Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Deep Vellum Publishing, Texas, 2022
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Paperback. What really (might have) happened when Jack Ruby, nightclub owner, brass knuckle-slinger, and inveterate fan of Corbusier, decided to kill the killer of JFK? In this first-ever trade publication of Bob Trammells work, Jack Ruby mythos loops between fact, fiction, and spectacle to satirize Dallas place on the world stage. Jack Ruby & The Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas caricaturizes everyone from Bob Thornton to Joseph Beuys; fodder for JFK conspiracy theorists, innuendo-readers, ingenious speculators, and pursuers of The Truth About Dallas At Large.With an introduction by Ben Fountain and afterword by David Searcy, this volume also includes Trammells Quiet Man story cycle from over the course of his long, countercultural writing career, lamenting a generation that lost much by embarking on a search for themselves in a cityand worldunwilling to support its brightest artists. Spectacular, genre-defying stories, including the reimagining of Lee Harvey Oswalds murder as an attempt to create generation-defining performance art. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas (Paperback)
- Author
- Robert Trammell
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing, Texas
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1646050495
- ISBN 13
- 9781646050499
What really (might have) happened when Jack Ruby, nightclub owner, brass knuckle-slinger, and inveterate fan of Corbusier, decided to kill the killer of JFK? In this first-ever trade publication of Bob Trammell’s work, Jack Ruby mythos loops between fact, fiction, and spectacle to satirize Dallas’ place on the world stage. Jack Ruby & The Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas caricaturizes everyone from Bob Thornton to Joseph Beuys; fodder for JFK conspiracy theorists, innuendo-readers, ingenious speculators, and pursuers of The Truth About Dallas At Large.
With an introduction by Ben Fountain and afterword by David Searcy, this volume also includes Trammell’s “Quiet Man” story cycle from over the course of his long, countercultural writing career, lamenting a generation that lost much by embarking on a search for themselves in a city―and world―unwilling to support its brightest artists.
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Robert Trammell, author of numerous books of poetry and stories, was a legendary underground writer in Dallas, and founded the literary nonprofit WordSpace.
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