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In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides listeners through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, white, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply int...

A searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take the Answer In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines...

An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of storiesThe Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense, who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma, and who find solace-or at least a sense of purpose-in peculiar jobs and pursuits.A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfri...

A moving and wide-ranging collection of essays by the author of Letter to a Future LoverThe idea of connection permeates I Will Take the Answer, Ander Monson's fourth book of utterly original and intelligent essays. How is our present connected to our past and future? How do neural connections form memories, and why do we recall them when we do? And how do we connect with one another in meaningful ways across time and space?In the opening essa...

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DIAGRAM.4 is the fourth print installment of the journal DIAGRAM . These texts are selected from years 7 to 9 of the journal, and are joined here by a great many found & recovered diagrams. Contributors: Marcia Aldrich, Steve Barbaro, Douglas Basford, Lindsay Bell, Samantha Bell, Elisabeth Benjamin, Ash Bowen, Jason Bredle, Nickole Brown, Stephen Burt, Blake Butler, Edmond Caldwell, Kate Hill Cantrill, Jimmy Chen, Nolan Chessman, Adam Clay,...

An exuberant, expansive cataloging of the intimate physical relationship between a reader and a bookA way to leave a trace of us, who we were or wanted to be, what we read and could imagine, what we did and what we left for you. Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long...

Uncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, Other Electricities charts a new and strange direction in American fiction.

The best of Essay Daily-each a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic.

An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by "an original new voice" ("Publishers Weekly") and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize In this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms--the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof--to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects...

DIAGRAM.2, the second print anthology from the popular online magazine of text, art, and schematic, DIAGRAM , includes selections from its third and fourth years of publication. Includes a wide array of strange, never-before-seen schematics from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, chosen for their strangeness and beauty. Like the first print anthology, (SOME FROM) DIAGRAM: SELECTIONS FROM THE MAGAZINE AND MORE, this is an often bizarre, so...

DIAGRAM III, the latest baby in the print collection from the magazine DIAGRAM , brings you our own cabinet of wonders: prose, poem, and image. Included here are favorite pieces from 2004 and 2005 by the following: Gina Abelkop, Corinn Adams, Nick Admussen, Forrest Aguirre, Neil Aitken, Stephanie Anderson, Arlene Ang, Danielle Aquiline, Jennifer Ashton, Craig Beaven, Deborah Bogen, Jenny Boully, Kristy Bowen, Joseph Bradshaw, Jason Bredl...

A meditation on information-overload and an elegy for the worlds we live in--digital, analog, and real.

An adventurous exploration of the "I" in American culture, by the author of "Neck Deep and Other Predicaments " "Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. "In contemporary America, land of tell-all memoirs and endless reality television, what kind of person denies the opportunity to present himself in his own voice, to lead with "I"? How many layers of a life can be peeled back before the self vanishes? In this provocative,...