Download or read book Vaporfornia written by Robert Stark and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you homesick for a place you're not sure even exists? Nostalgic for a lost future? If so, let Robert Stark guide you on a journey...

Download or read book Fauna written by Erik Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 25 years of dabbling with Fauna, I find it difficult to reduce to a few words what this creative writing project is all about. My first thought is that your relationship with Fauna should not be defined or limited by my authorial interpretation. What I mean is that I want you to be free to experience this one-of-a-kind "wanthology" on your own, and form your unique opinion of it. Or perhaps I should say, form your unique opinion of her.Yes, Fauna personified is female, the name of the Roman goddess of the animals, among other things. That leads to the most commonly known denotation of Fauna, as Webster's puts it, "the animals characteristic of a region..." Does that mean that Fauna is primarily about animals, or the goddess of the animals? Well... yes, the animals of the imaginary lands of Vaporfornia and Ja Ja Listo, but it's more than that.Fauna began as a creative writing assignment at the Escuela de Escritores SOGEM (the SOGEM School for Writers) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, around 1994. I was a young North American primate who had moved to Mexico to study translation and interpretation at a fauniversity there, and who ended up surviving by teaching English to some native coatis, cocker spañiels, and she-coyotes.After a translatress that I knew convinced me that the Master's program was unnecessary, I dropped out and enrolled at the SOGEM. I especially enjoyed the Taller de Narrativa, or Narrative Workshop; the Taller de Poesía, or Poetry Workshop; and Lectura Comentada, or Reading With Commentary. Each week in Narrativa we were to write a new story, and bring it to the class in the form of photocopies for everyone. Now, looking back, I don't believe I actually wrote much, but rather scratched a little here and there. My greatest success was a review I wrote about Pedro Páramo for Lectura Comentada, which when I read it out loud to the class generated a hearty round of applause.There were different topics that we wrote, or scratched, about; for example there was suspense, there was romance, and then one week there was an assignment to write a short story about animals. That was the beginning of Fauna. I got the idea to write in English and Spanish from Juan Hernandez Senter (Centaur?), who had been my professor of translation in a class I took at California State University, Long Beach. He had a book signing at the SOGEM on a visit of his to Guadalajara, and I bought a couple of his bilingual books of poems. I thought the bilingual nature of his books, the translation equivalents and so on, to be quite bland. In short, I thought I could do better.I began to brainstorm in English and Spanish, mostly titles of short stories, and characters, and some potential plots for the stories. But I did not have a short story to present to the class the following week. When I finally had some pages to photocopy, it may have even been the next semester, I believe. But everyone thought the humor evident in my writings was contagious, and gave me very positive reviews of what I had so far.Now Fauna is the result of years of creation and evolution. I would describe Fauna as a kind of mixture of creative writing, translation, narrative and poetry, ostensibly about animals. In the beginning, as I attempted to write multiple short stories at the same time, what came out were shape poems and concrete poetry. So there is a heavy dose of forms and shapes along my quest of the elusive short story. But wait, was there a short story hidden, buried in the 296 pages of my writings? Or more than one story? That is for you to determine. Good luck! ¡Buena suerte!

Download or read book The Journey to Vapor Island written by Robert Stark and published by Robert Stark. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a fan of the macabre? A dreamer who enjoys stepping into the dark side of life? If so, let Robert Stark guide you into the phantasmagorical realm of Noam Metzenbaum, a young man with a penchant for very dangerous dreams...

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Download or read book Jordanetics written by Vox Day and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Peterson is believed by many to be the greatest thinker that humanity has ever known. He is Father Figure, Philosopher-King, and Prophet to the millions of young men who are his most fervent fans and followers. He has dared to think thoughts that no man has ever thought before. And, as Vox Day shows, he is also a madman and a fraud.

Download or read book A Middle North written by Robert Stark and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Stark's collection, A Middle North, is like a finger poking directly into the eye of bad contemporary English poetry. Its fantastic mastery of language and images-not surprising since the poet is a familiar of Ezra Pound-as well as its radical centreless cardinality-from England to Lebanon to the USA and Mexico, to name just a few roads travelled-proves how poetry is much more than just experience and language. Stark's radical stand is a welcome flood of nuances, colours and forms on the parched lands of today's boring poetica. A Middle North is now officially a personal classic for me, as it will be for the many other readers looking for words that matter. Seb Doubinsky author of Spontaneous Combustions, Mothballs: Quantum Poems and others Robert Stark is the author of Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship. A Middle North is his first collection of verse. Stark was born in Glasgow, studied at the University of Minnesota and has since lived in Mexico, Lebanon, Kuwait, Seoul and South West England, accompanied by Jack (spaniel). The title therefore asks for compass, and seeks to find one in unlikely places.

Download or read book Information Theory written by William Sacco and published by Everyday Learning Corporation. This book was released on 1988 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blueprint for a Time Machine written by Robert Stark and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel, time travel is not only possible, but it can be taught to all those who have the desire to learn. The reader simply needs to follow the four simple rules that are laid out in the book. The readers are already on a time journey, they only need to knock down the barriers that they have built around themselves.

Download or read book Ezra Pound s Early Verse and Lyric Tradition written by Robert Stark and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lyricism and musicality in Pound's early verse through to his radical Modernist style. Robert Stark argues that Pound learned how to write poetry more or less as if it was a foreign tongue - or poetic 'jargon' - with a unique lexicon, grammar, and even morphology, and that his most innovative poetry is the result of his ambivalent orientation towards different European literary traditions.Stark contextualizes Pound's poetic craft by examining his relationship to the Mediaeval and Classical originators of the methods he employs and by considering the practice and criticism of his immediate Victorian and Romantic predecessors. He explores the influence of poets such as Francois Villon, Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman on Pound's lyrical style. For Stark, Pound's multi-vocalism arises out of his interest in dialect and the acoustic qualities of speech which leads to a 'modern' barbarous language marked by polysemy and heterogeneity.

Download or read book North American New Right written by Greg Johnson and published by Counter-Currents Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NORTH AMERICAN NEW RIGHT is the journal of a new intellectual movement, the North American New Right. This movement seeks to understand the causes of the ongoing demographic, political, and cultural decline of European peoples in North America and around the globe-and to lay the metapolitical foundations for halting and reversing these trends. The North American New Right seeks to apply the ideas of the European New Right and allied intellectual and political movements in the North American context. Thus NORTH AMERICAN NEW RIGHT publishes translations by leading European thinkers as well as interviews, articles, and reviews about their works.

Download or read book John Frankenheimer written by Stephen B. Armstrong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Frankenheimer's career as a professional director began and ended in television. In the mid-1950s, he won acclaim working on live productions for anthology series like Playhouse 90, and from the mid-1990s until his death in 2002 he helmed a string of Emmy-winning features for cable TV, including The Burning Season (1994) and Andersonville (1996). Despite these successes, Frankenheimer's reputation rests primarily upon the nearly thirty feature films he directed, which range from bona fide classics like Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) to such lesser achievements as Prophecy (1979) and Dead Bang (1989). Unfortunately for Frankenheimer, the discrepancy between his best films and his worst led many critics during his lifetime to dismiss him as someone whose talent dissipated in the late 1960s. In the decade since his death, however, several critics have emerged who reject the assertion that the quality of Frankenheimer's output faded after an impressive start. In John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays, and Profiles, Stephen B. Armstrong has collected the most interesting and insightful articles and features published on this underrated director. While question-and-answer exchanges make up the bulk of the items featured here, also included are journalistic profiles of the director at work and essays Frankenheimer himself wrote for magazine audiences. In addition, readers will find a series of interviews of people who worked with Frankenheimer, including actors Roy Scheider, Tim Reid, and the director's wife of 40 years, Evans Frankenheimer. In this volume, the director and others look back on a career that included such films as Seven Days in May, The Train, Grand Prix, The Iceman Cometh, Black Sunday, and Ronin. The first collection of its kind, John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays, and Profiles enables those who value the director's work to develop a better understanding of the man through his own words and the words of others.

Download or read book Sharon Tate written by Ed Sanders and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic tradition, Sanders presents the most thorough look ever into the heartbreaking story of Sharon Tate, the iconic actress who found love, fame, and ultimately tragedy during her all-too-brief life. Sharon Tate: A Life traces Sharon's path from beauty queen to budding young actress: her early love affairs, her romance with and marriage to director Roman Polanski, and the excitement of the glamorous life she had always sought -- all set against the background of the turbulent 1960s. This sympathetic account tells the powerful story of her determined rise through the ranks of Hollywood and to the brink of stardom before her name became forever linked with the shocking murder spree that took her life. In 1969, the Polanski house was targeted by the followers of cultist Charles Manson. Why the Manson clan focused its gaze on Sharon remains unclear, but the world was soon shocked to its core as it learned of the brutal murders of a pregnant Sharon Tate and her friends at her idyllic home in Los Angeles. Sanders once again examines this horrific crime and its aftermath, expounding on what may have led the killers to that particular house on that particular evening. Sharon Tate takes readers on a sometimes joyous yet inevitably heart-wrenching tour of the '60s as seen through the eyes of someone who lived it, survived it, and remembers it all too well. Brilliant illustrations by noted artist Rick Veitch lend character to this riveting narrative of the life and times of a beloved actress whose image and whose fate still haunt us to this day.

Download or read book Beatnik Fascism written by Brandon Adamson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of way out poetry for the non-conformists of today.

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Download or read book A Fortunate Life written by Robert Vaughn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable and delightful memoir of a life spent in the uppermost circles of acting, politics, and the world Robert Vaughn was born an actor. His family worked in the theater for generations, and he knew from the very start that he would join them. In his fifty-year career, Vaughn has made his mark in roles on stage, in film, and on television the world over. In A Fortunate Life, he describes some of the one-of-a-kind experiences he's enjoyed in his celebrated career. A Fortunate Life reveals the details of his early years in Hollywood, when he found himself appearing as often in the gossip magazines as on screen, and he recounts insider stories about such legendary figures as Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Yul Brynner, Elizabeth Taylor, and many more. Vaughn's work in The Young Philadelphians, The Magnificent Seven, Superman III, and many other films won kudos from critics and peers alike. Worldwide recognition came when he starred in the smash hit series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and he vividly describes the extraordinary experience of becoming, quite suddenly, one of the world's brightest stars. Vaughn warmly recalls his romances with stars like Natalie Wood and his adventures with friends like Steve McQueen and James Coburn, but equally important was his involvement in the politics of the 1960s. The first actor to publicly speak out against the war in Vietnam, he served as national chairman of Dissenting Democrats, the largest antiwar organization in the U.S. He gave hundreds of speeches denouncing the war, debated William F. Buckley on national TV, and helped persuade his friend Robert F. Kennedy to run for president in 1968---only to see the race end in tragedy. With a wealth of moving, wonderfully entertaining and often jaw-dropping stories from the worlds of acting and politics, A Fortunate Life is a must-read for fans of Robert Vaughn and anyone who wants a glimpse behind the scenes of classic Hollywood.

Download or read book A Dissident s Guide to Blacks and Africa written by Jared Taylor and published by New Century Books. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays about blacks and Africa. Taken together, they suggest profoundly important questions and imply conclusions that are just as important. They are questions America and the world cannot afford to ignore, and conclusions that America and the world will be able to draw only after a thorough reappraisal of virtually everything it is now fashionable to say about race. Race is not a "social construct." The races are not equivalent and interchangeable. Diversity is not a strength. Only after we understand these things can we begin to think realistically about how to solve the American dilemma.

Download or read book Nvsqvam Nowhere written by Ann Sterzinger and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's next? Male cervical cancer? Somebody said that alienation was a disease of the middle class. Probably Marx, but Lester Reichartsen doesn't have time to look it up. A decade ago, Lester was kicked out of the biggest punk band in Chicago. Since then he's been party to an accidental pregnancy, talked into marrying the other party, and roped into an academic career in Classical Letters, so time won't allow him to be curious about much of anything outside his "discipline." But if whoever said that was right, Lester is middle class for sure. The island of college-town academics he lives on now is almost as alien as the Bible Belt wasteland that surrounds it. So why is it that when some meth heads break into his little family's cramped apartment, the only thing they find of value to steal is his seven-year-old computer? If this is the middle class, then Lester doesn't want to know what lies beneath. Praise... If Celine and Hamsun weren't fascists, they'd be Ann Sterzinger. And finally, a book where the footnotes aren't a twee affectation. -Nick Mamatas Dark, tragic, and hilariously funny, Sterzinger's third novel will likely resonate differently with everyone, and should be considered a sound addition to your reading list. -Treason and Treachery This is an absolutely must-real novel. . . . NVSQVAM succeeds in part because despite being a woman, Sterzinger absolutely nails the hopelessness and listlessness of the average middle-aged American man. It sounds condescending to write that, but being able to write convincing characters of the opposite sex is a tough job for any novelist, and Sterzinger accomplishes it with aplomb. -Matt Forney Deft satire, intermingling comedy and tragedy in a manner reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's early works. -Paul Bingham If I had a voice in the fawning, compliant corporate media, I'd advise readers everywhere to defenestrate Jonathan Frazen's Freedom or whatever other mass-marketed, safe, suburban faux "edgy" book they're reading right now, and snap up a copy of NVSQVAM (nowhere) instead. Not because I think all of those readers would truly enjoy what this novel has to offer, but because I secretly relish the thought of them hurting their little whitebread minds on this book's razor-sharp edges. -Anonymous Lester Reichartsen is a self-absorbed, largely useless asshole but he's our asshole, my generation's asshole. You can't hobble large segments of a generation and then hold them completely responsible for limping. -Anita Dalton, Odd Things Considered I admire aesthetic integrity and appreciate literary talent, and Ann Sterzinger has both of these in spades. -Andy Nowicki NVSQVAM (nowhere) is a very funny and tragic novel of not just the horror of living in the early 21st century, but of being alive at all. Lester Reichartsen is an excruciatingly human character whose life makes you laugh to keep from crying at how awful and pathetic it is. Between this and The Talkative Corpse, I'm convinced Ann Sterzinger is one of the most underrated writers working today. The attention she receives is far too sparse for someone who can write this well. -Ben Arzate Ann Sterzinger's writing is electric. -Frank Marcopolos Some books keep you at arms' length from their characters misery. Ann Sterzinger shoves your nose in it, like you're a misbehaving dog and the book is your mistake. In one sense, it's very funny. In another sense, it's not funny at all. It doesn't matter who you are. If you're made of carbon, SOMETHING in this book will hit too close to home. -Empty World NOTE: This new edition of Ann Sterzinger's cult novel NVSQVAM (nowhere) has been mildly retuned for your reading pleasure and comes appended with an incisive new aft