Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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This is a love story. A story about embracing people you can't have, music you can't contain, movies you can't make money off of, and people too damaged by the sort of self-destructive brilliance that makes great art. We worship these people from afar, but are rarely in the car or the alley with them, mopping up teeth, realizing what the day to day cost of a true lack of compromise really is. This book captures that feeling, as well as a period of time when punk was vital, the Corporatocracy was presumed to be science fiction, and a path of resistance was easier to identify. Intellectual energy wrestles with a coming-of-age lust. Fiction throws elbows with memoir. New York pins L.A. to the tarmac. The notion of what "punk" might actually mean, as an adjective and an ethos far beyond the music, ultimately wins.
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Banned for Life by D. R. Haney
headsnap, December 30, 2010
This is a love story. A story about embracing people you can't have, music you can't contain, movies you can't make money off of, and people too damaged by the sort of self-destructive brilliance that makes great art. We worship these people from afar, but are rarely in the car or the alley with them, mopping up teeth, realizing what the day to day cost of a true lack of compromise really is. This book captures that feeling, as well as a period of time when punk was vital, the Corporatocracy was presumed to be science fiction, and a path of resistance was easier to identify. Intellectual energy wrestles with a coming-of-age lust. Fiction throws elbows with memoir. New York pins L.A. to the tarmac. The notion of what "punk" might actually mean, as an adjective and an ethos far beyond the music, ultimately wins.