Bøger af Kelly Dessaint

Tales from the San Gabriel Valley... Featuring the adventures of the Baudrey Boys, three rambunctious brothers growing up along the San Bernardino Freeway in Rosemead, exactly 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles. These interconnected stories celebrate their random hijinks. From turf wars with the poppers and lockers to scoring free McDonald's food courtesy of the Eastern Bloc. From getting stoned on the first day of school at Mark Keppel to riding bikes in the Wash, to playing Rambo at Marrano Beach, trashing Emerson Elementary, getting locked up at the Temple City Police Department, hunting the Night Stalker and having Parents Without Partners... A visceral look at growing up in the suburbs east of East LA in the seventies and eighties. Collects three Piltdownlad zines: The Güero Chingón Stories, Junior Careers and The Olympic Spirit. Presented in the original typewritten and cut-and-paste design.

Piltdownlad #6 features the "Institutionalized" story cycle, an exploration of abuse told from the perspectives of four participants. Interspersed among the narrative are actual court records from the trial, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, photos and other miscellany. A true story. Not for the fainthearted or the hardhearted. "A powerful, humanizing work." - Broken Pencil "This powerful zine demonstrates what it means to create space... shape shifting and, at times, completely absurd." - Maximum Rocknroll "You can't get much more real than this. A brave zine..." - Craven Rock "...essential reading." - One Minute Zine Reviews

"The Thin Checkered Line" is the fourth installment in the Behind the Wheel series - a week in the life of a San Francisco taxi driver living in Oakland, a newly minted father and newspaper columnist who's always on the prowl for a good ride and an even better story ...Over the course of these five narrative essays, I document the gritty details of the 12-hour taxi shift while exploring the rapidly changing landscape of present day San Francisco; .As I attempt to explain how the taxi system works, I answer the eternal question: why I drive a taxi, and describe what it's like driving a taxi in the age of Uber and Lyft ...Along the way, I also speculate on the future of transportation and wonder where the hell we're going, and whether or not the destination is meter and a half ...