City of Others
Title | City of Others PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Niles |
Publisher | Dark Horse Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781593078935 |
Killer Stosh Bludowski is in for the fight of his life after his last two jobs go horribly wrong and he finds himself pulled into the vampire underworld where he must make a decision that will change the course of his future.
City of Others (10th Anniversary Edition)
Title | City of Others (10th Anniversary Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Niles |
Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1506712029 |
A masterwork from two horror comics legends in a deluxe oversized edition! From the writer who created 30 Days of Night and the artist who created Swamp Thing comes a horror graphic novel like no other! Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy--until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other? Collects City of Others #1-4
Significant Others
Title | Significant Others PDF eBook |
Author | Armistead Maupin |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062030884 |
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
Cities of Others
Title | Cities of Others PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaojing Zhou |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0295805420 |
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal attention to life in other parts of the city. Her innovative and wide-ranging approach sheds new light on the works of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American writers who bear witness to a variety of urban experiences and reimagine the American city as other than a segregated nation-space. Drawing on critical theories on space from urban geography, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies, Zhou shows how spatial organization shapes identity in the works of Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Meena Alexander, Frank Chin, Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others. She also shows how the everyday practices of Asian American communities challenge racial segregation, reshape urban spaces, and redefine the identity of the American city. From a reimagining of the nineteenth-century flaneur figure in an Asian American context to providing a framework that allows readers to see ethnic enclaves and American cities as mutually constitutive and transformative, Zhou gives us a provocative new way to understand some of the most important works of Asian American literature.
City of Night
Title | City of Night PDF eBook |
Author | John Rechy |
Publisher | Serpent's Tail |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 178283785X |
Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
City of Others (10th Anniversary Edition)
Title | City of Others (10th Anniversary Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Niles |
Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1506713009 |
A masterwork from two horror comics legends in a deluxe oversized edition! From the writer who created 30 Days of Night and the artist who created Swamp Thing comes a horror graphic novel like no other! Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy--until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other? Collects City of Others #1-4
Gods of the City
Title | Gods of the City PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Orsi |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1999-07-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780253113313 |
"Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- Library Journal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization,urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" -- Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion thrive in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities not only can provide the settings for religious expression, but also are material to the experiences which give rise to those religious expressions. In this book, they explore the distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history of American cities.