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Infidelity anyone? Vicariously enjoy the unfaithfulness of
twenty-four writers in this anthology, Runnin' Around, subtitled
The Serving House Book of Infidelity. The cover is a black-
and-white Mark Hillringhouse photograph of an appropriately seedy
motel advertising day-rates. However, the content is not seedy at
all, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn, who leads
off with a poem that originally appeared in the New Yorker,
inspiring editors Kennedy and Cummins to solicit eleven poets, two
essayists, and eleven fiction writers to take a turn at telling a
tale of infidelity, be it carnal or spiritual or somewhere in
between. Included is the work of poets Dunn, Jack Ridl, H. L. Hix,
Laura McCullough, Rick Mulkey, Steve Davenport, Renee Ashley, Dan
Turell, Elisabeth Murawski, Flower Conroy, and Mark Hillringhouse,
essays by Rebecca Chace and Minna Proctor, and short stories by
Timmy Waldron, Per Smidl, Duff Brenna, Roisin McLean, Victor
Rangel-Ribeiro, Greg Herriges, Susan Tekulve, Dennis F. Bormann and
Kennedy and Cummins as well. Read it and lust
A man who can't bring himself to return to the apartment of his
failing marriage, a woman spied on by a neighbor, a father
terrified by the four-year- old next door, a boy living in a house
haunted by his mother's madness, a mother whose children are
freezing in a heatless bedroom--the characters in the Stories of
Local Music are unsettled in their own homes, their lives dissonant
and discordant.
The worlds of these stories challenge the realities we think we
inhabit, bending them away from a norm, some just a shade askew,
others warped into a radical strangeness. All confound our
expectations.
Whether on a resort island, on a bus burrowing through the
darkness, disoriented in European cities and villages, fearful at a
lakeside table or on a mountain climb, bewildered in the crypt of
the Vatican or in rooms and landscapes suddenly strange, the people
in these sixteen stories don't know where they are or who they are.
They struggle to locate themselves in their lives.
The Book of Worst Meals contains essays by 25 writers on their
worst culinary experiences, tales of wretched dining in Paris,
Edinburgh, Philadelphia, and throughout the UK, as well as
disastrous holiday meals and the food of failed relationships.
In this timely examination of television and American identity,
Cummins and Gordon take readers on an informed walk through the
changes that TV has already wrought-and those still likely to
confront us. Commercial television in America is less than 60 years
old, yet it has had an enormous impact on what we like, what we do,
what we know, and how we think. A family transplanted from the
1940s to the present day would certainly be stunned by a
fundamentally different world: instead of gathering in the living
room for a shared evening of radio, they would be scattered around
the house to indulge their individual interests on one of a hundred
cable channels; instead of a society with rigid racial and ethnic
divisions, they would see people of different ethnicities in
passionate embraces; and certainly they would see a very different
set of values reflected across the board. They would, in sum, find
themselves in an unrecognizable America, one both reflected in and
shaped by television, a medium that has been shown to have an
unprecedented influence on our lives both for better and for worse.
By focusing on the development of television within the cultural
context that surrounds it, and drawing on such phenomena as quiz
shows, comedy hours, the Kennedy assassination, the Olympics,
sitcoms, presidential ads, political debates, MTV, embedded
journalism, and reality TV, the authors reveal television's impact
on essential characteristics of American life. They cover topics as
diverse as politics, crime, medicine, sports, our perceptions, our
values, our assumptions about privacy, and our unquenchable need
for more "things." In addition, they consider the future of the
medium in the light of theproliferation of programming options, the
prevalence of cameras and receivers in our lives, the growing links
between TV and computers, and the crossed boundaries of television
throughout the world.
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