Bibliocracy takes a hiatus. Back in spring 2015. Listen for other literary arts programs on KPFK.

Download individual shows to your machine of choice, free for 90 days at the KPFK archives.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Monday, January 26 Deanne Stillman

Particular books both define a topic and become the defining book on that topic. I am thinking of John McPhee’s Oranges, Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death and Mike Davis’s City of Quartz and today add to that list Deanne Stillman’s Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West. Partly investigative journalism into the 1998 massacre of wild mustangs near Reno, Nevada, this singular book tells the story of the wild horse, celebrates the animal and its unbroken spirit and argues on its behalf against the encroachments of civilization and our failure to protect it. Stillman’s Mustang tells a narrative nonfiction history of the wild horse in the West, with a parallel look at the ongoing wars to wipe out the animal, and is also a personal appreciation from an obvious and enthusiastic horse lover. Deanne Stillman is perhaps best known for a remarkable book called Twenty Nine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines and the Mojave, which reviewers compared favorably to the work of California nonfiction culture and history truth-tellers like Joan Didion. She has written widely for magazines including Rolling Stone and the LA Times and won awards and acclaim. Stillman’s recent advocacy on behalf of mustangs has made her a player in the discussion as it appeared in the NY Times and other editorial pages, and in policy-making discussions. For more info: http://www.deannestillman.com/mustang.shtml

2 comments:

Sam said...

Tremendous work! The feedback supplied was very beneficial. Lets hope that you maintain the great job succesfully done.
locksmith fort worth
Locksmith Opa Locka
Locksmith Richmond CA
Locksmith Fremont CA
Locksmith Sunnyvale CA
Locksmith Palo Alto CA
mesquite locksmiths
miami fl locksmith
locksmith miami beach fl
locksmith fort worth texas
locksmith miami fl
miami fl locksmith
locksmith Aventura FL
locksmith miami fl
aventura locksmith
pembroke pines locksmith
mesquite locksmiths
irvine locksmith
plano locksmith
locksmiths fort worth
mesquite locksmiths
miami beach locksmiths

runescape-powerlevel said...

In a report dragonica gold obtained by the newspaper, Dr. Francisco Meza dfo gold says adult film companies refuse to ddo plat cooperate with the investigation eve isk, and stage names for everquest plat performers make it difficult eq2 plat to track down partners. The Los Angeles faxion gold Times reports that fiesta gold health officials are struggling to flyff penya make headway on a probe, a process that gaia online gold is usually much more efficient when grand fantasia gold there is a disease iris gold outbreak.

In an gamegoldbuy blog interview with The guild wars gold Associated Press on knight noah Friday, Obama predicted loco gold that Congress would raise last chaos gold the debt ceiling, but he acknowledged legend of edda gold that he would have to offer lineage 2 adena more spending cuts in the budget mabinogi gold to get a deal. Later, Obama's spokesman perfect world gold said a debt ceiling vote ro zeny could not be contingent rf online gold on upcoming negotiations rohan crone over the budget.

"I think that what rift platinum we have to runes of magic gold become aware of rift platinum is that if we allow taxes shaiya gold to fill in the holes silkroad gold here, we are going to find that we are swg credits getting ever closer to the type of vindictus gold economies that exist in warhammer gold Europe, which are very heavily wonderking zed laden and not rapidly growing the ways zentia gold ours can," Greenspan said on NBC.