First of the Year: 2009: Volume II

ISBN-13: 9781138523609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 307 str.

Benj Demott

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This is the second volume in the First of the Year Series

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Part I: Home Is Where We Start
Dennis Myers � Winter Light
Irving Louis Horowitz � A Child's Vision of the Great Depression
Roxane Beth Johnson � The Prose of the World
Tom DeMott � Manilow or Monk
Judy Oppenheimer � Showing Out
Mark Rudd � "Something About Compassion"
Benj DeMott � Between Two Smiles
Uri Avnery � The Boss Has Gone Mad
Paul Berman � Rational Exuberance
Fredric Smoler � Two Nations
Mike Rose � Everyday People in Never-Never Land
Natalie Estrellita � Anguish As A Second Language
Natalie Estrellita � Touch Me
Alison Stone � The Lovers
Bongani Madondo � Makeba in Memoriam
Ben Kessler � R. Kelly's Political Gift
Armond White � Springsteen's Magic Realism
David Golding � God Stretch America: James Baldwin & Barack Obama
Benjamin DeMott � The Uses of James Baldwin
Samba Gadjigo � "All Sweat": Ousmane Sembene on Art/Life
First of the Month � Radical History Channel
I Had a Dream � Joe Richey 96
Judy Oppenheimer � Tight Connection 101
Part II: First Draft of History II
Amiri Baraka � You Gotta Move
Wesley Hogan � Warm Regards & Power Chords
Ty Geltmaker � My February Epiphany
Benj DeMott � Cross the Border, Close the Gap
Ben Kessler � Stuff White People Like
Judy Oppenheimer � Orpheus Descending
Stephan Talty � Buffalo's Black and White Ball
Mike Rose � School's Out for the G.O.P.
Judy Oppenheimer � Feelings
Wesley Hogan & Dirk Philipsen � Notes from the State of Virginia
Amiri Baraka � American Junkies
Scott Spencer � American Socialism 2.0
Benj DeMott � If Buddy Met Poppy
Dennis Myers � Apocalypse Wow!
Fredric Smoler � Reality Check
Donna Gaines � America Alcoholica
Natalie Estrellita � Presidential Hair
Tom Smucker � Calvin and The Rapture
Donna Gaines � Living Sober
Amiri Baraka � We Are Already In The Future!
Lawrence Goodwyn � The Ground We Stand On
Part III: Guided Trips
Charles O'Brien � At Ease in Azania
Bongani Madondo � South to a Very Old Place
Michael Lydon � A House of Books
Benj DeMott � The Uses of Benjamin DeMott
Fredric Smoler � Against the Current
Charles O'Brien � To Criticize the Critic
Bob Levin � How I Became a Writer (Pt. 1)
Philip Levine � Shadow Boxing
Peter Lamborn Wilson � My Summer Vacation in Afghanistan
Nat Finkelstein � Kandahar 1971
Michael L. Schmicker � Hem, Maugham and Me
Bruce Jackson � David's Choice
Bob Levin � Pariah-Time
Armond White � Genius � Not!
Vincent G. Harding � Midwiving a New America
Part IV: Last Call & Response
Charles O'Brien � Where Hope Ends
Richard Torres � Witness
Contributors' Notes

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Benj DeMott