Gregor Samsa, from Kafka's unforgettable METAMORPHOSES, is the hero of this debut novel, in which Gregor the cockroach, after a spell in a circus in Vienna, ends up in New York City as an insectoid superhero and inspires a dance, "the Gregor," that's as popular as the Charleston.
With more than thirty years of pageantry behind it, the legendary Bread & Puppet Theater is one of America's most politically potent theater companies. Its gigantic puppets and larger-than-life pageantry make Bread & Puppet an unforgettable act of pomp and circumstance -- a folk legend that is reconstructed and celebrated through the photographs ...
Marc Estrin follows another of his strange protagonists through a world troubled by what it knows and by how it applies that knowledge. From the first page, we are plunged into a global riot of paranoia, joy, and fear. But something is sadly familiar here, perhaps because we have been taught to anticipate a world in which people suddenly fly off ...
Only Estrin could imagine the line of descent from the Frankensteinian Golem of Rabbi Loew to the outrageous false messiah of the Bronx, Nurse Alan Krieger.
Marc Estrin's Skulk is the sixth of his critically-acclaimed novels for lovers of intelligent fiction. Radical prof Richard Gronsky is swept off his feet by T.L. Skulkington, a sassy, right-wing superstar, during one of her liberal-bashing talks. Their romance struggles with political polarity until a run-in with Homeland Security brings Miss ...
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