{"product_id":"lives-of-eminent-sorcerers-isbn-9781965874295","title":"Lives of Eminent Sorcerers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn ensorcelling collection of fantastical stories within an encyclopedia frame narrative.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLives of Eminent Sorcerers: And Other Readings\u003c\/i\u003e is an ensorcelling collection of literary ephemera that encompasses the history of ideas of an alternate world in the tradition of Ursula K. LeGuin and Clark Ashton Smith. Drawing from history, religion, philosophy, and myth, Ed Halter assembles an encyclopedia story cycle that places the reader as a participant of voyages across endless oceans and pilgrimages to lost temples, as well as a witness to incantatory miracles and hidden rituals.Ed Halter is a writer and curator living in New York City, and a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for cinema in all its forms. His publications include \u003ci\u003eFrom Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eMass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2015, with Lauren Cornell), \u003ci\u003eFrom the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2018, with Barney Rosset) and over two decades of writing for \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCinema Scope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Criterion Collection\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Joe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMousse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRhizome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriple Canopy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice,\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He has taught at Bard College since 2005, where he is currently Critic in Residence.","brand":"Inpatient Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532164968677,"sku":"NP9781965874295","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lives-of-eminent-sorcerers-isbn-9781965874295","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}