Paul Gilmore: 6 books

In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil...

Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...

The Next Day is a groundbreaking graphic novella built from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. In this poetic and profound philosophical exploration, four seemingly ordinary people each offer haunting personal insights into life, the decision to end it, and what comes after... Selected for The New York Times Reading List.

FREE sample excerpt of Pop Sandbox' groundbreaking releases, KENK and The Next Day. KENK is an award-winning 300-page hybrid of comic book and long form journalism surrounding "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times), named a Best Book of the Year by Quill & Quire. The Next Day...

The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western...