Andrei Codrescu, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $9.66 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-52339-3
``Codrescu, author of 22 books of poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs, is a critic-at-large for National Public Radio. Assembled here are his NPR pieces, freestyle columns in which, swimming gleefully against the mainstream, he sounds off--`I...
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Andrei Codrescu. Antibookclub (IPG, dist.), $25 paperback (168p) ISBN 978-0-9838683-3-0
Celebrated Romanian novelist, essayist, radio commentator, and poet Codrescu scribes this eulogy-cum-paean of the printed publication. In tribute, Codrescu narrates his personal memoir as essentially archival and entangled with its textual...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Black Sparrow Press $26.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-57423-098-7
Once best known for activities outside the realm of fiction--as an NPR commentator and editor of the literary journal Exquisite Corpse--Codrescu has also achieved moderate renown as a surrealist poet. The 1995 publication of Blood Countess brought...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Black Sparrow Press $17.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-57423-097-0
Once best known for activities outside the realm of fiction--as an NPR commentator and editor of the literary journal Exquisite Corpse--Codrescu has also achieved moderate renown as a surrealist poet. The 1995 publication of Blood Countess brought...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-80314-2
Leave it to witty NPR commentator, poet, filmmaker (Road Scholar) and author Codrescu (The Blood Countess) to come up with an energetic if somewhat bloated novel about messianic fervor at the dawn of the next millennium. Felicity LeJeune, an...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-312-14316-9
The pieces in this latest collection from Codrescu, writer (The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans) and commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, either have been published previously or were parts of radio broadcasts....
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (347p) ISBN 978-0-684-80244-2
Codrescu, journalist, poet, NPR commentator and filmmaker, has now written an ambitious first novel based on the fantastically grotesque character of a real-life Hungarian aristocrat. The novel tells two stories: the third-person tale of 16th-century
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Andrei Codrescu, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-11107-6
Codrescu ( Road Scholar ) is well-known as a freewheeling editorialist of the American radio airwaves, and as a kind of American consciousness: his alternative sensibility gets and loses its bearings cogently, searching for fresh perspectives. This...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-312-09354-9
These essays by the sharp and ingratiating Codrescu ( Road Scholar ) rove all over the place, and readers should be ready to do likewise. The author, a Transylvanian-born poet, a longtime resident of the U.S. and a commentator for National Public...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Avon Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71373-8
This report of the jubilation and disenchantment of revolution makes an excellent companion volume to Codrescu's earlier memoir, The Life and Times of an Involuntary Genius. (June)
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Andrei Codrescu, Author William Morrow & Company $21 (249p) ISBN 978-0-688-08805-7
Poet and National Public Radio commentator Codrescu ( Belligerence ) was born in Romania, left as a teenager and returned to observe the shocks and joys of revolution from December 1989 to January 1991. This report of his homecoming, jubilation and...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Coffee House Press $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-918273-85-7
In this extraordinarily inaccessible volume, Codrescu has parlayed an intensely private vision into poetry that stubbornly refuses to enthrall or enlighten. The poet's attention often shifts between unrelated ideas, ensuring the reader's constant...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author . Free Press $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-86800-4
Poet, novelist, essayist and much-admired NPR commentator Codrescu (The Blood Countess) offers a ribald history of the final years of the infamous satyr. The novel imagines Giacomo Casanova—the son of an Italian actor, who began his career as
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $17.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-201-12194-0
Instead of McLuhan's rosily interactive global village, essayist and poet-provocateur Codrescu, National Public Radio commentator, sees emerging a ``new electronic globe'' that stifles human creativity, thought and imagination. In ``shopping-mall...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $17 (198p) ISBN 978-0-201-12183-4
Codrescu, author of 22 books of poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs, is a critic-at-large for National Public Radio. Assembled here are his NPR pieces, freestyle columns in which, swimming gleefully against the mainstream, he sounds off--``I believe
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Coffee House Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-918273-32-1
This collection of stories by the Romanian-born poet flies in the face of current literary trends. The language is lush, and the content has a political edge. The title story is a dialogue between the author's European and American selves. ""A Bar...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20294-1
Prolific poet, memoirist, novelist and National Public Radio commentator Codrescu (Hail Babylon!, The Blood Countess etc.) offers a rousing new collection of essays, full of surprises, treats and provocations. In the title essay, he argues that the...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Black Sparrow Press $15 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57423-013-0
""Language did not seem all that important,"" writes the Romanian-born Andrei Codrescu in the introduction to his Alien Candor: Selected Poems 1970-1995. ""The main thing was being a poet."" Codrescu, who cheerfully admits that he was just learning...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Dell Publishing Company $8.3 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-22191-3
NPR commentator and filmmaker Codrescu's first novel alternates between a pathological 16th-century Hungarian countess and her present-day descendant, a journalist seeking to come to grips with contemporary Europe. (Aug.)
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-57098-4
Codrescu warns of a ``new electronic globe'' where machines and gadgets are stifling creativity, thought and imagination. These are ``acute if alarmist essays for a rebirth of the imagination, with a nod to surrealism and Dada,'' said PW. Codrescu ``
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Princeton University Press $16.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-691-13778-0
This Zagat-sized handbook, a Dadaist chop suey showcasing the astonishing intellectual range of English professor and NPR commentator Codrescu (New Orleans, Mon Amour), is arranged alphabetically and topically, which permits one to dip in or to read
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Andrei Codrescu, Author Black Sparrow Press $32.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-57423-160-1
An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards) usefully gathers together two of Andrei Codrescu's earlier memoirs, the 1975 Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius and the 1983 In America's Shoes, along with a new preface...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author . Algonquin $14 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56512-505-6
In this lovely collection of very short essays (many two pages long), gravelly voiced NPR commentator Codrescu sketches finely honed portraits of a fabled city and its equally fabled inhabitants. The author, who has called the Big Easy home for two...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56512-372-4
Like many modern heroes, the titular protagonist of Codrescu's latest novel knows neither what he wants nor where he's going. So when the devil appears, Wakefield, a well-read motivational speaker, does what any good literary character would
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Andrei Codrescu, Author . Coffee House $25 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56689-146-2
Codrescu, certainly not unknown as a poet, and widely recognizable as a cranky cultural commisar on public radio, has written a book that is valuable in the way that, say, Pete Townshend's solo records were, as crafty expressions of a guy whose...
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Andrei Codrescu, Author, David Graham, Photographer Hyperion Books $19.45 (193p) ISBN 978-1-56282-878-3
Approached by a TV producer to make a documentary about a drive across the U.S., Codrescu, Rumanian-born poet and commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered , declined. He didn't drive. But after pondering the tradition of American
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Andrei Codrescu, Author, David Graham, Photographer Hyperion Books $12.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8081-2
The Romanian-born poet and NPR commentator chronicles his colorful experiences while traversing the U.S. (Oct.)
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Andrei Codrescu, Author, David Graham, Photographer St. Martin's Press $25 (203p) ISBN 978-0-312-19831-2
National Public Radio commentator and house cynic Codrescu escaped communist Romania at age 19 and has had few kind words for the Soviet system since. Who better, then, to suss out the condition of the great bearded Red and his country? ""I wanted...
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