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A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
Andrei CodrescuSince emigrating to the U.S. from the Nosferatu darknesses of his native Romania in 1966, Andrei Codrescu has blazed a rocket-bright trail across the cultural landscape of his adopted country, gaining a national audience as public radio ...
The Poetry Lesson
Andrei CodrescuNeither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny.
Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America
Kirby Olson"This work explores Codrescu's writings and how they are a part of the surrealist tradition.
Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998
Andrei CodrescuIn this text, Codrescu and Rosenthal resurrect the best essays and poems from Carl Rakosi, James Purdy, Joel Oppenheimer, Robert Creeley, Tom Clark and other members of America's vibrant and eclectic avant-garde.
A Craving for Swan
Andrei CodrescuEssays deal with Stalin, time, television, bears, eternal youth, fashion, summer, the imagination, longings, metaphors, science, shopping, and the future
Wakefield: A Novel
Andrei CodrescuFor Wakefield, who is estranged from his family, nearly friendless, and excellent at his job of lowering expectations in a positivity-crazed world, living “authentically” is a tall order.
Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey
Andrei CodrescuWith the United States resuming relations with Cuba for the first time in decades, Ay,Cuba! is more relevant now than ever before.
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Andrei CodrescuPublished in 2005 as Putting Your Passion Into Print, this is the book that’s been praised by both industry professionals (“Refreshingly honest, knowledgeable and detailed. . .
Messiah: A Novel
Andrei CodrescuWhen two extraordinary young women--Felicity, a Creole orphan, and Andrea, an escapee from a Serbian POW camp--meet in New Orleans in December 1999, they realize that together they are destined to embody the Messiah as Armageddon rages ...
Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
Andrei CodrescuThe essays in Zombification (all taken from this poet's popular commentaries for NPR) were broadcast during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period that witnessed the collapse of Communism, radical changes in American politics and society, ...
The Blood Countess: A Novel
Andrei CodrescuInterweaving past and present, The Blood Countess tells the stories of Elizabeth’s debauched and murderous reign and Drake’s fascination with the eternal clashes of faith and power, violence and beauty.
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Mark Patrick OdlandKirby Olson studied poetry at Naropa Institute with Gregory Corso, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Sanders. He is the author of Comedy After Postmodernism, Andrei Codrescu & The Myth of America, Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist, ...
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality ...
Ethan GilsdorfThis is at once a primer on the world of gaming, a self-help manual, and a wistful meditation on the passing of real time in a (nearly) virtual world.” —Andrei Codrescu, NPR commentator and author of The Posthuman Dada Guide “An orcs ...
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Andrei CodrescuAlas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.
Comedy After Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward ...
Kirby Olsonacknowledgments My thanks extend to Steve Shaviro, Raimonda Modiano, Shannon Hengen, Andrei Codrescu, and Gary Handwerk for editorial advice and moral support. "Edward Lear: Deleuzian Landscape Painter," originally appeared in ...
The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics
Amy S. Green18 Andrei Serban, "Andrei Serban Introduces The Miser," American Repertory Theatre News, April 1989, p. 3. 19 Moliere, Tlte Miser and George Dandin, p. 48. 20 Serban, "Andrei Serban Introduces The Miser," p. 3. 21 Moliere, Theatre ...
Theatre Studies
More editionsEd Menta's The Magic World Behind the Curtain: Andrei Serban in the American Theatre, focuses on Romanian director Andrei Serban and the inspiration behind his work in the American theatre. The book examines his early avani-garde ...
Ellen Stewart and La Mama: A Study of Theatrical Spaces
Susan Lisbeth Chast*"The Master List of Plays from the Beginning, " La Mama Archives. *Andrei Serban, quoted by Jennifer Dunning, "Serban Stages Shakespeare at La Mama," New York Times, Friday, 18 January 1980, C24. “Andrei Serban, quoted by Jennifer ...
Channels of Redistribution:Inequality and poverty in the ...
Simon Commander,Andrei Tolstopiatenko and Ruslan YemtsovProceedings
More editionsEXTRATERRESTRIAL REAL ESTATE: DEBUNKING THE MYTH by Virgiliu Pop, LL.M Str. Andrei Saguna B1.U2, ScA, Ap.3 Timisoara 300108 Romania ...
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The Foundation Pit
Andreĭ Platonovich PlatonovBut the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave.
The Magic World Behind the Curtain: Andrei Serban in the ...
Ed MentaKnown for his provocative visual imagery and his limitless imagination, this book emphasizes his re-interpretation of classical works such as Greek tragedy, Chekhov, and Carlo Gozzi.
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