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A Singing Army
Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as “We Shall Overcome” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Her contributions to the Highlander Folk School, a pivotal center of the labor and civil rights movements in the mid-twentieth century, and her work creating the songbook of the labor movement influenced countless figures, from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Despite her outsized impact, Horton’s story is little known. A Singing Army introduces this overlooked figure to the world. Drawing on extensive archival and oral histo...
For Now
“[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.”—NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. For Myles, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.
Survival of the Fittest
One night, seven teenagers wake completely alone and in the dark. Their parents are gone, and it seems everyone on earth has disappeared as well. Worse, the electricity is off. Surrounded by darkness, their differences no longer matter; they are the sole survivors of an alien attack and the last hope for humanity. But in the black of night, can they outrun the hulking creatures with the glowing red eyes? Priya is the exotic girl who says what she thinks. Will was a star athlete before the attack. They find Trevor and Aiyana, the twins; Alex and Ricardo, the tough guys; and finally, Lindsey, the innocent. Together, the seven of them are the last humans on earthbut are they really humans at al...
Warm Western Light
About the Book Henry Wolcott asked a lot of questions, even if he was the only one around to hear them. This inquisitive nature served him well during his distinguished service during the Civil War, and his heroic efforts earned Henry a large plot of land in the burgeoning rangeland of Western Wyoming. The end of the war was the beginning of the great migration of Americans from east to west, driven by the strength of character and sense of adventures of the individuals who risked all for this pioneering life...a strenuous life. Warm Western Light is a story of one such brave and strong American who joined hundreds of thousands of brave men, women, and children. Despite the incredible hardsh...
A Bad Guy
A Bad Guy begins at 1972 with a street fight in the gritty north end of Regina. Half a lifetime later leads to the ball diamonds and hockey rinks of Calgary Alberta. Through it all, this story is about male influences – good and bad. “I prayed every night for ages. It’s no miracle I was after. I just wanted to get home-free once in a blue moon. God did a better job making me pay for my sins than answering my prayers. All I ever did was get in God’s way.”
X-Statix
Collects X-Statix (2002) #6-20, Wolverine/Doop (2003) #1-2, material from X-Men Unlimited (1993) #41. A super hero satire of modern culture from the brilliant minds of Milligan and Allred! The mutants in X-Statix know fame is the ultimate currency in today’s society — and they’re cashing in on their special abilities, big time! But as egos clash, the team may be torn apart by interior squabbles. When push comes to shove, will their careers end at their own hands? When European pop sensation Henrietta Hunter returns from the dead for the ultimate comeback tour, it’s up to the celebrity super-squad to keep her alive…again! But can X-Statix live in the shadow cast by her white-hot celebrity, especially when she becomes team leader?! Plus: Spider-Man swings by! And — together at last — Doop and Wolverine hunt the Pink Mink!
Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change
The newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology expands access to cultural production, popular culture continues to play an important role as an egalitarian vehicle for promoting ideological dissent and social change. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture – from literature to film and music to digital culture – in order to address the ways in which popular culture shapes and is shaped by leaders around the globe as they strive to change their social systems for the better.
Inferno
Loosely following Dante's epic by fashioning her own riveting account into three distinct parts, Eileen Myles brings her unparalleled brand of raw intellect and insight to her latest novel, The Inferno. The first part of the story, mesmerizing readers with its ripple of memoir, tells the saga (or hell) of a poet girl. The second, on the surface, provides instruction on how to write a poem--but it also pulls a clever bait-and-switch by informing readers how to become a lesbian as well. Myles's exposition of lesbianity, in fact, includes six pages of female genitalia that rival anything Henry Miller ever produced. The third and final part of the book is a fictional proposal to a funding organi...
Fighting Words
Myles McReary is trying to save up enough money to bring his family over from Ireland. And he's doing it the only way he knows: through bareknuckle boxing. Myles is one of the toughest young fighters at the Bowery's Woodrat Club. Even so, when the Woodrat arranges a match between Myles and Giancarlo Sperio, the best boxer in Harlem, Myles worries he's met his match. Myles knows he can't back down. If he does, he'll fail his family. So he turns to Father O'Carroll, a mysterious neighborhood priest. But Father O'Carroll's solution gives Will a whole new set of problems...
Crooked
A chain of murders set in 2091 starts an investigation led by detective Myles Connor. Follow Myles and his accomplices, Hayden, Williams, Karter, and Cooper, through the twisted mind of a psychopathic killer; a case that the detectives will remember for the rest of their lives.
