{"product_id":"acid-west-essays-paperback","title":"Acid West: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbelly\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ecid West\u003c\/i\u003e, Wheeler's stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape his family has called home for seven generations, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities, assembling a cabinet of narrative curiosities: a man who steps from the stratosphere and free-falls to the desert; a treasure hunt for buried Atari video games; a village plagued by the legacy of atomic testing; a lonely desert spaceport; a UFO festival during the paranoid Summer of Snowden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe radical evolution of American identity, from cowboys to drone warriors to space explorers, is a story rooted in southern New Mexico.\u003ci\u003e Acid West\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates this history, clawing at the bounds of genre to reveal a place that is, for better or worse, home. By turns intimate, absurd, and frightening, \u003ci\u003eAcid West\u003c\/i\u003e is an enlightening deep-dive into a prophetic desert at the bottom of America.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. His essays have appeared in many literary journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSonora Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePANK\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He's written feature stories for \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e online and is a coeditor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eWe Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, New Mexico State University, and has an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. He teaches creative writing at Louisiana State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336599691366,"sku":"9780374535803","price":37.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aDExd3Nvcmc2V3U1Sk5MQXBsTEE1Zz09.webp?v=1774612162","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/acid-west-essays-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}