Download or read book Japanthem Countercultural Experiences Cross Cultural Remixes written by Jillian Marshall and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both personally revealing and informed by years of immersive research, JAPANTHEM: Countercultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes is filled with honest vignettes that delve beyond the aspects of Japanese culture that have captivated the western world to portray a society's deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider. Informed by a decade of back-and-forth across the Pacific and years of immersive research for a doctoral thesis in ethnomusicology, Jillian Marshall explores the music of contemporary Japan through a prism of serendipity, romance, learning life lessons the hard way, and an insatiable curiosity for the human spirit. The book's twenty vignettes--including what it's like to be subtly bullied by your Buddhist dance teacher, go to a secret rave in woods near Mt. Fuji, meet a pop star at a basement club, and experience a nuclear disaster unfold by the minute--are based on first-hand experiences, and illustrate music's fascinating relationship to Japanese society with honesty, intelligence, and humor. JAPANTHEM offers a uniquely nuanced portrayal of life in the Land of the Rising Sun--while encouraging us to listen more deeply in (and to) Japan in the process.
Download or read book The Pink Institution written by Selah Saterstrom and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical photographs, images and texts, The Pink Institution traces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the reader in its wake. Selah Saterstrom's writing has appeared in 3rd Bed and Pitkin Review. She is the editor of Soul Collections, a collection of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina. Born in Mississippi in 1974, she now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she teaches at Warren Wilson College.
Download or read book Ism Is a Retrovirus written by Matthew Hupert and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hupert's rock-solid collection of 87 poems examine life, lust, love, religion, and politics in a word-play phantasmagoria in which, according to poet Dean Kostos, "sound is meaning and syntax is thrummed like strings on a guitar."
Download or read book Japan s Information War written by Nancy Snow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is seen as a leader in soft power, the ability to attract and persuade rather than coerce, but is this the result of government initiatives? In Japan's Information War, public diplomacy and propaganda specialist Nancy Snow takes an inside look at brand Japan's inner workings. The result of two years of intensive research as an Abe Fellow, Snow makes a critical analysis of Japan's global diplomacy and gives insights on how Japan could improve its nation branding strategy.
Download or read book Tink and Wendy written by Kelly Ann Jacobson and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Needlework written by Julia Watts and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums. Nanny is Kody's main caregiver, but it takes both Nanny and Kody to take care of Kody's mother, whose drug problem is spinning out of control. Between looking after Mommy and trying to survive in a place that doesn't look kindly on feminine boys, Kody already has a hard time making sense of his life. But then he uncovers a family secret that will change everything in his life.
Download or read book Don t Hide the Madness written by William S. Burroughs and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense, compelling conversation between legendary Beat icons William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, featuring photos by Ginsberg, and details of Burroughs' shamanic exorcism of the demon that led him to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.
Download or read book Quiver written by Julia Watts and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling LBGTQ novel by LAMBDA award-winning author Watts explores the unlikely friendship between Libby, the oldest child in a rural Tennessee family of strict evangelical Christians, and Zo, her gender fluid new neighbor.
Download or read book Narcissus Nobody written by Gina Yates and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Townsend, a goth music devotee who prefers the company of dogs over people, finds herself haunted by the voice of disgraced self-help author Brooks Nixon.
Download or read book Animal Wrongs written by Stephen Spotte and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird Girl and What s His Name written by Meagan Brothers and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, high school geeks Lula and Rory share everything-- sci-fi and fantasy fandom, an obsession with old X-Files episodes, and the feeling that they'll never quite fit in.
Download or read book Ray by Ray written by Nicca Ray and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential new perspective on Nicholas Ray--legendary Hollywood director of Rebel Without a Cause--by his daughter and namesake Nicca, who examines her father's genius and demons, unraveling myths to illuminate who he really was, what drove him to create, and who, now, is Nicca Ray?
Download or read book Exile on Bridge Street written by Eamon Loingsigh and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile on Bridge Street details teenage Irish immigrant Liam Garrity's struggle to adulthood in pre-Prohibition Brooklyn. Back home, Ireland's fight for its own independence erupts with the 1916 Easter Rising. The fate of Garrity's father, an Irish rebel, is unknown, which leaves his mother and two sisters vulnerable on the family farm as British troops swarm, seeking reprisals. Garrity must organize their departure to New York immediately. In Brooklyn, Garrity is adopted by Dinny Meehan, leader of a longshoremengang based in an "Irishtown" saloon under the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. Meehan vows to help Garrity and his family. But just as Ireland struggles for independence, Garrity faces great obstacles in his own coming of age on the violent Brooklyn waterfront. World War I, the Spanish Influenza, the temperance movement, the rise of Italian organized crime, police, unions and shipping and dock companies all target the Brooklyn Irish gang and threaten Garrity's chances at bringing his family to New York. When "Wild Bill" Lovett, one of the gang's dockbosses vies to take over, both Meehan and Garrity face a fight for survival in New York City's brawling streets mirroring Ireland's own fledgling independence movement. Compelling writing by a master of historical fiction, as evidenced in the author's critically-acclaimed prequelLight of the Diddicoy.
Download or read book Everything Is Jake written by Jethro K. Lieberman and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bungled plea deal and a missing FBI agent lead detective fiction's newest and most charming and intuitive sleuth, T. R. Softly, to confront the oddest of the forty-odd presidents of the United States in a tangled mystery about identity and trust. It starts in Manhattan: a federal plea deal goes off the rails when a mob boss inexplicably recants his testimony two days after voluntarily confessing his crimes in open court. Days later, in courts across the United States, other crime lords confess, then recant. Afraid that her office may have been ensnared into criminal behavior, assistant U.S. attorney Mallory Greenstock summons the intuitive and charming detective T. R. Softly, to find the instigator: an FBI agent now on the run. It's Softly's second missing-person case in as many days: his oldest friend, Dr. Khaki Blumenthrace, an eminent neuroscientist, has also disappeared. As Softly begins his search nothing suggests the two cases are related. But he soon learns otherwise, when the trail takes him to Washington, D.C., and ultimately into the Oval Office, where the oddest of the forty-odd US presidents has been laying plans to emasculate the U.S. government. Co-opted into partnering with a secret unit of the FBI, Softly struggles to understand how many games are being played and by whom. Is he master of his fate or has he been the unwitting agent of friends and foe? A thrilling ride from start to spine-tingling finish.
Download or read book The Faking of the President written by Peter Carlaftes and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the White House be like if U.S. Presidents of the past acted with the same bizarre impunity as the 45th president? Nineteen award-winning, diverse authors offer new stories of bizarre presidential antics in this highly-recommended unique act of creative resistance--a must-have for fans of politics, noir, and speculative fiction.
Download or read book Mike Watt written by Peter Carlaftes and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 2010, Santa Monica's Track 16 Gallery hosted the first photographic exhibit by Mike Watt. The show featured 35 photos, which make up the first 35 images in this book. Interspersed with these images are excerpts from Watt's extenisve [sic] tour diaries. It is that juxtaposition of notes from the road and photos from his home base which led to the creation of Mike Watt: on and off bass."--Introduction.
Download or read book Scavenger written by Christopher Chambers and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A homeless man in Washington, D.C. finds himself caught up in a mysterious series of events. To unravel the situation, he must rely on his detective skills and street smarts to uncover the real perpetrator--before he is punished for a crime he didn't commit.
