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Rare literary and political memorabilia set. Collection of pieces by some of America's greatest living writers. Now considered a contemporary classic. Limited Edition of 200 signed copies. Published in conjunction with the most prestigious fundraising event for the Democratic Party's grassroots organization, Downtown for Democracy. An austerely elegant production by an unidentified group of artists, graphic designers, and printers: 10 x 12 inch loose broadsheets. Each broadsheet is printed on either pristine white or rich cream uncoated stock paper using the LetterPress Process to the very highest standards. Contributions by various writers. Introduction, "Where's My Democracy?", by Jonathan Safran Foer. Handsome black hard board box with yellow titles embossed on cover. Published on the occasion of the Inaugural Public Reading held at the Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York on March 25, 2004. Presents ten stupendous pieces read by their authors and prefaced by Jonathan Safran Foer. The event has a retrospective poignance because it was Susan Sontag's very last public appearance (and Wendy Wasserstein has also since passed away). Many people became demoralized by the victory of a Republican Party that Abraham Lincoln would not have recognized. Sontag, dying but inextinguishable, clung to hope to the very end, asserting that the country has a substantial near-majority that should keep on fighting and resisting. She died on December 28, 2004, an irreplaceable loss to contemporary life and literature. She and Foer were absolutely right: The fight goes on, the fight has just begun, and it will be waged (and won) with small statements that make a big difference. The spectacular Democratic comeback in 2006 makes this rare and radiant moment during a six-year Reign of Darkness sweet vindication indeed. A "must-have" title for collectors of contemporary literature. Eleven of the finest American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. © 2007 ModernRare.com ... Read more

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BOMB 76, Summer 2001, featuring: Interviews with Robert Mangold by Shirley Kaneda, Brian Tolle by William R. Kaizen, Robert Pollard by Mike McGonical, Carl Phillips by Nick Flynn, Colson Whitehead by Suzan Sherman, Kenneth Lonergan by Rachel Kushner, and Guillermo Arriaga by Jose Manuel Prieto. Essays on William Eggleston by Rachel Kushner, Inka Essenhigh by Ross Bleckner, Shahzia Sikander by David Hunt, Thomas Shannon by Mimi Thompson, and Zaha Hadid by Cheryl Kaplan. Fiction & Poetry by Fernando Vallejo, Lucio Pozzi, Arther Bradford, Nick Flynn, Joanne Jacobson, Willie Perdomo, Anna Moschovakis, Tom Bissell, and John Rybicki. ... Read more

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Colson Whitehead's second novel posits a folk antihero for the information age: junketeer and puff-piece-writing man J. Sutter. For his latest assignment, this freelance hack is sent to Talcott, West Virginia, to cover its John Henry Days festival and the unveiling of the United States Postal Service's John Henry stamp. Sutter hasn't devoted much thought to American mythology lately, or to the epic struggle of man vs. machine, or to anything else besides padding his expense account and cadging free drinks. Still, our hero is engaged in a private contest of his own--a kind of junket jag, in which he plans to attend a public relations event every single day. Alas, this journalistic obstacle course threatens to eradicate Sutter's soul, just as the folkloric steam shovel eradicated John Henry's body. Whitehead cuts back and forth between eras and exploits. And what begins as a media-saturated satire soon turns into a jazzy, expansive meditation on man, machine, nature, race, history, myth, and pop culture--in short, on America, as expressed through the story of (who else?) a former slave.Following on the heels of Whitehead's widely praised debut, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days won't disappoint anyone who delighted in the first book's wonderfully quirky writing or its complex allegories of race. The historical set pieces here dazzle, and the author casts a withering eye on our media-driven culture... --Mary Park--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ... Read more

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J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer--a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge. But when he begins to choke on a piece of prime rib at a press dinner, shadows from the past are summoned forth and he leaves the mountain a changed man. Colson Whitehead is the author of the critically acclaimed, QPB New Voices Award-winning novel, The Intuitionist. Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez, John Henry Days is both an ingenious retelling of the American legend of John Henry and a fascinating look into the world of contemporary journalism. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by African American Review on December 22, 2007. The length of the article is 11218 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An end of Southern history: the down-home quests of Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead.(Critical essay)
Author: William Ramsey
Publication: African American Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2007
Publisher: African American Review
Volume: 41Issue: 4Page: 769(17)

Article Type: Critical essay

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J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer--a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge. But when he begins to choke on a piece of prime rib at a press dinner, shadows from the past are summoned forth and he leaves the mountain a changed man. Colson Whitehead is the author of the critically acclaimed, QPB New Voices Award-winning novel, The Intuitionist. Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez, John Henry Days is both an ingenious retelling of the American legend of John Henry and a fascinating look into the world of contemporary journalism. ... Read more