The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories

The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories PDF

Author: Deb Marquart

Publisher: New River Press

Published: 2014-05-07

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0898232929

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Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band—the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not taken on the grandeur they’d envisioned.

The Best in Rock Fiction

The Best in Rock Fiction PDF

Author: June Skinner Sawyers

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780634080289

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Collects works with a rock music theme from various authors, including Sherman Alexie, T.C. Boyle, Roddy Doyle, Pagan Kennedy, and Tom Perrotta.

Racing in the Street

Racing in the Street PDF

Author: June Skinner Sawyers

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-04-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1440684197

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For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction PDF

Author: James Thomas

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0393354717

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A new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro. All of the stories in this book are exceptionally short, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose, but readers say they are easy to appreciate, a pleasure to envision, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal, lyrical and prosaic, here are 135 stories by 89 authors, certain to make you think.

From Curlers to Chainsaws

From Curlers to Chainsaws PDF

Author: Joyce Dyer

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1628952490

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The twenty-three distinguished writers included in From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines invite machines into their lives and onto the page. In every room and landscape these writers occupy, gadgets that both stir and stymie may be found: a Singer sewing machine, a stove, a gun, a vibrator, a prosthetic limb, a tractor, a Dodge Dart, a microphone, a smartphone, a stapler, a No. 1 pencil and, of course, a curling iron and a chainsaw. From Curlers to Chainsaws is a groundbreaking collection of lyrical and illuminating essays about the serious, silly, seductive, and sometimes sorrowful relationships between women and their machines. This collection explores in depth objects we sometimes take for granted, focusing not only on their functions but also on their powers to inform identity. For each writer, the device moves beyond the functional to become a symbolic extension of the writer’s own mind—altering and deepening each woman’s concept of herself.

Fast Break to Line Break

Fast Break to Line Break PDF

Author: Todd Davis

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1609173163

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If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball’s movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating heart of so many neighborhoods and communities in this country and around the world. On the court and on the page, this “poetry in motion” can be a force of change and inspiration, leaving devoted fans wonderstruck.

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update PDF

Author: Susan Anker

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 946

ISBN-13: 0312607555

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Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Real Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this skill is achievable. Anker’s advice, examples, and assignments show the relevance of writing to all aspects of students’ lives, and profiles of former students prove that success is attainable. Like all the books in the Anker series, Real Essays presents writing in logical, manageable increments: step-by-step writing guides and a focus on the "four basics" of each mode of writing keep students from becoming overwhelmed. Real Essays maintains its emphasis on what really matters by focusing on the four most serious errors (fragments, run-ons, subject-verb agreement problems, and verb form problems). Real Essays gives students what they need to succeed in college and become stronger academic writers.

Best American Poetry 2016

Best American Poetry 2016 PDF

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 150112756X

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Collects poems chosen by editor Edward Hirsch as the best of 2016, featuring poets such as Rick Barot, Emily Fragos, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Su.

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two PDF

Author: Philip A. Greasley

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 0253021162

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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Sudden Stories

Sudden Stories PDF

Author: Dinty W. Moore

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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About 135 stories of about 350 words or less, by Gail Galloway Adams, Dimitri Anasasopoulos, Nin Andrews, Jane Armstrong, Michael A. Arnzen, Melissa Gurley Bancks, Aimee Bender, Karen Blomain, David Booth, Tom Bradley, Susannah Breslin, Nickole Brown, Mark Budman, Jotham Burrello, Jennifer Cande, Keith Loren Carter, Jose Chavez, Rita Ciresi, Antonia Clark, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Peter H. Conners, Paola Corso, Chauna Craig, Laurence Davies, Todd Davis, Nicholas DiChario, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Brian Doyle, Denise Duhamel, Janice Eidus, Gary Fincke, Sherrie Flick, Melissa Fraterrigo, Sarah Freligh, Jamey Gallagher, Stephen Gibson, Molly Giles, Michael Griffith, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Lola Haskins, Robin Hemley, William Heyen, Jim Heynen, Brian Hinshaw, Susan Hubbard, Mary Hussmann, Kit Coyne Irwin, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Christine Boyka Kluge, David Kress, Marilyn Krysl, Aimee LaBrie, Gerry LaFemina, Roger Lathbury, Lorraine Lopez, Bret Lott, Liz Mandrell, Peter Markus, Debra Marquart, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, C.M. Mayo, Jane McCafferty, Clint McCown, Melissa G. McCracken, Kathleen McGookey, Robert McGovern, Corey Mesler, Alyce Miller, Ben Miller, Christina Milletti, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Dinty W. Moore, Kirk Nesset, Josip Novakovich, Pamela Painter, Anne Panning, Richard Pearse, Susan Perabo, Ben Percy, Wendy Ring, Josh Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, Geoff Schmidt, Davis Schneiderman, Keith Scribner, Jeremy Sellers, Tyson Sharbaugh, Steven Sherrill, Barry Silesky, Natalia Rachel Singer, Brent Spencer, Lori Ann Stephens, J. David Stevens, Julie Stotz-Ghosh, Virgil Suarez, Philip Terman, Wayne Thomas, Melanie Rae Thon, Anthony Tognazzini, Pam Ullman, Antonio Vallone, Sharon Wahl, Ron Wallace, Michael Waters, Gabriel Welsch, Janet Wondra, Allen Woodman, Angus Woodward, and Ronder Thomas Young.