_SOME OF US ARE HUNGRY NOW _(Two Dollar Radio)
With luminous insight and fervent prose, ANDRE PERRY'S DEBUT
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS, _Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now_,
travels from Washington
DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national
identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty, Perry
catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite
universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of
age in America.
The ESSAYS IN_ Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now_ take the form of
personal reflection, multiple choice questions, screenplays, and
imagined talk-show conversations, while traversing the daily
minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The
impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling,
while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American
voice.
Praise for _Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now_:
“The gift of _Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now _is in its brilliant
and lyrical meandering. ANDRE PERRY IS A GENEROUS WRITER—one who is
unafraid of the vulnerability that exists in inviting readers into a
world that questions place and belonging. This book is essential, for
how it asks with no expectation of answer.”—HANIF ABDURRAQIB
“Please welcome ANDRE PERRY AND GIVE HIM YOUR ATTENTION. With an
arsenal of honesty, outrage, and vulnerability, his ESSAYS ARE GOING
TO JOLT YOU OUT OF THE DULLNESS OF WHATEVER ROOM YOU’re reading in
and shove you into someplace new. It’ll feel uncomfortable,
sometimes hilarious, heartbreaking often, and ultimately
transcendent.”—JOHN D’AGATA
"A DEBUT COLLECTION OF INTERRELATED ESSAYS FINDS A YOUNG WRITER TRYING
TO NAVIGATE HIS WAY THROUGH IDENTITY AND CHALLENGES OF RACE,
privilege, sexuality, and culture. Reflective and creative... [_Some
of Us Are Very Hungry Now_ is] a promising first book."—_KIRKUS_
"ANDRE PERRY’s writing is utterly alive, scene-setting, visceral,
candid and punk. PERRY’s prose is transporting in this vivid
experimental memoir, tackling gentrification, music, sexuality and the
mutability of identity. PERRY TAKES THE READER ALONG AS HE TRAVELS THE
WORLD AND UNTANGLES WHO HE IS FROM PARTICULAR AMERICAN RACIST
MYTHOLOGIES. A remarkable DEBUT."—JESSICA HOPPER, AUTHOR OF _NIGHT
MOVES_
"In this complex and compelling COLLECTION, ANDRE PERRY HOLDS HIS
FOCUS ON ALL WHO SEEK TO ANONYMIZE HIS SENSITIVE AND SINGULAR VOICE.
His unwavering critical eye is attended by a kind of heartsick
self-awareness; while he might pull a few punches from those who
deserve it, he never spares himself."—AMELIA GRAY, AUTHOR
OF _ISADORA_
"_Some of Us Are Hungry Now_ is like nothing I have ever experienced.
The brilliance, transparency, and earnest exploration of race, class,
politics, sexuality, and notions of home are collectively so nuanced
that I am certain this book is like a comet—you might never see the
likes of it again. With a critical gaze as sharp as James Baldwin's,
and the divineness of a cinematic masterpiece as artistically complex
and boundless as _Moonlight_, ANDRE PERRY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS TO PULL
WEEPING FROM THE SOUL. To be his reader is not merely an honor but a
necessity. This is a book to treasure and to uphold for its
genre-bending prowess and reach into the depths of popular culture, as
one of the great responses to the question, what are we? Listen to
PERRY, for his voice is alive now, and real in a time that we, in this
America, need more than ever. In these daring pages—unafraid, even
in the dark—a literary star lights the sky."—TAMEKA CAGE CONLEY,
PHD
ANDRE PERRY lived in post-dot-com crash San Francisco in the early
2000s. He worked first in tech and advertising before becoming a
middle-school teacher. At night, he navigated the local independent
music scene, playing in several bands and producing events for artists
across mediums. After moving to Iowa City in 2005, he co-founded the
Midwest edition of the week-long music and literature gathering
Mission Creek Festival. He continues to work on the festival as well
as other arts and community-building projects. He teaches periodically
at the University of Iowa and has worked closely with the Association
for Performing Arts Professionals. He also writes and plays music.
This is his first book.
music
collecting
2017
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