Harmony Korine A Crack-Up at the Race Riots

Harmony Korine A Crack-Up at the Race Riots, Paperback out April 16, 2013

via Drag City

A NOVEL SETTING ABOUT THE BASTARD WISHER

"It's about a race war and it happens in Florida. And the Jewish people sit in trees. And the black people are run by M.C. Hammer. And the whites are run by Vanilla Ice. I wanted to write the Great American Choose Your Own Adventure novel."  
--Harmony Korine, addressing a national television audience, 10/17/97

Back in print from Harmony Korine, A Crack-Up At the Race Riots was originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998. Korine's first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art - but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-color jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other missing scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with fingers prying in the cracks and feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol' world.

This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least...

A Crack-Up At the Race Riots also includes some other semi/attempted/quasi lists/scripts, a few letters from Tupac and a set of eleven suicide notes with room included for your signature. So that's the book in a nutshell. I don't know, maybe you had to be there. But it has become a great cult classic and it's back in print, so be there now, what the fuck?  

Harmony Korine is the self-educated thirty-nine-year-old who wrote and directed the controversial films Trash Humpers, Mister Lonely, Julien Donkey-Boy and Gummo. His new film Spring Breakers was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Korine was raised in the carnival and lives in Tennessee with his wife and kid.

"The new heir, the man, the sweet edge of the future" - Jim Carroll, author of The Basketball Diaries

"I was struck from the very beginning that there is a totally independent & new voice in writing. I believe that [he] is a great talent as a writer" - Werner Herzog

Lists In This Book
Titles of Books I Will Write
Movies
Ten Ethnic Adolesecent Atrocities: Pictures
Books Found in Monty Clift's Basement
The Most Famous Home Movie
Bowery Boys
Rumors
Tupac Shakur's Ten Favorite Novels
Three Or Four Claims to Fame
Ethnic Atrocities: Pictures Continue
Son's Favorite Foods

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM DRAG CITY
The Collected Fanzines DC380 Softcover Book
Trash Humpers DC439 DVD
Mister Lonely - Music From a Film By Harmony Korine - OST by Jason Spaceman & Sun City Girls DC360 LP/CD

Harmony Korine Online Here