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"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors
Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into
William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized
as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously
overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." -Larry
McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical
Companion The essays in this collection make a case for regarding
William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and
important living author in the US. His oeuvre includes not only
outstanding work in numerous literary genres, but also global
reportage, ethical treatises, paintings, photographs, and many
other productions. His reputation as a daring traveler and his
fascination with life on the margins have earned him an
extra-literary renown unequaled in our time. Perhaps most
importantly, his work is exceptional in relation to the literary
moment. Vollmann is a member of a group of authors who are
responding to the skeptical ironies of postmodernism with a
reinvigoration of fiction's affective possibilities and moral
sensibilities, but he stands out even among this cohort for his
prioritization of moral engagement, historical awareness, and
geopolitical scope. Included in this book in addition to twelve
scholarly critical essays are reflections on Vollmann by many of
his peers, confidantes, and collaborators, including Jonathan
Franzen, James Franco, and Michael Glawogger. With a preface by
Larry McCaffery and an afterword by Michael Hemmingson, this book
offers readings of most of Vollmann's works, includes the first
critical engagements with several key titles, and introduces a
range of voices from international Vollmann scholarship.
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors
Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into
William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized
as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously
overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." -Larry
McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical
Companion The essays in this collection make a case for regarding
William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and
important living author in the US. His oeuvre includes not only
outstanding work in numerous literary genres, but also global
reportage, ethical treatises, paintings, photographs, and many
other productions. His reputation as a daring traveler and his
fascination with life on the margins have earned him an
extra-literary renown unequaled in our time. Perhaps most
importantly, his work is exceptional in relation to the literary
moment. Vollmann is a member of a group of authors who are
responding to the skeptical ironies of postmodernism with a
reinvigoration of fiction's affective possibilities and moral
sensibilities, but he stands out even among this cohort for his
prioritization of moral engagement, historical awareness, and
geopolitical scope. Included in this book in addition to twelve
scholarly critical essays are reflections on Vollmann by many of
his peers, confidantes, and collaborators, including Jonathan
Franzen, James Franco, and Michael Glawogger. With a preface by
Larry McCaffery and an afterword by Michael Hemmingson, this book
offers readings of most of Vollmann's works, includes the first
critical engagements with several key titles, and introduces the
work of several foreign Vollmann scholars to American audiences.
A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's
masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword and cover art by
James Franco A Penguin Classic A young man awakens to selfhood and
to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his
upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's beloved novel
Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet
seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his
precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a
search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant
psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this
translation, which together with James Franco's personal and
inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse's widely
influential coming-of-age novel. For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking
knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." -Kenneth Turan, film
critic for the Los Angeles Times Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the
first organization focused on the writer's creative contribution to
film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings,
panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers
and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight
from masters, as well as refreshing veterans with new ideas. To
extend the festival's reach, AFF produces On Story, a television
series currently airing on PBS-affiliated stations and streaming
online that presents footage of high-caliber artists talking
candidly and provocatively about the art and craft of screenwriting
and filmmaking, often using examples from their own films. On
Story-Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films presents
renowned, award-winning screenwriters and filmmakers discussing
their careers and the stories behind the production of their iconic
films such as L.A. Confidential, Thelma & Louise, Groundhog
Day, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Silence of the Lambs, In the Name
of the Father, Apollo 13, and more. In their own lively words
transcribed from interviews and panel discussions, Ron Howard,
Callie Khouri, Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally, Jenny Lumet, Harold
Ramis, and others talk about creating stories that resonate with
one's life experiences or topical social issues, as well as how to
create appealing characters and bring them to life. Their insights,
production tales, and fresh, practical, and proven advice make this
book ideal for film lovers, screenwriting students, and filmmakers
and screenwriters seeking inspiration.
There is a vision of power at the center of James Franco's first
chapbook of poems, Strongest of the Litter. Power here is both
generative and frightening, self-consuming and bracing. It is the
artist's power of self-making. These poems, thoroughly beautiful
and spare, have the texture of contending angles. Authenticity can
be achieved only through different voices: in an investigation of
the range and strength of American art, in homage to Williams
Carlos Williams, in awe at the cost to American actors of their art
(notably Taylor, Clift, De Niro and Brando), in the celebration and
limitation of Kowalski love -- "I'm a raging Kowalski whose /
Temper can be measured by // How little I can give. / How abusive
my reticence." Pervasive in these eloquent poems is the power of
memory, the collective memory of Hollywood and specific memories of
the poet's own past.
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California
teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the
astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
"Palo Alto" is the debut of a surprising and powerful new
literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of
place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces
the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with
vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another,
and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In
"Lockheed" a young woman's summer--spent working a dull
internship--is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of
violence at a house party. In "American History" a high school
freshman attempts to impress a girl during a classroom skit with a
realistic portrayal of a slave owner--only to have his feigned
bigotry avenged. In "I Could Kill Someone," a lonely teenager buys
a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins
to wonder about his bully's own inner life.
These linked stories, stark, vivid, and disturbing, are a
compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
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