Literary Nonfiction. Photography by Hannah Klein. MAXIMUM SUNLIGHT is a timely and incisive portrait of the people, communities, anxieties, and contradictions that make up what many think of—now, more than ever, after the 2016 election—as rural white America. Told through a series of candid interviews and sharp observations of town life in tiny Tonopah, Nevada, journalist Meagan Day and photographer Hannah Klein create a book that is both traditional reportage and searching portrait of this eccentric and yet archetypal desert town. Day, a journalist and editor, writes with Didion's penetrating keenness for detail and Stegner's sense of the beauty and spareness of life in the west—illustrated throughout by Klein's striking color photo-spreads of desolate vistas, dilapidated houses, and cluttered shelves of clown figurines and neo-Nazi paraphernalia. The unexpected brightness and shocking depth of color in the photographs juxtapose the harshness and expanse of Tonopah's exteriors with the sharpness and peculiarity of its interiors. Tonopah is a town of former skinheads, drunks, pawnshop owners, drifters, lifers, day laborers, military contractors, and 4H moms. It is a town of casino bars, a highly classified military base, UFO sightings, ghosts of dead miners, and a massive solar energy plant. It's most notable attraction is a clown-themed motel next to a 19th century miners' graveyard. Written in the years leading up to the 2016 election, the book emerges as a vital and nuanced portrait of white identity and experience in an era in which rural isolationism and white nationalism have been thrust into the national spotlight.

Maximum Sunlight

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Day, Meagan

Photography & Video

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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Contributors include Christian Johnson, Leila Weefur, Jamal Batts, Jordan Brown, Anaiis Cisco, Malika, "RA" Imhotep, Yetunde Olagbaju, and Soleil Summer.   In BLACK AESTHETIC SEASON ONE, a new generation of Black artists responds to the deeply influential and often forgotten legacy of 20th century Black film. It is at once a critical companion to independent Black film, and a collection of personal journeys—through essays, poetry, screenplays, and more—unlocking essential questions about cinema, the canon, and the Black aesthetic. Growing out of a series of underground screenings, BLACK AESTHETIC SEASON ONE, is the first in a series and focuses on the imaginative legacy of Black women—as directors, actresses, and subjects—in film. Future books in the series will investigate contemporary Black cinema, African filmmakers, and queerness in Black film.

Black Aesthetic Season One: Black Women in Film (The Black Aesthetic)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Film. THE BIGNESS OF THINGS surveys the intersection of New Narrative, San Francisco's queer-and-punk-infused writing avant- garde, and visual culture, through photographs and essays on visual art, literary journals, and film.

The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Film. WOLFMAN NEW LIFE QUARTERLY is a literary arts quarterly of conversations, profiles, reviews, features, columns, selected art, poetry and fiction folios, focusing on the intersection of radical arts and diverse community, based out of Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA, but stretching far beyond. It's a magazine of literary dispatch, artistic conversation, unexpected connections and diverse, ambitious, experimental optimism. Featuring new writing from Lindsey Boldt (Nightboat Books), Leora Friedman (New York Times Op-Ed), Jordan Karnes (author of It Hasn't Stopped Being California Here), Claire Mullen (Reveal podcast), Zoé Samudzi (Verso Books), Avery Trufelman (99 Percent Invisible), and Leila Weefur (Art Practical). Conversations with Stephen Steinbrink, Jenny Odell, Jeff Cheung, Yalie Kamara, Sarah Simon, and Astrid Elisabeth. Art by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Samantha Espinoza, Paolo Yumol, @laurencesss, and Coco Spencer. Reviews curator Rachel Khong (author of Goodbye, Vitamin, former editor at Lucky Peach).

Wolfman New Life Quarterly: Issue 1

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Drama. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Film. Art. Contributors include Zoé Samudzi, Christian Johnson, Leila Weefur, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Ismail Muhammad, Ra Malika Imhotep, Jamal Batts, Shah Noor Hussein, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Ed Ntiri (photographs). Responding to the films and interviewing the filmmakers of season two, films made by independent Black filmmakers, THE BLACK AESTHETIC SEASON II contains works that contribute to a larger conversation that attempts to define and demarcate boundaries around "Black" aesthetics while also positioning the diasporic diversity of Black cultural production and aesthetics as a self-contained and self-referential global body of work. Where the first book was responding specifically to cinematic portrayals of Black womanhood/femininity and to projects by Black women as a part of an artistic canon, this book speaks more explicitly to that canon's larger composition and the array of themes, politics, senses and affective politics--both complementary and contradictory--contained within. Are there qualifiers to the degree of blackness of artistic work? Can non-blackness exist within a Black space? Does a quintessentially Black aesthetic exist within white institutions? Does blackness exist outside of whiteness' negation? Through engaging these questions and other questions posed and answered by contributors, THE BLACK AESTHETIC SEASON II continues to seek out and define the potentially undefinable Black aesthetic. Films explored: 100 Boyfriends Mixtape by Brontez Purnell, Breathless by Anaiis Cisco, Day by Day and Man Who Feared by Jehnovah Carlisle, I gave myself space to go back by Yetunde Olagbaju, Good White People by Jarrod Willing-Cann &amp; Erick Stoll, Short Films by Summer Mason, Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush by Alli Logout

The Black Aesthetic Season II

Dramas & Plays

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. California Interest. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. African &amp; African American Studies. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. WOLFMAN NEW LIFE QUARTERLY is a literary arts quarterly of conversations, profiles, reviews, features, columns, selected art, poetry and fiction folios, focusing on the intersection of radical arts and diverse community, based out of Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA, but stretching far beyond. It's a magazine of literary dispatch, artistic conversation, unexpected connections and diverse, ambitious, experimental optimism. New writing from Caleb Beckwith, Caren Beilin, David Brazil, Justin Carder, Pia Cortez, Leora Fridman, Ali Giordani, Blair Johnson, Jacob Kahn, Jordan Karnes, Hannah Kingsley-Ma, Amy Langer, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Tara Marsden, Margaret McCarthy, Louise McCune, Claire Mullen, Zoé Samudzi, Clara Sankey, Liza St. James, Claire Stringer, Avery Trufelman, Miranda Tsang, Leila Weefur, &amp; Jennifer Williams. Conversations with E.H. Mann, Raphael Villet, a Golden Dog, Zoe Donnellycolt, Sophia Wang, &amp; Andrew Evans. Visual art by Jade Ariana Fair, @laurencessss, Dionne Lee, Alton, Brian, and Molloy McMullen, &amp; Marcela Pardo Ariza. Books curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin &amp; Colin Winnette.

Wolfman New Life Quarterly: Issue 2

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. Music. California Interest. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. African &amp; African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. WOLFMAN NEW LIFE QUARTERLY is a literary arts quarterly of conversations, profiles, reviews, features, columns, selected art, poetry and fiction folios, focusing on the intersection of radical arts and diverse community, based out of Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA, but stretching far beyond. It's a magazine of literary dispatch, artistic conversation, unexpected connections and diverse, ambitious, experimental optimism. New writing from Amy Berkowitz, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Justin Carder, Pia Cortez, Davey Davis, Leora Fridman, Ali Giordani, Blair Johnson, Jacob Kahn, Jordan Karnes, Kevin Killian, Tara Marsden, Charlie Macquarie, Margaret McCarthy, Louise McCune, Claire Mullen, Zoé Samudzi, el?, Eric Sneathen, Avery Trufelman, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, José Vadi, Leila Weefur, and Jennifer Williams. Conversations with Maya Dusenbery, Sarah Burke, Lauren Whitehead, Geoff Saba, Sarah Toshie Cargill, Pete Lee, and Summer Mason. Visual art by Muzae Sesay, PJ Gubatina Policarpio, and Helen Shewolfe Tseng. Book selections by Brontez Purnell.

Wolfman New Life Quarterly: Issue 3

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Film. California Interest. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. African &amp; African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. COLOR THEORY brings together womxn and gender non-conforming working artists of color from four generations to explore the intersections of race, gender, class and labor in and around art institutions. Edited by Maya Gomez and Vreni Michelini Castillo, these reflections, stories, and remedies (through essay, image, and poetry) engage a multidisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue around ethical aesthetics, systemic oppression, and the ritual landscape. More than a simple indictment (though indict it, unabashedly, does), COLOR THEORY is a must-read collection of communal solidarity, critical resistance and creative healing. "We are not afraid of color," the editors declare, "because we are the embodiment of color." Contributors include Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nasim Aghili, Onyinye Alheri, Grace Rosario Perkins, Leila Weefur, Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Jen Everett, Keara Gray, Shah Noor Hussein, Las Nietas de Nonó, Vreni Michelini Castillo, Maya Gomez.

Color Theory

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Film. Music. Issue 4 is a special issue dedicated to artist correspondence! WOLFMAN NEW LIFE QUARTERLY is a literary arts quarterly of conversations, profiles, reviews, features, columns, selected art, poetry and fiction folios, focusing on the intersection of radical arts and diverse community, based out of Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA, but stretching far beyond. It's a magazine of literary dispatch, artistic conversation, unexpected connections and diverse, ambitious, experimental optimism. Featuring new writing and art from: Barbara Browning, Avery Trufelman, MI Leggett, Jasmine Gibson, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Emerson Whitney, Brandon Shimoda, Dot Devota, Dongyi Wu, Kwame Boafo, Mitsuko Brooks, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ra Malika Imhotep, Nicole Lavelle, Mary Welcome, Dorothy Santos, Jeannine Ventura, Thanh Hång Ph'm, Andrea Abi-Karam, Davey Davis, Claire Boyle, j.j. Mull, Sophia Dahlin, Julio Linares, Leora Fridman, Yosefa Raz, Vreni Michelini Castillo, Ana Karen, Hannah Kingsley-Ma, Claire Buss, Kate Robinson Beckwith, Amanda Davis, Chelsea A. Flowers, Philip Kos'ak, Jamie Townsend, Oki Sogumi, Margaret McCarthy, Till Krause, and BAMPFA Art Lab.

New Life Quarterly Issue 4: Correspondence

Essays & Correspondence

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Film. Music. Freshly redesigned as seven saddlestitched booklets, ISSUE 5 is now available! NEW LIFE is the arts and culture magazine from Wolfman Books that includes profiles, columns, reviews, features, as well as selected poetry, fiction, art portfolios and non-fiction, focusing on the intersection of arts and community, while highlighting emerging voices and the exuberant, overlooked, experimental margins. New writing from Blair Johnson, Claire Mullen, Claire Stringer, Evan Kennedy, Isabel Bal&#65533;e, Jennifer Williams, Jer&#65533;nimo R&#65533;edi & Kit Schluter, Jordan Karnes, Jos&#65533; Vadi, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Kathryn E. Styer, Laura Woltag, Lisa Pradhan, Lydia Magyar & Emerson Whitney, Madeline Gobbo, Matt Sussman, Miranda Tsang, Nadia Shihab, Ra Malika Imhotep, Rita Bullwinkel & Liza St. James, Sanford Jenkins, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, The Burl Concentrate (Sarah-Dawn Albani & Connie Zheng), Zo&#65533; Samudzi. Conversations with Francis Mead, Jamuna Shrestha, Andy Puls, Andrew Wilson, Nicole Shaffer. Visual art by No School at 2727 California Street, 5/5 (fivefifths) Multimedia Collective, Ricki Dwyer. Book selections by Tommy Orange.

New Life Quarterly (New Life Quarterly, 5)

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