Barbie is an American icon. But Barbie becomes a problem when the adult fantasy collides with the child's fantasy? All that misplaced Barbie angst of our youth, all the childhood conditioning, and the adult results are revealed at last in Mondo Barbie.
Titillating, fun, and sad--Marilyn is all of that in this unique anthology from the people who brought you Mondo Elvis and Mondo Barbie. Mondo Marilyn brings together such notable authors as Clive Barker, Judy Grahn, Charles Bukowski, John Rechy, and Doris Grumbach, among others, to look at her life, her death, and her life after death.
This is a collection of stories and poems about Elvis features the writing of Alice Walker, Greil Marcus, Nick Cave, Mark Childress, Diane Wakoski, Janice Eidus, Pagan Kennedy, Howard Waldrop, and others.
As a young writer, Vidal joined a salon of literati and aristocrats hosted in New York by Peggy Guggenheim. He met Andre Gide and George Santayana, began a lifelong friendship with Paul Newman, got Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt to compaign for him when he ran for Congress, and gave presidential candidate JFK the idea for the Peace Corps. To ...
This issue of an international literary magazine, based in the Washington, D.C. area, features a host of poets and writers, including Nin Andrews, Doreen Baingana, Laurel Ann Bogen, Neil Boyack, and more.
At the heart of her non-career, Cordelia, the "greatest unpublished novelist of her generation", finds that she is dying of lung cancer. Narrated by herself--during the increasingly short intervals when she is conscious--"Death in Equality" provides an "autoerotic pieta", a moving account of one woman's life, death, and dreams.
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