Jul

8

May I announce that some major books of mine are now available on amazon kindle for single digit prices (cheap). Some are criticism.

The Art of Radio in North America:

This offers chapter-length appreciations acoustic excellence in radio comedy, John Cage, Norman Corwin, Glenn Gould, et. al.

Jewish Writings So Far:

What a surprise it was for me to recognize that I’d been writing about Jewish subjects or out of the Jewish tradition for more than four decades. Since there wasn't enough material to make a printed book, Jewish Writings So Far seemed an appropriate addition to my website, particularly in collecting materials unavailable elsewhere. This 2011 edition expands an earlier Kindle/Website text.

On Sports and Sportsmen:

This book collects essays written over the past four decades about sports and sportsmen. It reprints a New York Times Magazine profile of the legendary orthopedic surgeon James Nicholas, long the team physician for the New York Jets, as well as the profile of Detlef Schrimpf, the first German professional basketball player in America, “Working/Playing a Long Way from Leverkusen.” The book also contains an appreciation of European soccer and a critique of a patently under-researched book about baseball in Latin America. I include two essays on the esthetic and the esthetes’ appreciation of spectator sports —”Artistry in Football” & “The Opiate of the Intellectuals.”

A Book of Kostis:

Not unlike other prolific writers, I regard some of my texts as more classic than others; these represent my choices for My Most Classic under these topics: Abridgement, Abstract Film, Acoustic Fiction, Alternative “Poetry Readings”, Alternative Exposition, Alternative Publishing, Aphorisms, Art Prints, Arts History, Audio Documentary, Audiovideotapes, Autohistoriography, Avant-Garde Criticism , Book Art, Book Composition, Book Reviewing, Cameraless video, Choreographic scores, City Anti-Planning, Collective Translation, Conceptual scripts, Connecting people, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Photography, Critical Policing, Curating Exhibitions, Digital Art, Documentary Film, Documentary Photography, Drawing, Electro-Acoustic Composition, Exhaustive Narrative Film, Experimental Prose, Extended Interviews, Film & Video Criticism, Grants Criticism, Hörspiel (German Ear-Plays), Humor, Innovative Erotica, Intellectual History, Intellectual Portraiture, Interior design, Internet Correspondence, Inventing Categories, Investigative Reporting, Jewish Art, Journalism, Kinetic installations, Literary Criticism , Literary Demolition, Literary History, Literary Journal Editing, Live Media Presentations, Memoir, Minimal Literature, Multiplex Holography, Music Criticism, Music Journalism, Musical Composition, Musicology, Numerical Art, Numerical Literature, Organizing Assemblings, Performance Studies, Performance Texts, Photolinens, Political Commentary, Polyartist Criticism, Public Art Proposals, Public Intellectual , Radio Features, Radio Scripts, Randomly Accessed DVDs, Satire , Scenarios, Scholarship, Simultaneous Translation, Social History, Sound Poetry, Sports Writing, Straight Prose, Taste-Making Anthologies, Text objects, Texts for Composers, Theatrical Scripts, Thematic collecting, Humor, Thematic Dictionaries, Transmission Holography, Travel Writing, Urban Studies, Verbal Fiction, Verbal Poetry, Video Documentary, Video Narration, Video Poems & Stories, Visual Arts Criticism, Visual Fiction, Visual Poetry, Workshops in Innovative Writing

These others are cultural history:

The Maturity of American Thought:

This was begun in the late 1960s, with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship. It was meant to be a comprehensive intellectual history of post-WWII America (1945-68), and its thesis was that only in the post-War period did American thinking in many fields achieve first-rank importance and major international influence. My strategy in writing this book was less to prove this thesis, which I took to be virtually self-evident to those who knew (and cared) than to identify and summarize what this major thinking was. I completed several chapters before putting the project aside to complete something else; it was never resumed. The chapters I finished beyond the introduction covered “Historiography,” “Sociology,” “Social Philosophy,” “Government,” “Anthropology,” “Esthetics,” “Architecture,” and “Literary Criticism.”

Autobiography:

Categories:

An elaborate summary of my work in several domains conventionally understood.

Remembering Everyone Met:

Short descriptions of many people remembered recently—my life entirely through others.

Fiction:

More Openings & Closings:

These stories are meant to be, alternately, the opening sentences or closing sentences in otherwise nonexistent fictions. They are differentiated in print with the Openings in roman type and the Closings in italics type. This text supplements, without duplication, the "Openings & Closings" published more than three decades ago.Openings: Just the opening sentences of otherwise nonexistent fictions.

Epiphanies Complete:

Just the heightened moments, no more than a single sentence long, in a multitude of stories, mostly written decades ago.

1001 Stories Enumerated:

One thousand One single-sentence fictions, each with its own number, as a contribution to Richard Kostelanetz's continuing exploration of minimal fiction–work frequently acknowledged in histories and encyclopedias of contemporary literature.

Minimal Audio Plays:

A large number of exchanges between two speakers, for self-reading or performances.

Lovings:

Several hundred erotic stories no more than a single sentence long.

Poetry:

English Incredible English:

Thousands of unfamiliar English words, in an extended investigation into “found poetry.”

OTHERS COMPLIMENT PREVIOUISLY PUBLISHED BOOKS:

Preambles to the New reprints all the prefaces written for previous books both published and unpublished over the past five decades.

Additions to the Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo has a chapter missing from the first edition as well as elaborations and updates.

Here is the kindle site.

to come soon:

Autobiographies @ 70

There No Such Thing as a “No-Cost Delay”

New Entries Toward a Third Edition of my Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

The Rockaways: Fall & Rise of NYC’s Beach Towns

www.richardkostelanetz.com


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