Research Catalog

Title

The speed chronicles / edited by Joseph Mattson.

Publication

New York, NY : Akashic, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mattson, Joseph.
• Mattson, Joseph

Description

226 p. : ports.; 21 cm.

Summary

"The subject of speed is so innately intimidating yet so undeniably present that it begs to be written about. It is no secret that the drug has historically tuned up the lives of writers, including Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag, Philip K. Dick, and scores more. Too rarely, though, has it been written about, and its jolt to the bones of the American landscape continues to peak. Akashic Books dares to bring forth the first contemporary collection of all new literary short fiction on the drug from an array of today's most compelling and respected authors. These are no stereotypical tales of tweakers--the element of crime and the bleary-eyed, shaky zombies at dawn are here right alongside heart-wrenching narratives of everyday people, good intentions gone terribly awry, the skewed American Dream going up in flames, and even some accounts of pure joy"--

Subject

• Noir fiction, American
• Amphetamine abuse > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Noir fiction
• Fiction
• Short stories.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

How to go to dinner with a brother on drugs / Natalie Diaz -- War cry / Sherman Alexie -- Bad / Jerry Stahl -- Labiodental fricative / Scott Phillips -- Osito / Kenji Jasper -- Amp is the first word in amphetamine / Joseph Mattson -- Addiction / James Franco -- Wheelbarrow kings / Jess Walter -- Tips 'n' things by Elayne / Beth Lisick -- Pissing in perpetuity / Rose Bunch -- 51 hours / Tao Lin -- Everything I want / Megan Abbott -- The Speed of things / James Greer -- No matter how beautifully it stings / William T. Vollmann.

ISBN

• 9781617750281 (pbk.)
• 161775028X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011923103

OCLC

• 753304842
• SCSB-11830156

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library