Tony Christini

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Empire All In: A Novel of the Trump Era
You set the price! Words: 61,430. Language: American English. Published: June 28, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Empire All In: A Novel of the Trump Era ricochets between financial apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, and military conquest, with the threat of climate collapse overhanging all. A carnival of Death at rule, the novel paints the Oval Office, the President and the Cabinet, in the real light of the Incorporated Estates of Dearth: venal, fatuous, and deadly.
Fiction Gutted: The Establishment and the Novel
You set the price! Words: 31,140. Language: English. Published: January 31, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Contemporary philosophy, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Fiction is too dangerous to established interests, too powerful, moreso than nonfiction because of its extra aesthetic appeals, and because it can contain nonfiction, in virtually every sense; thus, the ideological controls are tighter for fiction than nonfiction. Fiction is too useful, too popular, too influential not to be domineered and gutted in central ways by the status quo.
Texas MFA: Canocanayesatetlo
You set the price! Words: 91,330. Language: English. Published: October 29, 2009 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Adventure » General
Texas once was Mexico, once indigenous land, part of Turtle Island – indigenous descriptor for the continent. Still is. Texas is Latin America, Anglo America, African America, Indigenous America, Asian America. Texas overlaps. Tejas, Teyas – meaning allies, or friends, or possibly "tough guys." What cosmic forces might converge at this point on the old Chisholm cattle trail?
Ganoga
You set the price! Words: 30,150. Language: English. Published: October 29, 2009 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
When the winter moon shines bold I prowl – my favorite time to ski ridgelines high upon blue-black canvas the best time to meet the hunters – eastern coyotes owls bobcats – who launch from dens nests lairs to stalk prey. If the moon is full the sky empty and snow crisp the plateau glows hazy like a cloudy summer day soft and bright even when Luna is not close to whole so intense is the reflection.
Homefront
You set the price! Words: 71,830. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2009 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » General
"Homefront...takes on the Iraq War and the complicity of the common citizen. Set in the United States, the story is told through the words and thoughts of one family and some members of their circle. A year after losing their son during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the novel presents the family’s questions and doubts." -Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
Youthtopia
You set the price! Words: 34,820. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2009 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Satire of high school: Rockview Terminal. Dear Parents, As a former history teacher who has recently suffered a tragic slip and fall in the Rockview Terminal parking lot, upon which I knocked my head quite soundly, putting me out of commission for no little while, I have lately had the opportunity to reflect on the good life as we know it here in Rockview Terminal.