Survivors of a Future That Never Happened
Survivors of a Future That Never Happened
A cultural review, 1974 – 1994 (2022) is a collection of eighteen articles and essays, some previously published in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, American Theater magazine, and Tricycle: the Buddhist Review. This review is mostly about the live and visual arts, but also art neighborhoods, skydiving, poetry, ceramics, barbecue restaurants, cultural theory, Freudian psychology, women’s bodybuilding, Buddhism, Postmodernism, and the politics of race and revolution.
“People usually have no idea of how significant some present events are until they are seen in hindsight. When the importance of these fixed moments in time is chronicled by a gifted storyteller such as Coe, the result is a treasure. The author’s book consists of a compelling series of first-person reflections by an artistic spirit frantically capturing the sights and sounds of an entire generation’s potential…. The author has written a truly personal opus and one that captivates as well as inspires.”
Robert Buccellato, The US Review of Books
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“…this volume reflects Coe’s extraordinary ability to craft smart journalistic profiles of epochal theater and dance artists with the Olympian sweep of an academic researcher and more than a streak of gonzo memoirist.”
– Don Shewey, Critic and Writer
“…a bit of Norman Mailer with a splash of Joan Didion, but all in all, the book has an eclectic style all its own. It’s postmodernism with a smirk and a twinkle. If you were there, you’ll be glad to go back again. If you weren’t there, you’re going to feel as if you were.”
– Des McAnuff, former artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival