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Informationen zum Autor Greg Downs has been the least successful high school varsity basketball coach in Tennessee, the editor of a muckraking weekly newspaper on Chicago's South Side, a karaoke performer profiled in the "Boston Phoenix," and a reporter on the tail of a fugitive cult leader. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is an assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. Downs's stories have appeared in such publications as "Glimmer Train," "Meridian," "Chicago Reader," and "Sycamore Review." Klappentext With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past! Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old! weird America. Living off the map and out of sight! folks like Embee! Rudy! Peg! and Branch define themselves by where they are! not by what they eat! drink! or wear. Zusammenfassung With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America.
