Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is "downtown" to three institutions: - Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers, - High Desert State Prison, Nevada's largest, newest, and most modern, and - the Sekhmet Temple of Goddess Spirituality, a women's community in the desert. All three are concerned with violence against women. This remarkable combination is the setting for some very confused relations among four protagonists, in a plot modeled on Cervantes and Goethe. They are all musicians, and music maps their gnarly way...
Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is "downtown" to three institutions: - Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in ...
Hyde lives (It's only the well-meaning Jekyll who is dead.) Cloak and cudgel discarded, he is now a suitably smooth operator. But as Mike Tyson observes in the epigraph, "Everybody's got a plan until he gets punched in the mouth."
Hyde lives (It's only the well-meaning Jekyll who is dead.) Cloak and cudgel discarded, he is now a suitably smooth operator. But as Mike Tyson obser...
As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka's 1915 Metamorphosis was a long short story, with an unhappy beginning, middle, and end. In Kafka's Roach, Estrin (along with the Samsa's housemaid) has rescued Gregor from his dusty death under a couch in Prague, schooled him at a Viennese sideshow, and impelled him over the Atlantic to take a crucial role in American history in the twenties, thirties and forties. Gregor (six feet tall, and an ever-improving speaker of English) becomes part of FDR's brain trust,...
As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka's 1915 Metamorphosis ...
