About the Book
In the 1600s Daniel Defoe published what's regarded as the first work of literary nonfiction. Chronicling the upheaval of our own time, writers created a new literary language combining state-of-the-art journalism and literary writing. This collection, a swooping narrative from the magazine of the same name, offers a roadmap pointing to the future, full of humor, politics, and pathos. Contributors include Steve Erickson, Mikal Gilmore, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Thrity Umrigar, Ted Mooney, Sarah Chayes, J.C. Hallman, Tim Page, Beth Alvarado, Lauren Camp, Maxine Chernoff, Gregory McNamee, Matt Cooper, Michael Brown, Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Paul Cullum, Keith Donnell Jr., David Galef, Jami Macarty, Mike Medberry, Christine Kiessling, Alberto Montero, Paul E Nelson, David Weir, Ben Quick, Stephen Derwent Partington, Stephen Pain, Hailey Nicole Warner, Herb Randall, William Thatcher Dowell, Michelle Browder.
About the Author :
Susan Zakin is best-known as the author of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! And the Environmental Movement. She has covered politics and the environment for national magazines. In 2001, a Senator John Heinz Fellow- ship for Environmental Writing took her to Madagascar. Her subsequent articles and essays on African politics and conservation are collected in 2017's Waiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. A novel, Libertyville, is forthcoming in 2025. Brian Cullman is a writer and musician based in New York City. A three- time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for writings on music, he is a regular contributor to The Paris Review. Cullman has written for Rolling Stone, Creem, The Village Voice, and Details. He produced the soundtrack to the documentary Gypsy Caravan, and scored Padre Nuestro, winner of the grand jury prize for best U.S. drama at the 2008 Sundance Festival. His CDs include Winter Clothes, The Opposite of Time, and All Fires the Fire. He is a founding member of Lisbon-based group Rua das Pretas, which he described as a United Nations of talents: "...samba players from Brazil; fado singers from Lisbon; bass players from the world of jazz; singers from Cape Verde; Ameri- cans like me who fell in love with the sea and the cool night air..." is the author of ten novels: Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Shadowbahn. He also has written three books about politics and popular culture: Leap Year, American Nomad and American Stutter. Numerous editions have been published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Over the years he has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Conjunctions, the New York Times Magazine and other publications and journals, and his work has been widely anthologized. For twelve years he was editor and co-founder of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. He has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and twice has been nominated for the National Magazine Award for criticism and commentary. In July 2021 the University Press of Mississippi published Conversations With Steve Erickson as part of a series that has included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez.
