James Howard Kunstler, Author . Free Press $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-84591-3
Author and urban gadfly Kunstler (Home from Nowhere; Geography of Nowhere) has graduated from the nowheresville of previous titles to a punchy new study of eight cities in as many chapters: Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome,...
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James Howard Kunstler, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-87113-910-8
Kunstler's first novel in over 10 years reflects, in deliciously funny and satiric fashion, some of his spirited nonfiction critiques of contemporary culture (The City in Mind
; The Geography of Nowhere
). Maggie Darling is a mid-career Martha...
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James Howard Kunstler, Author . Atlantic Monthly $23 (307p) ISBN 978-0-87113-888-0
The indictment of suburbia and the car culture that the author presented in The Geography of Nowhere
turns apocalyptic in this vigorous, if overwrought, jeremiad. Kunstler notes signs that global oil production has peaked and will soon dwindle, and
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James Howard Kunstler, Author . Atlantic Monthly $22 (317p) ISBN 978-0-87113-978-8
Kunstler’s name is mostly associated with nonfiction works like The Long Emergency
, a bleak prediction of what will happen when oil production no longer meets demand, and the antisuburbia polemic The Geography of Nowhere
. In this novel, his...
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James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1961-2
In the sequel to his bestselling World Made by Hand, Kunstler delivers another grim and suspenseful novel set in a post-oil world without electricity, Internet, or national order. In Union Grove, N.Y., the locals and the New Faithers, a religious...
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James Howard Kunstler, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70774-3
In this inconsistent but provocative analysis, Kunstler ( Blood Solstice ), a novelist and journalist, mixes memoir, historical essay and reporting to condemn the car-dependent suburbanization of America. Kunstler, who writes ably, casts a very wide
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James Howard Kunstler, Author Bantam Books $7.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-553-34514-8
It is the summer of 1967, and Andy Newmark, a 17-year-old New Yorker, takes a maintenance job at a Thunder (read Fire) Island resort. The reader is carried along by Andy's sense of exploration as he works, makes friends, surfs, and experiments with...
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James Howard Kunstler, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-81196-3
In a slashing, fervent, practical, brilliant critique of the philosophy--or lack thereof--underpinning today's dismal American cities and isolating suburbs, Kunstler argues that our streets, malls, parks, civic buildings and houses frustrate innate...
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James Howard Kunstler. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2030-4
With characteristic curmudgeonly enthusiasm, Kunstler brilliantly if belligerently shows us what a pickle we’re in and how inept we are at dealing with it. As Kunstler writes: “Our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusals...
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James Howard Kunstler. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0802124920
Kunstler returns to his fictional post-oil world in this sequel to World Made By Hand. This time he focuses on the inhabitants of Union Grove, N. Y., who have decided to live a simpler, agrarian way of life after civilization was destroyed by its...
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