Description"Remember when we were young and first dreamed of a life of writing? It would be like living as a spy, or in a movie.
And we are within it, animal and timeless: inhabitants, strangers, the writing, the vengeance; the heartrock of Earth\'s outer space." --Brandon Shimoda "Harsh and sexy and at all times uniquely American." --Jesse Bercowetz.
AMERICANS, GUESTS, OR US is the realization and destruction of the dream.
What remains is the encyclopedia, from which Caren Beilin\'s writings have been torn--more hallucinatory, masturbatory and sociopathic, while also more bold, brave and beautiful, than our minds once conceived.
Everything has burned or is gone with the wind.
Our mothers and fathers are dead.
At some point, we actually began to live that life, yet with the humiliation and miraculousness warped.
In the center was the dream of the writing, taking shape as the unfolding encyclopedia of our lives--heroic, magical, wise.
Not a word, a moment, would be again lowly.
Everywhere clarified lush, miraculous images.
People, good and evil, were characters.
Pain and humiliation could be used.
Life suddenly made sense and could be endured insofar as it could be written.
Description"Remember when we were young and first dreamed of a life of writing? It would be like living as a spy, or in a movie
