The successful photographer shares his idiosyncratic vision of life in America by combining his evocative images with the musings of two great writers.
Ian Frazier Livres
1 janvier 1951
Ian Frazier est un écrivain et humoriste américain réputé pour son sens aigu de l'observation et sa prose spirituelle. Son œuvre explore souvent le paysage et la culture américains, en scrutant les nuances de la vie avec un regard acéré et perspicace. L'approche distinctive de Frazier en matière d'écriture trouve humour et perspicacité profonde dans le quotidien, offrant aux lecteurs une perspective fraîche et captivante sur le monde qui les entoure.
Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a young man from Hudson, Ohio. In classic evocations of the F train, Canal Street, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and in his iconic "Bags in Trees" essay, Frazier gives us New York again, in all its vital and human multiplicity.
Coyote v. Acme
- 117pages
- 5 heures de lecture
When Ian Frazier's first collection of humorous essays, Dating Your Mom, was published in 1986, Time's reviewer Paul Gray called it "hilarious" and warned readers to" read sparingly... By 1996 another collection may appear." And he was rights. Frazier's new collection, Coyote v. Acme, includes twenty-two more side-splitting glimpses into some of the more oddball corners of the American mind. The title essay imagines the opening statement of an attorney for cartoon character Wile E. Coyote in a product liability suit against the Acme Company, supplier of unpredictable rocket sleds and faulty spring-powered shoes. Other essays are about the golfing career of comedian Bob Hope, a commencement address given by a Satanist college president, a suburban short story attacked by Germans, the problem of issues versus non-issues, and the theories of revolutionary stand-up comedy from Comrade Stalin.
Verslag van reizen door het middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten aangevuld met wetenswaardigheden over de geschiedenis daarvan.