Luminous Airplanes

Author : Paul La Farge
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429949910

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Luminous Airplanes. In September 2000, a young computer programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, and clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he's there, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and begins an ill-advised romance in which past and present are dangerously confused. La Farge's Luminous Airplanes is an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Families
ISBN : 0007459548

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Luminous Airplanes by Paul LaFarge Pdf

Even a wrong turn leads somewhere... It's the year 2000 and a young man learns that his grandfather has died. He is faced with a choice: should he return to the family home in upstate New York for the last time? Or simply let his twin mothers, Marie Celeste and Celeste Marie, throw all his grandparents' possessions away? Going back would mean the chance of meeting again with childhood sweetheart Yesim, and finding out what really happened to his mysterious father, the charismatic Richard Ente. But the past has a way of turning into a messy present, and every choice has repercussions felt long after it is made. Exposing the fragility of love, sanity and family, 'Luminous Airplanes' resonates with the echoes of repeated mistakes, and the hope that one day things could be better.

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374194319

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After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other ghosts of the past. By the author of Haussmann, or the Distinction. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Hartmut Koenitz,Gabriele Ferri,Mads Haahr,Diğdem Sezen,Tonguç İbrahim Sezen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317668688

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Interactive Digital Narrative by Hartmut Koenitz,Gabriele Ferri,Mads Haahr,Diğdem Sezen,Tonguç İbrahim Sezen Pdf

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Scott Rettberg and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.

Author : Paul La Farge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101981108

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The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge Pdf

From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them. A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.

Author : Jouni Smed,Tomi 'bgt' Suovuo,Natasha Skult,Petter Skult
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781119688136

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Handbook on Interactive Storytelling by Jouni Smed,Tomi 'bgt' Suovuo,Natasha Skult,Petter Skult Pdf

HANDBOOK ON INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING Discover the latest research on crafting compelling narratives in interactive entertainment Electronic games are no longer considered “mere fluff” alongside the “real” forms of entertainment, like film, music, and television. Instead, many games have evolved into an art form in their own right, including carefully constructed stories and engaging narratives enjoyed by millions of people around the world. In Handbook on Interactive Storytelling, readers will find a comprehensive discussion of the latest research covering the creation of interactive narratives that allow users to experience a dramatically compelling story that responds directly to their actions and choices. Systematically organized, with extensive bibliographies and academic exercises included in each chapter, the book offers readers new perspectives on existing research and fresh avenues ripe for further study. In-depth case studies explore the challenges involved in crafting a narrative that comprises one of the main features of the gaming experience, regardless of the technical aspects of a game’s production. Readers will also enjoy: A thorough introduction to interactive storytelling, including discussions of narrative, plot, story, interaction, and a history of the phenomenon, from improvisational theory to role-playing games A rigorous discussion of the background of storytelling, from Aristotle’s Poetics to Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey Compelling explorations of different perspectives in the interactive storytelling space, including different platforms, designers, and interactors, as well as an explanation of storyworlds Perfect for game designers, developers, game and narrative researchers, academics, undergraduate and graduate students studying storytelling, game design, gamification, and multimedia systems, Handbook on Interactive Storytelling is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the deployment of compelling narratives in an interactive context.

Author : Angus Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136244537

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Turning the Page by Angus Phillips Pdf

This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation, experimentation, and change. It is also a time of considerable fear within the book industry as it adjusts to changes in how books are created and consumed. The movement to digital has been taking place for some time, but with consumer books experiencing the transition, the effects of digitization can be clearly seen to everybody. In Turning the Page Angus Phillips analyses the fundamental drivers of the book publishing industry - authorship, readership, and copyright - and examines the effects of digital and other developments on the book itself. Drawing on theory and research across a range of subjects, from business and sociology to neuroscience and psychology, and from interviews with industry professionals, Phillips investigates how the fundamentals of the book industry are changing in a world of ebooks, self-publishing, and emerging business models. Useful comparisons are also made with other media industries which have undergone rapid change, such as music and newspapers. This book is an ideal companion for anyone wishing to understand the transition of the book, writing and publishing in recent years and will be particularly relevant to students studying publishing, media and communications.

Author : Naval School of Aviation Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Aviation medicine
ISBN : SRLF:D0002556652

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Progress Report and the Results of a Decade of Research at the School of Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Florida by Naval School of Aviation Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Nicola Maye Goldberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635574890

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Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg Pdf

BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2020 - PEOPLE MAGAZINE, VOGUE, CNN, REFINERY29, CRIMEREADS, and more “Captivating, serpentine, and affecting.” -Megan Abbott “A gothic Olive Kitteridge mixed with Gillian Flynn . . . Masterful.” -Vogue “Fascinating.” -Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review “Gripping and tremendously searing.” -Leslie Jamison “Reinvents the thriller for a new generation.” -Rebecca Godfrey “Gone Girl for the new decade.” -Vogue.com “A beautifully crafted novel with a terrifying story to tell. I couldn't put it down.” -Paul La Farge Inspired by a true story, this haunting debut novel pieces together a chorus of voices to explore the aftermath of a college student's death. On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the wake of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. Others are looking for retribution or explanation: Sara's half sister, stifled by her family's bereft silence about Blake, poses as a babysitter and seeks out her own form of justice, while the teenager Sara used to babysit starts writing to Logan in prison. A propulsive, taut tale of voyeurism and obsession, Nothing Can Hurt You dares to examine gendered violence not as an anomaly, but as the very core of everyday life. Tracing the concentric circles of violence rippling out from Sara's murder, Nicola Maye Goldberg masterfully conducts an unforgettable chorus of disparate voices.

Author : Rebecca Solnit,Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520285941

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Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit,Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Pdf

Nonstop Metropolis,Êthe culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of expertsÑfrom linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalistsÑamplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through ManhattanÕs playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York CityÕs unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past.ÊNonstop MetropolisÊallows us to excavate New YorkÕs buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors:ÊSheerly Avni,ÊGaiutra Bahadur,ÊMarshall Berman,ÊJoe Boyd,ÊWill Butler,ÊGarnette Cadogan,ÊThomas J. Campanella,ÊDaniel Aldana Cohen,ÊTeju Cole,ÊJoel Dinerstein,ÊPaul La Farge,ÊFrancisco Goldman,ÊMargo Jefferson,ÊLucy R. Lippard,ÊBarry Lopez,ÊValeria Luiselli,ÊSuketu Mehta,ÊEmily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,ÊLuc Sante,ÊHeather Smith,ÊJonathan Tarleton,ÊAstra Taylor,ÊAlexandra T. Vazquez,ÊChristina Zanfagna Interviews with:ÊValerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz,ÊGrand Wizzard Theodore,ÊMelle Mel, RZA

Author : Michael Dean Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472574091

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Creative Writing in the Digital Age by Michael Dean Clark Pdf

Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor's technical expertise.

Author : James Frieze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137366047

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Reframing Immersive Theatre by James Frieze Pdf

This diverse collection of essays and testimonies challenges critical orthodoxies about the twenty-first century boom in immersive theatre and performance. A culturally and institutionally eclectic range of producers and critics comprehensively reconsider the term ‘immersive’ and the practices it has been used to describe. Applying ecological, phenomenological and political ideas to both renowned and lesser-known performances, contributing scholars and artists offers fresh ideas on the ethics and practicalities of participatory performance. These ideas interrogate claims that have frequently been made by producers and by critics that participatory performance extends engagement. These claims are interrogated across nine dimensions of engagement: bodily, technological, spatial, temporal, spiritual, performative, pedagogical, textual, social. Enquiry is focussed along the following seams of analysis: the participant as co-designer; the challenges facing the facilitator of immersive/participatory performance; the challenges facing the critic of immersive/participatory performance; how and why immersion troubles boundaries between the material and the magical.

Author : K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682191279

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Welcome to Dystopia by K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling Pdf

In this diverse and vigorous mix of stories by newcomers and luminaries, writers offer their takes on what life might hold for us in the next few years. The resulting visions of war, oppression, and daily struggle are sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying (and occasionally both), but always thought-provoking.

Author : United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Classification
ISBN : UOM:39015030341237

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Subject Classification of Technical Reports by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112106623702

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf