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This work features personal essays on the theme 'local truth'. It includes piquant, surprising, unpredictable proses from 75 of the finest emerging writers of the East and West Coasts. These men and women speak to particular subcultures and localities. Their words have sharp edges. Their thinking is strong, deeply felt, rooted - a welcome change from the pabulum that is produced for a mass audience. Learn of our future as is passes from the heat and passion of local discourse into national debate. Listen to men and women who, for all their individuality, share Cune's notion that literature, by its excellence as art tends to orient, heal, and uplift.
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Review:
We're all familiar with cooperative art galleries. The artists pay their dues and assume the gallery's administrative roles; in return, they are rewarded with a space to show their work. Enter the co-op book, An Ear to the Ground, for which "grassroots publisher" Scott C. Davis assembled a cast of more than 200 volunteer writers and artists (and publicists and the like). The book comprises 75 essays by as many writers; each is accompanied by a portrait and profile of the author, and a bit in which the author divulges such secrets as favorite books, belief systems, and cravings. The writers weren't paid for their work; nor did they pay for its publication, as they would with a vanity press. The writing is uneven, though there are some interesting essays, including a piece by Doris Colmes on escaping the Third Reich, a "food diary" by M. Cassandra Cossitt, and a coming-of-age tale by Israeli Arab Hanna Eady. Most interesting is Davis's afterword, in which he rallies for reforms in the publishing business. He'd like to see more books published on recycled paper; he pushes for an end to the current returns policy (which is causing great strain to publishers large and small); and he issues a reminder to writers that all the money spent sending manuscripts out could be used to start or support a small press (where you could just publish your work yourself).
From the Publisher:
An Ear to the Ground is grassroots publishing at its most inventive. Included you'll find brief essays by 75 emerging writers; essays by guests Horton Foote, Arun Gandhi, and Vaclav Havel; original portraits of each author by East and West Coast artists; and profiles of each writer written by a confidant.
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- PublisherCune
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1885942850
- ISBN 13 9781885942852
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages492
- EditorDavis Scott C.
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