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Tom Spanbauer
published by Grove Press
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The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
is an American epic of the old West for our own times -- a novel huge
in its imaginative scope and daring in its themes.The narrator is Shed,
or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy who makes his living at
the Indian Head Hotel in the little turn-of-the-century town of
Excellent, Idaho. The imperious Ida Richilieu is Shed's employer, the
town's mayor, and the mistress and owner of this outrageously pink
whorehouse. Together with the beautiful prostitute Alma Hatch, and the
philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy Dellwood Barker, this
collection of misfits and outcasts make up the core of Shed's eccentric
family. And although laced with the ugliness and cruelty of the
frontier West -- Shed is raped by the same man who then murders the
woman he thinks is his mother, and the Mormon townspeople bring a fiery
end to Ida's raucous way of life -- the love and acceptance that tie
this family together provide the true heart of this novel. The Man Who
Fell in Love with the Moon is a beautifully told, mythic tale that is
as well a profound meditation on sexualty,race and man's relationship
to himself and the natural world.
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Chuck Palahniuk
published by: Norton
Description The first novel by a writer who has become a cult figure,
Fight Club gets deep inside the world of a rage-filled young Everyman.
Made into a film with Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.
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Tom Spanbauer
published by Grove Press
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The long-awaited follow-up to Tom Spanbauer?s enchanting The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon , In The City Of Shy Hunters is a novel ten years in the making, praised as ?utterly fresh?a haunting and undeniably powerful work? by Kirkus Reviews .
Set against the urban landscape of Manhattan in the 1980?s, the novel
offers a vivid portrait of New York City through the eyes of William Of
Heaven who comes to the city as an innocent and leaves in a blaze of
glory as the city ends up destroying the people he loves. In The City Of Shy Hunters
opens in 1983, when William Parker (aka William Of Heaven) moves from
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Manhattan, desperate to escape the
provincialism of the small Western towns in which he has spent his
entire life. Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his
sexuality, Will has been afraid of New York his entire life.
Will moves to New York to find a cherished boyhood friend, Charlie
2Moons. As boys on the reservation, Will and Charlie made a sacred
promise to one another. A pact of blood. Yet, due to a twist of fate no
man can believe and only God could bring about, the promise was broken.
As the novel begins, Will is taking the first steps of his dark journey
to find his lost friend. On his journey, Will learns the value
of embracing one?s fears, finding himself surrounded for the first time
by people who understand and celebrate his quirks and flaws. Along the
way, he becomes wrapped up in one of the most unforgettable romances in
literature, a love affair with a volatile, six-foot-five African
American drag queen and performance artist named Rose. As Will
falls in love with Rose, as Will continues his search for Charlie
2Moons, Will grows into himself. He must watch as his friends are taken
from him as AIDS grows from a rumor into a full-scale epidemic.
Meanwhile, tension is also mounting between the police and the
squatters in his local park?until a vicious riot breaks out, providing
Will with the opportunity for a heroic, transcendent act that will
repay the city for returning Charlie to him. The reader is left shaken,
fulfilled, and changed. In The City Of Shy Hunters
is a work of rare beauty, a love story, a postmodern Pygmalian, about
the city and how it allows us to lose, and find, ourselves. Magical,
funny, and gorgeous in its passion for humanity, it is an unforgettable
novel.
?Everything is risked in the novel?s vividly
imagined telling through the extravagant voice of Will Parker?Spanbauer
skillfully teases out the genuine complexity of human love.? The Washington Post ?This winter novels set in New York take on a particular resonance, and Tom Spanbauer?s In The City Of Shy Hunters (Atlantic) is one of the finest ever written. The cult author of The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon
here extends his romance with cowboys to embrace those of the urban
variety. His portrait of Manhattan is racy, witty, profound and
genuinely mythic. He also succeeds in drawing of portrait of AIDS among
the artists that is totally free of the clich?s and excesses of the
genre. The novel was shamefully ignored on its publication, but its
extraordinary insights should engage readers for many year to come.?
Michael Arditti , London.
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Joanna Rose
published by Scribner
Family life in the counterculture of the sixties, revealed through the eyes of a child.
"A gloriously descriptive novel, packed with colorful details of the dream the era of 'free love' left behind." Redbook
"Tom Spanbauer and Dangerous Writing led me into the story I wanted to
write, and showed me how to engage with my own sense of language. It is
about love and respect, of humanity, of sentences, and of where we all
come from."--Joanna Rose
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Jennifer Lauck
published by Pocket Books
A memoir of a childhood particular to the family story of seventies America.
"...one girl's complicated and almost unbelievable childhood, reclaimed in profound triumph." Kirkus Reviews
"At the table with Tom Spanbauer and Dangerous Writers, I am two
things. Afraid and in awe. Great teaching and greater learning happens
in the magic heart space he creates."
--Jennifer Lauck
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Chuck Palahniuk
published by Norton
A story of identity and re-invention of the self, the third novel
published by this American cult writer, this novel was written before Fight Club . Invisible Mosters
takes readers on a wild ride through the medicine cabinets of wealthy
homes, the intimate details of sex change operations, and the nuances
of our culture's obession with appearance
"Stylish, bitchy beach read" The Village Voice
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Ken Foster
published by William Morrow
A collection of short stories linked by a narrator who looks at the world from slightly off to the side.
"Darkly comic and dead accurate..hitting the bull's eye from
increasingly odd angles and greater and greater distances." Michael
Cunningham, author of The Hours
"Everything I know about living I learned by writing dangerously and
everything I know about writing I learned from Dangerous Writers."--Ken
Foster
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Mitch Luckett
published by Media Weavers
A particularly imaginative murder mystery set in the Pacific Northwest but going far beyond the bounds of any genre.
"...a cross between Carl Hiassen and Edward Abby...a magically
realistic whodunit . . ." Mike Houck, Urban naturalist and editor of Wild in the City, a guide to Portland (OR) natural areas
"Everything I know about style, truth, humor and heartbreak, I learned in Dangerous Writing."--Mitch Luckett
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Author Amy Schutzer
published by Calyx Books
A love story that weaves the pasts of two young women in an imaginative and dreamy mix of memory and story.
"A poetic and authentic exploration of heartbreak and healing." Elen Bass, author of The Courage to Heal
"Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writers pushed me to choose falling into the
bones of words, their keening, their messy loneliness and their
resolute beauty. Dangerous Writers taught with the whole body engaged,
the sense as important as the sentences, the heart understanding that
complacency has no place in the unfolding of words."-- Amy Schutzer
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Kate Gray
published by Blue Light Press
Winning the Blue Light Chapbook Contest in 1999, Where She Goes
is a small collection of poems dealing with the wisdom a rower might
glean from mornings spent on the Willamette River. These poems deal
with the intersection of the natural world, love and loss. The second
half of the book is a series of interconnecting poems tracing a path
one rower takes upstream.
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