UNDERGOUND AMERICA
Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men and women struggling to carve out a life in the United States.
INVISIBLE HANDS, VOICE FROM THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
This collection of oral histories highlights human and labor rights struggles in the global economy. Sweeping in scope and rich in detail, these stories capture the interconnectivity of all people struggling to support themselves and their families. The oral histories in Invisible Hands provide a point of entry for understanding economic systems from a human perspective, creating an opening for critical exploration of the ethical, moral, and legal issues connected to these systems.
FROM THEN ON FIRE
A digital experiment in fiction and the subject of the 2012 Associated Writers’ and Publishers’ (AWP) Conference lecture, “Emerging Digital Genres: A Relational Investigation” and studies at Enssib in Lyon, France and is enshrined in the Electronic Literature Dictionary.
QUARATINE COLLABORATION
The idea for the Quarantine Collaboration came in early April 2020. The lockdown in California had been in place for two weeks. Hospitals and morgues were filling or filled or overflowing. Offices, schools, places of worship were ordered closed. Kids as young as two were encouraged to ‘play’ with their friends through the two-dimensional, flickering screen. Nearly all social life had ceased. By April we felt the effects of relentless change and growing uncertainty.
THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING
For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. The writing in this book is very essential, if not required, like visiting the Louvre if you re in Paris. In any case, nothing in this book takes place in Paris, as far as we can recall, but it does feature an elephant hunt, the fall of a reality-TV star, a walk through Ethiopia, and much more of what Johnson calls the most important examinations in life.