In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear. From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature.
In his critically acclaimed epic first novel, Jay Cantor, author of Krazy Kat and Great Neck, draws on history, myth, and his own prodigious imagination to take on the life and death of revolutionary icon Che Guevara. In his now famous progress through modern times, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the scion of a liberal Argentine family, abandoned a medical career to become a revolutionary. A fiery comrade of Fidel Castro’s who joined him in overthrowing the Cuban government of Baptista, Che later broke with Castro to lead a guerrilla movement in Bolivia. As the novel charts Che’s bold evolution, it also offers an incisive look at Latin America’s revolutionary struggles, an exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, and a brilliant exegesis of the psychology of radical activisim.
Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and Krazy witness the mega-brick explosion in the desert, Krazy becomes depressed, and refuses to perform. To coax her back to work so they can regain their lost limelight, Ignatz invents his own brand of psychotherapy, orchestrates her kidnapping, and tries to seduce Krazy with promises of stardom from a Hollywood producer. As the mouse confronts the Kat with bewildering new concepts like sex, death, and politics, Ignatz and Krazy begin yearning to become round, for a fullness of body and spirit beyond their two-dimensional realm. Forming an altogether witty and winning counterpoint to George Herriman’s classic comic strip, Jay Cantor’s kinetic novel has become a classic in its own right, one of those masterpieces that creates its own unforgettable universe.
A thought-provoking, sometimes heartbreaking sequence of stories based on a group of real people held together by their love of Franz Kafka. Here friends, fans, and lovers find themselves haunted by the death of the great author. Imbued with a gravitas and dark irony that recall Kafka’s own work, these stories nonetheless also bear the singular imaginary stamp and the keen psychological and emotional insight that have marked all of Jay Cantor’s writing.
Un manifeste? Un roman? Un catalogue? Les trois à la fois! Séguier et Plessis inventent un nouveau genre littéraire pour accompagner les premières manifestations artistiques d'un nouvel espace culturel à Paris: Le Laboratoire. Niche est une fiction fondée sur une réalité: la création d'œuvres d'art et de design catalysée par la rencontre de scientifiques et d'artistes au Laboratoire. Le plasticien Fabrice Hyper a réellement travaillé avec le scientifique du MIT Robert Langer, le designer Mathieu Lehanneur avec le scientifique de l'université de Harvard David Edwards. Leurs expositions ouvrent au public en octobre 2007.Illustré par les photographies de l'artiste New-Yorkais Daniel Faust, Niche raconte une exploration à la fois artistique, écologique et cellulaire de l'intelligence, et s'éloigne du monde réel pour mieux le recréer.
As a young married man with a child, Jay Reed joined the Air Force. Getting divorced, remarried, and divorced again, Jay finally found what he was looking for in his writing, photography and exploring the outdoors.
Describes a group of friends, black and white, growing up radical amid the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s, following them from their 1960 sixth-grade class from Great Neck, the impact of the murder of an older brother of one of them during Freedom Summer, and their involvement in the civil rights and peace movements. 25,000 first printing.
Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and other Coconino County residents travel to Alamoqordo, New Mexico, where Krazy is awed by a giant tower and Ignatz falls for J. Robert Oppenheimer
A fictionalized account of the life and death of revolutionary Che Guevara details his growth as a radical, his role as a military and ideological leader of the Cuban revolution, and his death in the mountains of Bolivia
What causes terrorism? After his fiancee dies during the 9/11 attacks, this question plagues Aaron. It makes him give up his career as a doctor to become an interrogator/torturer at Guantanamo Bay. Overseeing experiments of how meme theory might program people to becoming suicide bombers, he meets Ahmed.
This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times during and after the American Revolution. The letters showcase Sarah as a devoted wife and mother who also helped further her husband's political career. Their correspondence reveals the abiding love of husband and wife, their concern for their children, the dangers and difficulties of travel, descriptions of the lands they visited and events they witnessed, as well as a sense of the effort it took to survive in the era even with the buffer of wealth. The book includes essays on the Jay and Livingston families, family trees, and information about the character and appearance of both husband and wife,and other topics. Importantly, there are textual bridges between the letters where necessary.
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