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Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available
for the first time since 1931 Restores a rare but highly
influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical
facsimile edition Provides extensive scholarly commentary,
analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting
the anthology in its broader cultural context Offers the first
collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a 'reading
machine' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob Brown
Includes both Craig Saper's new Introduction and a separate chapter
on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar
of Bob Brown's work as well as an important scholar of experimental
writing, media, publishing, and art This new edition of Bob Brown's
groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been
out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally
published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The
contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude
Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugene Jolas and
Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell
and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford
and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses
and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the
anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential
resource for those interested in print and book history, the
politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading
machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy.
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Houdini (Paperback)
Craig Saper; Foreword by K.A. Wisniewski; Bob Brown
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R139
Discovery Miles 1 390
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Contemporary publishing, e-media, and writing owe much to an unsung
hero who worked in the trenches of the culture industry (for pulp
magazines, Hollywood films, and advertising) and caroused and
collaborated with the avant-garde throughout the first half of the
twentieth century. Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) turned up in
the midst of virtually every significant American literary,
artistic, political, and popular or countercultural movement of his
time-from Chicago's Cliff Dweller's Club to Greenwich Village's
bohemians and the Imagist poets; from the American vanguard
expatriate groups in Europe to the Beats. Bob Brown churned out
pulp fiction and populist cookbooks, created the first movie
tie-ins, and invented a surreal reading machine more than
seventy-five years ahead of e-books. He was a real-life Zelig of
modern culture. With The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown, Craig
Saper disentangles, for the first time, the many lives and careers
of the intriguing figure behind so much of twentieth-century
culture. Saper's lively and engaging yet erudite and subtly
experimental style offers a bold new approach to biography that
perfectly complements his multidimensional subject. Readers are
brought along on a spirited journey with Bob and the Brown
clan-Cora (his mother), Rose (his wife), and Bob, a creative team
who sometimes went by the name of CoRoBo-through globetrotting,
fortune-making and fortune-spending, culture-creating and
culture-exploring adventures. Along the way, readers meet many of
the most important cultural figures and movements of the era and
are witness to the astonishingly prescient vision Brown held of the
future of American cultural life in the digital age. Although Brown
traveled and lived all around the world, he took Manhattan with
him, and his New York City had boroughs around the world.
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