevin and Blake engage in an adventurous and hastily planned night of group sex with the older, more "experienced" Max and Andy, they are left trying to salvage their relationship from a pummeling mix of jealousy, betrayal, telegrams from a soaking wet delivery boy and a ravenous sea monster from the ocean floor. This universal love story rendered through a post-modern gay lens slips from domestic comedy into a darkly fantastic fable examining t
Download or read book How Photography Became Contemporary Art written by Andy Grundberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading critic’s inside story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes eloquently and authoritatively about photography’s “boom years,” chronicling the medium’s increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video. He also traces photography’s embrace by museums and galleries, as well as its politicization in the culture wars of the 80s and 90s. Grundberg reflects on the landmark exhibitions that defined the moment and his encounters with the work of leading photographers—many of whom he knew personally—including Gordon Matta-Clark, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He navigates crucial themes such as photography’s relationship to theory as well as feminism and artists of color. Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period’s leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 70s and 80s through the medium of photography.
Download or read book X The Unknown written by Shaun Hutson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth's surface. And people are dying. Incinerated beyond recognition. At the same time, hospitals have noticed an increase in catastrophic deformities in foetuses, and cancer levels soaring. Dr Adam Royston, a scientist working at the nearby military base, thinks he knows what it is; a creature as old as the earth that slumbers for centuries, then wakes to feed on the energy and radiation produced by humans. But if he's right, and they can't find a way to destroy the creature roaming the countryside, then it's not just Buckinghamshire that could be in danger, but the whole world.
Download or read book The Dime Novel in Children s Literature written by Vicki Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Drama written by William Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Danger Close written by William G. Boykin Lieutenant General (Retired) and published by Fidelis Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely into his twenties and already a highly decorated military hero, Army Special Forces veteran Blake Kershaw is now going to college, studying while recuperating from wounds received in Afghanistan, and planning to re-enter the Army as an officer after graduation. But life tosses Blake a curve when his country approaches him about using his special skills to avert a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in a major eastern U.S. city. To do that, he would need to become an operative deep within Al-Qaeda’s innermost circles—changing his entire identity, even his face. A true patriot, Blake makes the journey into a shadow world that leaves friends, family and, seemingly, even God far behind. But when things go terribly wrong, and his country looks set to destroy him, it is God and God’s people who intervene.
Download or read book The Friessens Books 25 27 written by Lorhainne Eckhart and published by Lorhainne Eckhart, INC.. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set collection in The Friessen Legacy Series includes Books 25 - 27 STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER Her father says he’s no good for her, and she doesn’t want to believe that he might be right. Sara Friessen, the youngest daughter of Laura and Andy, believes she’ll never find the man who can make her soul sing, especially because after just one meeting with her father, every young man who has ever knocked on her door has come to the quick conclusion that she isn’t worth the trouble. Fearing the promised wrath (as Andy so aptly puts it) that could befall them if they mess with his daughter, they always run the other way. That is until one night when a mysterious handsome stranger comes to her rescue. He’s bold and strong, just the kind of man she never expected could be real or that she would ever possibly meet—but she soon uncovers a hidden truth and the cold, ruthless side of the dark world he belongs to. Even though he tells her to stay away from him and that no good can come from getting involved with the likes of him, Sara’s heart has different ideas, and she’s determined to show him that true love is all they could ever need. THE BAD BOY As the youngest brother, Mark Friessen refuses to answer to anyone. He’s been called a restless bad boy because responsibility for his father’s ranch has never rested on his shoulders, even though he loves everything about the life of a cowboy. Working with the horses and the land, being in charge, and doing all the hard work on the ranch has always settled his restless nature—that is, until a rodeo queen broke his heart by running off with his best friend after two-timing him for six long months. The funny thing about broken hearts is that they make people do things they wouldn’t do if they were thinking clearly, as his mother so succinctly advised him during his ensuing dating spree. This is likely why Mark has now signed up to be a deputy in the next county over, with a badge, a gun, and the kind of power he thought he wanted. When he pulls young mousy librarian Daria McKenzie over for speeding, she is speechless and furious when she realizes he doesn’t remember who she is. This bad boy has left a trail of broken hearts in his wake—including hers. A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a story of family, romance, and finding a place to call home. Brad Friessen knows he has to sell the ranch, but not everyone is on board with his decision or open to a new beginning. He has a plan: Find a nice place with some land where he can retire—but for his children, life has suddenly become much more complicated. Katy and Steven have called the ranch home and aren’t inclined to see the adventure in their upcoming move. While Emily, Jack and Trevor, and Fletcher are somewhat open to the possibilities, what Brad doesn’t know is that Katy and Steven had a plan, too. The life they’ve always wanted is the kind of life Brad and Emily have, with the ranch, the land, and eventually more children. Finding a cheap, rundown house to rent wasn’t in the cards for Katy and Steven, nor has it been easy for either to be practical when their dream of having a ranch of their own to run, to raise a family on, seems to be moving ever further out of reach. As the countdown begins to the date they have to leave, to the sale of the one place they’ve all called home for what’s seemed like forever, Katy and Steven, Brad and Emily, and the rest of the Friessen family might just be crazy enough to find a way for them all to have what they truly want.
Download or read book Mystery Women written by Colleen A. Barnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1997 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mystery Women Volume One Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.
Download or read book Dragging Mason County written by Curtis Campbell and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SMALL TOWN CONNECTIONS: highlights queer small-town life, with an emphasis on community for the characters SHARP SENSE OF HUMOR: with many jokes and puns, the narrator’s sensibility is a cross between a shady drag queen and a self-deprecating stand up comedian THE DRAG SCENE: taps into the continuing mainstream popularity of drag seen in shows like Rupaul’s Drag Race and We’re Here, written by an author who does drag! SUMMER READ: the laugh-out-loud humor and drama that follows Peter makes Dragging Mason County the perfect summer read YA DEBUT: Curtis Campbell makes his stunning YA debut with a hit!
Download or read book Keeping In Practice written by Robert Perrin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-10-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping in Practice is a modern novel of the post-Cold War era when America´s ability to use covert action by the CIA was used to depose uncooperative or left-leaning leaders has fallen into disrepair. The President’s National Security Council is concerned that this skill must not be lost in case times change again, so it plans an small operation just to keep in practice. The target is the oil-rich but economically-gutted country of Nogana, on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, where an elected president has been overthrown by a military junta headed by the greedy, corrupt President-General Giwa Oko. An opposition movement has formed, setting up a perfect opportunity to get rid of the bad guys, restore democracy and....keep in practice. But U.S. budgets and manpower are tight, so much so that even the CIA presence in Nogana has been abolished. Moreover, the planners are ultra-cautious to avoid a “blowback” that would embarrass the President. So it is decided to run the mission with an absolute minimum of resources and a maximum of deniability. In fact, the NSC figures that just one man and some left-over weapons should suffice. If it works, fine; if it fails, no big deal. Sure, there will be some “collateral damage,” but isn’t there always? Chosen for the mission is 53-year-old Kevin Mackenzie, a disillusioned former CIA operative now a political science professor at a Michigan State University. Why Mackenzie? It seems that some years before, the professor had a Noganian graduate student, Ibrahim Mbola, who later returned to Nogana where he became a government minister. When Oko overthrew the president, Mbola took to the hills and started a guerrilla operation, which has popular backing but is poorly equipped. Mackenzie’s mission is to seek out Mbola and offer him U.S. guns in return for democratic rule, some port rights and other odds and ends. Summoned to the CIA’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters, Mackenzie is asked to find Mbola, make the offer of an arms drop and then come home. Simple. Mackenzie, who had spent 20 years in the spook business, resists vehemently. He spots the operation as jury-rigged and prone to disaster, and it is just this sort of arrogant intervention, along with a promise to his late wife, that drove him out of the CIA. He finally is persuaded that he owes it to his former student to at least make the presentation, although an old CIA adversary warns that the professor could be a loose cannon. Because the CIA no longer has any “assets” in Nogana, the only known internal link to Mbola is a librarian at the Nogana National Library, which would fit in neatly with Mackenzie’s cover: a government research grant to a study of past colonialism in the country. The mission turns sour even earlier than Mackenzie predicted – and more violent. At a stopover in London, he barely survives a mysterious assassination attempt in Hyde Park, although a clue later suggests a connection with Libya, whose unpredictable leader, unknown to the CIA, has his own interests in Nogana. Proceeding to the capital, Newjaga, Mackenzie encounters the young taxi driver, Lumba, with his Detroit Tigers baseball cap and 1975 Ford Galaxie, and engages him as his personal driver. On his first visit to the National Library, he meets the presumptive link to Mbola, the tawny-skinned, blue-eyed librarian, Fiona Lasaday, a stunning product of Scots, Noganian, Indian and Egyptian gene pooling. He is smitten, but he also is acutely aware that there is a strong link between her and Mbola. Through Fiona, Mackenzie has a rendevous with Mbola and makes the offer, emphasizing that the U.S. interest and support could collapse without warning and leave the guerrillas high and dry. Although taken aback by Mackenzie’s candor, Mbola is desperate to arm his men, so he accepts the offer, anyway. Instead of going home, however, Mackenzie is then ordered by the CI
Download or read book Telling It Like It Is written by Joe Darensbourg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-09-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City written by Laura Lee Hope and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1917 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grimaulkin Collected written by L. A. Jacob and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike LeBonte went to prison for summoning demons and using magic. At the age of 18, he is let out for good behavior. Now he’s trying to make a better life for himself. He’s trying to stay out of trouble. However, trouble finds him, because someone has summoned a demon in a local park, and he is called in to assist the police in figuring out who did it — that is, if he didn’t do it himself. At the same time, he is attempting to make inroads with a handsome young man in the city, the owner of a New Age store in downtown. Mike also assists his cousin who is being stalked by someone — or a group — while fighting off his new boyfriend’s ex. And when you think it’s over, someone has summoned Lucifer. But with the help of modern chemistry, Mike doesn’t have magic anymore. This is just a few of the adventures that befall Mike, also known by his prison name: Grimaulkin.
