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Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America, exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial institutions, and political parties. Neoliberal Cities offers new scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social movements, and the market.
America
America: An Anthology collects pieces from François Busnel’s bestselling French magazine of literature and politics that seeks to chronicle Donald Trump’s presidency from the perspectives of Francophone and English-speaking novelists, journalists, and public intellectuals. Busnel is a major literary celebrity in France. Since 2008, he has hosted and produced La Grande Librairie , a weekly prime-time television program for which he interviews French and international writers, and which boasts an audience of five to seven hundred thousand viewers. Known in French as a mook (a book-magazine), America was conceived by Busnel in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. An avid Americanophile, Busnel wanted to collect the insights and analyses on four years of Trump from some of the most celebrated writers from the United States and the Francophone world in a form that would act both as “a map of America [and] also a memoir of its time.” Each issue sells around 40,000 copies in France. The anthology contains pieces from some of France’s bestselling writers—including Leïla Slimani on #MeToo, Joël Dicker on Yellowstone National Park, Alice Zeniter on the empty glitter of Las Vegas, Philippe Claudel on life among the Amish, and Philippe Besson on a road trip through the American heartland—as well as the work of many award-winning translators, including Sam Taylor, Sandra Smith, Rachael Small, Emma Ramadan, and Kate Deimling. La Grande Librairie is devoted to the celebration of literature and is the most influential program in France in terms of book sales. Now in its twelfth season, Busnel has already hosted special episodes this year on Patrick Modiano, James Ellroy, and Vanessa Springora, author of the instant number one bestseller Le Consentement . Busnel was also extensively quoted in a major New York Times article on the publication of Springora’s book, which exposes the hypocrisy and corruption of French literary publishing. He is a powerful voice for reform and resistance in a generally traditional publishing landscape. America has already been the subject of several pieces that have introduced the magazine to English readers, including a New Yorker piece by Lauren Collins from October 2017 and a more recent piece on Lit Hub by Olivia Snaije in November 2019. Individual issues of the magazine have also sneakily appeared in episodes of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale . We are hoping to bring Busnel to the United States for appearances in conjunction with the French Cultural Services, including the annual Festival Albertine in November. There will be many opportunities for op-eds and related coverage around the 2020 election, and we will also pitch him for profiles as a major literary figure to know. We will also undertake a large buzz mailing to spread the word to major American Francophiles.
Country Acres and Cul-de-Sacs
<P>In 1938, the first year of its publication, Connecticut Circle magazine covered the opening of the Merritt Parkway in June, a devastating hurricane in September, and a transformative election in November that saw Raymond Baldwin replace Governor Wilbur Cross on the brink of WWII. Covering the news, recreation, literary figures, and politicians, and above all—the achievements and products of the state, Connecticut Circle entertained, promoted, and projected the image of a bustling state with more than its share of creative citizens and renowned institutions of higher learning. Its readership included not only proud Nutmeggers, but potential tourists, and more than a few Mr. and Mrs. Blandings contemplating—the state's board of realtors hoped—a potential move from New York City to an ancient colonial homestead made newly accessible via the Merritt Parkway or the New Haven Railroad. The magazine was saturated with ads and articles that presaged the state's residential (and suburban) future, and people and events of this dramatic time come alive in this large collection of articles from Connecticut Circle magazine, as Connecticut defines itself for the modern era. With an illuminating introduction and context-setting headnotes for its thirteen sections, this volume provides a wealth of fascinating articles for anyone seeking to reminisce, and understand the values that pushed Connecticut into the postwar world.</P>
BAX 2018
<P>Best American Experimental Writing 2018,&#160;guest-edited by Myung Mi Kim, is the fourth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of writers and artists culled from both established authors—like Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Don Mee Choi, M&#243;nica de la Torre, Layli Long Soldier, and Simone White—as well as new and unexpected voices, including Clickhole.com,&#160;BAX 2018&#160;presents an expansive view of today's experimental and high-energy writing practices. A perfect gift for discerning readers as well as an important classroom tool,&#160;Best American Experimental Writing 2018&#160;is a vital addition to the American literary landscape.</P>
In the Air
<P>This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living presence of the «lyric» in its capacity to sing of the human predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded contributors, including Ben Lerner, Michael Snediker, Marjorie Perloff, and Charles Altieri, explore Gizzi's poetry for its embodiment of an American tradition—extending the poetics of Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst others—while also exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility, perpetuating a new grammar and syntax to capture our place in the world today. Each essayist, in turn, works through close-readings of some of the most important poems of our times, enriching our understanding of a poetry of the mind which never loses track of what it means to feel.</P><P><B>Hardcover is un-jacketed.</B></P>
Sisters of Tomorrow
<P>For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about «boys and their toys,» pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. Continuing this tradition, Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by genre luminaries, including author C. L. Moore, artist Margaret Brundage, and others who were well known in their day, including poet Julia Boynton Green, science journalist L. Taylor Hansen, and editor Mary Gnaedinger. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. Yaszek and Sharp's critical annotation and author biographies link women's work in the early science fiction community to larger patterns of feminine literary and cultural production in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. In a concluding essay, the award-winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan considers such work in relation to the history of women in science and engineering and to the contemporary science fiction community itself.</P>
Rare Light
<P><B>Winner of the Ruth Emery Award (2018)</B></P><P>Rare Light is a collection of essays exploring little known facets of the life and career of a major American Impressionist painter. J. Alden Weir (1852–;1919) painted some of his finest canvases while living in Windham in eastern Connecticut's picturesque «Quiet Corner,» and this rural location played a crucial role in Weir's artistic development. The four essays that comprise this book offer in-depth contextual information about the architecture, culture, environment, and history of the region, allowing us to see Connecticut as it appeared in Weir's lifetime. Interweaving photos, paintings, and letters—some never before published—Rare Light documents the artist's sense of Windham as a place for social gatherings, physical and psychic rest, and art making. Taken together, the essays celebrate the interconnectedness of art, architecture, family, history, and place. Includes essays by Charles Burlingham Jr., Rachel Carley, Anne E. Dawson, and Jamie Eves.</P>
The Sentient Archive
<P>The Sentient Archive gathers the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. Its twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, and illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Marcia B. Siegel, Jenn Joy, Alain Platel, Catherine J. Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andr&#233; Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.</P><P><BR><B>Hardcover is un-jacketed.</B></P>
BAX 2016
<P>BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing is the third volume of this annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest-edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Sina Queyras, Tan Lin, Christian B&#246;k, Myung Mi Kim, Juliana Spahr, Samuel R. Delany, and even Barack Obama—as well as emerging voices. Intended to provoke lively conversation and debate, Best American Experimental Writing is an ideal literary anthology for contemporary classroom settings.</P>
American Poets in the 21st Century
<P>Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work.</P><P>Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young. </P><P><B>Hardcover is un-jacketed.</B></P>