On to the Next Dream Paul Madonna 9780872867420

Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the "tech wars" transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco's overheated boomtown housing market, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience, and to capture the complex, highly charged atmosphere of a city--and a life--being forced through a painful transition. In a series of drawings and stories, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city's brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately, in real life and in his comic. Absurd, maddening, and all-too-poignant, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. "For years I've been intrigued and charmed by Paul Madonna's careful and thoughtful drawings of overlooked nooks and by-ways of San Francisco. In his new book he now combines them with manic, delirious, and increasingly paranoid writings as he struggles with the all-consuming City dilemma of gentrification; of who came first, who gets to stay, which wave of usurpers is more 'real' and deserving than the next, and finally, what happens when someone decides it's your turn to go. Beautiful and engaging."--Sandow Birk, visual artist "Madonna has created a kind of San Francisco Realism, details so absurd, cruel, and beautiful that they can only come from our infuriating home. If Charlie Kaufman squatted in an illegal sublet in Armistead Maupin's mind, this would be the lovely tenant."--Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life "Paul Madonna's On to the Next Dream is bleak, terrifying, hilarious and lovely."--MariNaomi, author and illustrator of Turning Japanese "Simply delightful. I really don't like much out there, I really don't, but On to the Next Dream I couldn't put down. It was sharp, clever, honest, and maybe the funniest book on eviction ever written." --New Yorker cartoonist and New York Times bestselling author, Bob Eckstein, Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores Praise for Everything is its own reward by Paul Madonna: "The book is fantastic. Of time and tenderness. Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text. Ethereal and serious at once. The book is its own reward."--Maira Kalman, illustrator "Mesmerizing ...When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words--sometimes thought-provoking one-liners such as 'You don't get anywhere without searching' and sometimes long, meandering sections of dialogue and story--the effect is haunting."--Oprah.com Paul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series "All Over Coffee" and the author of two books, All Over Coffee and Everything is its own reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.

Galleys available by request National Print Campaign: Send advance copies to the following publications: The Believer, Bookforum, Bomb, The NY Times, The New Yorker, LA Times, n+1, Boston Review, Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, American Book Review, Brooklyn Rail, Juxtapoz, among others Regional interest: SF Chronicle, SF Weekly, 7x7, San Francisco Magazine, Sunset Magazine Trades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal National Radio Campaign: Literary & arts programs including KQED Forum, KALW Your Call & West Coast Live in the Bay Area, WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show and Studio 360, KCRW with Michael Silverblatt Online & Social Media Campaign: Pitch interviews & reviews to: The Rumpus, Largehearted Boy, LitHub, Brainpickings, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Slate, LARB, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Litseen, Hoodline Promotion through paulmadonna.com and Paul's Twitter & Facebook account. City Lights Facebook (32K likes), City Lights Twitter (103K followers), City Lights Instagram (10K followers), and etc.! Excerpts in: Will pursue Zyzzyva, Bomb, Eleven/Eleven Journal Blurbs: Sandow Birk and MariNaomi, among others

Book Information
ISBN 9780872867420
Author Paul Madonna
Format Hardback
Page Count 96
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 255g