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Awake!: A Reader for the Sleepless
by
Steven Lee Beeber (Goodreads Author) ,
Rose Gowen (Goodreads Author), Davy Rothbart (Goodreads Author), Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author), Arthur Bradford (Goodreads Author), Priscella Becker, Jonathan Ames, Howard Cruse
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Millions can’t sleep; millions more sleep with those who can’t sleep. This collection is ideal for both the casual light sleeper and the dedicated insomniac (as well as their bedmates), delighting and distracting night owls with irresistible fiction, articles, blogs, art, photographs, comics, and more. Previously unpublished stories by Aimee Bender and Arthur Bradford; pit...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
July 28th 2007
by Soft Skull Press
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An eclectic free-wheeling trip through the endless confusion, compulsions and complexes that those of us who find ourselves counting ceiling tiles late at night know all too well.
Feb 01, 2009
Melanie
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At night I am an insomniac...at daytime I want to sleep and dream.
Maybe if I read this book at daytime I get tired so I can sleep at night.
Maybe if I read this book at daytime I get tired so I can sleep at night.
I've only read the pieces by friends Bud Parr and Ed Champion so far, but if the recent reading at KGB Bar is any indication, there's a lot of good stuff in here.
check out the following review -- Not mine, but interesting.
http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2008...
http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2008...
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Collection of poems and short stories. True stories about people living with insomnia. Abstract and amusing.
I'd just like to iterate what a genius Aimee Bender is.
Great theme and writing!
Definitely not a sleeping-aid, this anthology captures the raw, jarring atmosphere of a night awake. The variety of the entries, ranging from fiction, to essays, to cartoons, to pictorials, is a boon for the scattered mind of the insomniac. Some subject matter may be a little abstract for the same, however.
Mostly a snooze. A couple standout pieces, but full of boring rants about how writers can't sleep. I already knew that. And some godawful poetry that I might have secretly written myself in seventh grade.
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