<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights/Sister Spit</TitleText>

City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130216 eng

GCDS-9780872865709 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100028220 02 0872865703 03 9780872865709 15 9780872865709 BC 01 338 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights/Sister Spit</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Cha-Ching!</TitleText> 1 A01 Liebegott, Ali Ali Liebegott Ali Liebegott is the author of the award-winning books The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers. In 2010 she took a train trip across America interviewing female poets for a project titled, The Heart Has Many Doors; excerpts from these interviews are posted monthly on The Believer Logger. Her novel Cha-Ching! is forthcoming from Sister Spit Press (City Lights). In addition, she is the founding editor at Writers Among Artists whose first publication, Faggot Dinosaur, was released in 2012. 01 eng 224 20 fiction; gay; lesbian; queer; women 01 Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from SF to NYC, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics. With the signature poet's voice that has won her awards and acclaim, Liebegott investigates the conjoined hearts of hope and addiction in an unforgettable story of what it means to be young and broke in America.Praise for Cha-Ching!"Cha-Ching! is a rush - the clatter of youth on the angry move, the rattling of dreamy gambles in crappy apartments, the desperate crash of falling for someone despite the million reasons why and the bang! bang! bang! of our tender hearts."-Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up"Cha-Ching! is so raw with need that I found myself itching that addict's itch to chase the seemingly impossible."-Karolina Waclawiak, deputy editor of The Believer and author of How to Get Into the Twin Palms"An open-hearted, deeply romantic story about a fucked-up dyke, her pit bull, her search for love, her tenuous grasp on hope, a pretty girl and the literal spin of the wheel."-Sarah Schulman, author of The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination"In the game of American-life-on-the-go hopscotch, Ali Liebegott's heroine Theo just jumped a square ahead of Dean Moriarty. . . . The author's fine writing about gambling is as good as I ever read, including Dostoevski's and the Barthelme Bros. In the end, love, in whatever twisted, pallid form, a love that has little to do with sexuality, is the only answer. . . .Wonderful book."-Andrei Codrescu, author of So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems 02 A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction. 08 "In the game of American-life-on-the-go hopscotch, Ali Liebegott's heroine Theo just jumped a square ahead of Dean Moriarty. Dean's neverending  hustle that energized the existentially desperate young of the 50s, has pretty much gone mainstream. Pills, booze, drunken sex, pick-your-own-reality-TV, and brushes with a fairly humanized welfare system, have despirited the young now even more. At least Kerouac's dharma bums had their anger at the injustices of criminalized homosexuality, illegal drugs, and institutionalized racism, to fuel them. It is now half a century later, and Theo's charming innocence is fully invested in a system that's made freedom just another game. She's a lesbian, but it's no big deal, because she's in every other way, a young urban American desperado. She is also a gambler who excels in the understanding of this royal addiction, which she is trying to kick along with cigarettes, booze, and bars, all legal now. The author's fine writing about gambling is as good as I ever read, including Dostoevski's and the Barthelme Bros. In the end, love, in whatever twisted, pallid form, a love that has little to do with sexuality, is the only answer. In the Fifties as Now there is no other solution for the young. "Suicide and murder/but that's dumb," Ted Berrigan said. Theo and her (maybe) girlfriend, consider both. They come up with the old Beatles song. Wonderful book."-Andrei Codrescu, author of So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100028220/images/87286100028220L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100028220/images/87286100028220S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100028220 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20130401 08 16 oz