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Songs of Vagabonds, Misfits, and Sinners (2010. Auflage)

von Ken Wohlrob

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From the author of THE LOVE BOOK, a collection of gritty tales set in New York City, a town full of characters who are as out of place in their own skins as they are in the ever-evolving neighborhoods they call home. - In an old Italian neighborhood that is not so Italian anymore, two locals who spent their entire lives there suddenly feel out of place. - For Ramon, a janitor from South Williamsburg, art is life. He talks to paintings. Sometimes they talk back to him. Now, he thinks he has just created a masterpiece. - If Pat can scrape together ten grand, he can buy his wife two more months of medical treatment. He has a scheme, but everything has a cost. - In Washington Heights, the highest point in Manhattan, life is going downhill for Liz and her daughter Haley, who are barely making ends meet, thanks to Mom's new occupation downtown. - Albert Claimus wakes up from a booze-fueled sleep in his Hell's Kitchen apartment to find out that he's being watched. But by whom?… (mehr)
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Titel:Songs of Vagabonds, Misfits, and Sinners
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Info:Bully Press (2010), Paperback, 148 pages
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)

While making my way through Ken Wohlrob's Songs of Vagabonds, Misfits and Sinners, I couldn't help but think about something I read a few years ago about author Nelson Algren, of how he forever had a love/hate relationship with the first novel he ever wrote, which he blamed on the politically active, overly earnest liberals he was hanging out with in the Great Depression 1930s, who in good Stalinist style felt that artists accomplish nothing if they aren't directly commenting on the ills of the human condition, a sort of radical form of Social Realism that resulted in an entire decade of preachy morality tales that by and large have been completely forgotten by history. And that's because, although he certainly gets an A for effort, Wohlrob lays on the Progressive lecturing here awfully thick, a 21st-century Little Dorritt that's never satisfied with a disaster befalling a plucky immigrant hero when five disasters can befall them instead; just take the second story in the collection as a good example, "Job in Williamsburg," in which a long-suffering Spanish janitor learns to paint in a lush Renaissance style in honor of his pious, dead mother, just to have his work ridiculed by cackling hipsters at a Brooklyn group exhibition, only to find out that no less than the Museum of Modern Art ended up buying one of his pieces, only to find out (and I'm not making this up) that they only bought it literally so they could hang it in their public bathroom, as an ironic statement about its worthlessness in a postmodern age, a message I'm not sure could even be delivered more heavily-handed, unless maybe you show poor Ramon writhing on the floor while being viciously kicked by a group of frat boys in business suits, smoking cigars and gleefully chanting, "WHITE MALES RULE! WHITE MALES RULE!" Although his writing style is actually not that bad, I have the sad suspicion that Wohlrob will one day look back on this book with the same kind of ruefulness that Algren always looked at Somebody In Boots; and I encourage him in future stories to find more inventive ways to get across the points he's trying to make, and to leave the preaching at church where it belongs.

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From the author of THE LOVE BOOK, a collection of gritty tales set in New York City, a town full of characters who are as out of place in their own skins as they are in the ever-evolving neighborhoods they call home. - In an old Italian neighborhood that is not so Italian anymore, two locals who spent their entire lives there suddenly feel out of place. - For Ramon, a janitor from South Williamsburg, art is life. He talks to paintings. Sometimes they talk back to him. Now, he thinks he has just created a masterpiece. - If Pat can scrape together ten grand, he can buy his wife two more months of medical treatment. He has a scheme, but everything has a cost. - In Washington Heights, the highest point in Manhattan, life is going downhill for Liz and her daughter Haley, who are barely making ends meet, thanks to Mom's new occupation downtown. - Albert Claimus wakes up from a booze-fueled sleep in his Hell's Kitchen apartment to find out that he's being watched. But by whom?

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