This collection derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth.At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the...
This collection derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique ta...
The Exagggerations of Peter Prince is an adventure for the reader and for the hero. It is a knot of energies, not an inert impress of letters and images on paper. Katz's novel novel--though there were hints and intimations, pages of plagiarism-by-anticipation as far back as Sterne, a scattering of models both to keep in mind and to ruthlessly banish, that had come before--was something entirely new, a rearticulation of the Form of the Novel to provide a channel for new ideas arising from new views, new needs, and new crises. It is a sublime, endlessly inventive metafictional...
The Exagggerations of Peter Prince is an adventure for the reader and for the hero. It is a knot of energies, not an inert impress of lett...
By founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears-a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, had affairs with famous female folk singers, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix-comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor.
By founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears-a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, had affairs with ...
