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From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream
Another mammoth anthology by The Unbearables, downtown New York s "drinking collective with a writing problem," assaying the decline and fall of the world's recent foremost superpower, from 9/11 to the rise of the Trumpist "moronarchy."
584 pages, Paperback
Published October 18, 2017
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May 22, 2018
from my review of this anthology:
Despair has replaced hope in America. Which doesn’t mean activists are sackcloth-and-ashing it, but those who work for equity are discouraged. “American dream”? The elimination, a few years ago, of stop-and-frisk, a racist go-to of New York City cops, was going to suffice as a dream achieved until grander dreams of equality were crossed off collective bucket lists. Lefties dream big, but they understand the implausibility of utopia, and the plausibility of effective movement toward change. From each according to each they live with open eyes and want to at least “fail better,” per Beckett. They are the writers and artists included in From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (Autonomedia, $19.95, 584 pages, paper). They are the Unbearables.
From Somewhere to Nowhere is the sixth anthology from the Unbearables. A handsomely produced and thoughtfully arranged tome, this book is, in effect, a collection of weaponized creativity; a mammoth arsenal of poems, stories, essay and art which takes shots at the pomp and outrageous circumstances of late-empire capitalism, racism, sexism and gentrification. Who better to do so than than the opinionated yet self-unimportant mongrel hoard rising from the depths of Bohemian New York—the Unbearables. Ever in flux, this loose assemblage interprets the crazy of our times in bars, bookstores and on the page. READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW HERE: http://www.tribes.org/web/2017/12/7/f...
Despair has replaced hope in America. Which doesn’t mean activists are sackcloth-and-ashing it, but those who work for equity are discouraged. “American dream”? The elimination, a few years ago, of stop-and-frisk, a racist go-to of New York City cops, was going to suffice as a dream achieved until grander dreams of equality were crossed off collective bucket lists. Lefties dream big, but they understand the implausibility of utopia, and the plausibility of effective movement toward change. From each according to each they live with open eyes and want to at least “fail better,” per Beckett. They are the writers and artists included in From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (Autonomedia, $19.95, 584 pages, paper). They are the Unbearables.
From Somewhere to Nowhere is the sixth anthology from the Unbearables. A handsomely produced and thoughtfully arranged tome, this book is, in effect, a collection of weaponized creativity; a mammoth arsenal of poems, stories, essay and art which takes shots at the pomp and outrageous circumstances of late-empire capitalism, racism, sexism and gentrification. Who better to do so than than the opinionated yet self-unimportant mongrel hoard rising from the depths of Bohemian New York—the Unbearables. Ever in flux, this loose assemblage interprets the crazy of our times in bars, bookstores and on the page. READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW HERE: http://www.tribes.org/web/2017/12/7/f...
April 5, 2018
Phenomenal anthology from a mix of writers! Kudos to editors Ron Kolm, Shalom Neuman & Jim Feast
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