The Day After the Day After
My Atomic Angst
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2010
Summary
Steven Church grew up in the 1970s and ‘80s in Lawrence, Kansas, a town whose predictable daily rhythms give way easily to anxietyand a place that, since Civil War times, has been a canvas for sporadic scenes of havoc and violence in the popular imagination. Childhood was quiet on the surface, but Steven grew up scaredscared of killer tornadoes, winged monkeys, violent movies, authority figures, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, and most of all in Reagan’s America, nuclear war. His …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593762612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593762615 |
| Author: | Steven Church |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Soft Skull Press |
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About The Author
Steven Church
Steven Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me- a Memoir of Record, Theoretical Killings- Essays and Accidents, The Day After The Day After- My Atomic Angst, and most recently, Ultrasonic, which was featured in the LA Times, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among others. His essays have been published and anthologized widely, including in the Best American Essays (2011) and most recently in After Montaigne- Contemporary Essayists Cover The Essays. He’s a founding editor and nonfiction editor for the nationally recognized literary magazine The Normal School, and he teaches in the MFA Program at Fresno State, where he is the Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing.
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