American Romances: Essays
A Nonfiction, 21st Century, Literature book. The essay "Extreme Reading," which is among other things about the subjectivity of...
"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder." --Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth"If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric -- to a pop standard. An homage -- a menage -- to America, exposing what's laid bare in a comic tragic redux. I laughed till it hurt." --Van Dyke Parks, Composer/Arranger"Anyone who can get from the Eucharist, to a Necco Wafer, to the goo beween the Oreo wafers, to the Inquisition, to the goo between the legs of excited young women is a distant sibling of mine. She can dash and she can drift and she is not much interested in the...
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- ISBN: 9780872864986 / 872864987
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It seems to me that the majority of nonfiction falls into two camps: that which is written from a literary standpoint and that which is written like a textbook. What Rebecca Brown does in AMERICAN ROMANCES is she makes the two meet in the middle and crafts one of the most unique books I've ever read. This is not to say I absolutely... Disclaimer first: Rebecca Brown and I are old friends and close friends. We have know each other since about 1975. I have read all of her books, many more than once. That said, this book is a masterpiece. Brown's first book of non-fiction, American Romances is an unsentimental meditation on American culture from Hawthorne (Nathaniel)... The essay "Extreme Reading," which is among other things about the subjectivity of our experience of reading any particular book at one moment in time, is a masterpiece.
