Witty and original essays on America discuss art administrators' "punk nostalgia," food fanciers in search of new culinary thrills, and the remarkable and outrageous face of everyday life in the U.S.A

Raised by Puppets, Only to Be Killed by Research

Humor & Entertainment

CODRESCU, Andrei

Humor

Addison-Wesley

The author recounts his life in Romania and in America, relating his thoughts on revolution, freedom, and the world today

The Disappearance Of The Outside: A Manifesto For Escape

Biographies & Memoirs

Da Capo Press

Raised by Puppets: Only to Be Killed by Research

This collection by Australia's Banjo Paterson, introduced and selected by Les Murray, includes 68 poems from "Waltzing Matilda", "A Bush Christening" and "Clancy of the Overflow", to "The Man From Snowy River".

A.B. Paterson Selected Poems

Black Sparrow Press

Biting social commentary from a popular radio journalist offers a displaced European's view of the current state of America in elegant essays that are incisively witty, sometimes soothing, and always trenchant and intelligent.

The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans : and Other Essays

St Martins Pr

Witty, aphoristic, and never at a loss for a trenchant comment, NPR's much-loved commentator, Andrei Codrescu, has been keeping his American audience abreast of the absurdities of American culture for over ten years. He is known nationally for his regular appearances on "All Things Considered," and now for his recent debut as a film star in the movie version of his own book, Road Scholar. The Romanian-born Codrescu is fast on his way to becoming an American pop icon. In Zombification, Codrescu's NPR essays from 1989 to 1993 have been gathered together here in one volume, where they appear in print for the first time ever. Born in Transylvania, Romania, in 1946, Codrescu emigrated to the United States in 1966. He began then to cast a keen and watchful eye upon his adopted homeland. The essays collected here come directly off the NPR airwaves, and were broadcast during a period in our nation's history that witnessed the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the radical change in American foreign and domestic policy. All of these momentous consciousness shifts have been chronicled through the eyes of Codrescu, an incisive commentator who seems to miss nothing. Ranging from indignation at world indifference toward the new nations of Europe to compassion for the underprivileged of the United States, Codrescu takes the pulse of our time with the exasperated affection and barbed irony for which he is known. The area of Codrescu's concerns is wide, extending beyond world politics to include, for example, whales, dreams, Gypsies, and yes, that weathered institution, Congress. However, the unique voice who transmits these startling words could only be that of the Transylvanian-American who has given NPR listeners a sense of 1990s wonder. Zombification is a powerful book by one of America's finest writers.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

"The world is undergoing zombification. It was gradual for a while, a few zombies here and there, mostly in high office, where being a corpse in a suit was de rigueur . . . The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet." Never at a loss for a trenchant comment or off-beat imagery, National Public Radio's Andrei Codrescu has long been considered an eloquent if often sardonic expert on the absurdities of American culture. The essays in Zombification (all taken from this poet's popular commentaries for NPR) were broadcast during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period that witnessed the collapse of Communism, radical changes in American politics and society, and the birth of new nations. These large subjects—along with lively riffs on dozens of topics, both timely and timeless, both everyday and strange—are treated with Codrescu's inimitable wit, insight, and candor. Included here are "Seven Embryos for Seven Lawyers," "Dali in Vegas," "Culture Vultures and Casserole Widows," and other classics.

Picador

In twenty-six essays, Codrescu turns his skeptical, amused gaze to such topics as Plato's effect on American sex, the cultural meaning of Ed McMahon, baseball's literary underpinnings, his own conception in a Romanian darkroom, an cuisine under the Ceausescu dictatorship, as well as to larger subjects, including the suicide of communism, American culture and politics, and his adopted city of New Orleans.

The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays

History

Americas

The National Public Radio commentator shares stories about the rise of the American religious right, the ascendance of vampirism, America in the age of the computer chip, and other subjects

The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from Npr and Elsewhere

In this collection of essays, Codrescu focuses his keen eye on America in the "age of the chip." He confronts the convulsions of our post-ideological world at a time when "the advent of cyberspace and the caffeinating of America have occurred simultaneously." With poignancy and trenchant humor, he takes us on a roller-coaster tour of our dramatically changing country.

The Dog with the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR and Elsewhere

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Books by CODRESCU, Andrei

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Raised by Puppets, Only to Be Killed by Research

The Disappearance Of The Outside: A Manifesto For Escape

Raised by Puppets: Only to Be Killed by Research

A.B. Paterson Selected Poems

The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans : and Other Essays

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays

The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from Npr and Elsewhere

The Dog with the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR and Elsewhere