A pointedly jaundiced look at the meaning of sainthood in the modern world, Franklin\u2019s book is, among other things, the outcome of many years spent wondering how we humans went so wildly astray in our treatment of each other and of our shared planetary home. In that vein, Franklin\u2019s multiple narrators embody, confront or critique a panoply of contemporary saints and their symptoms, from Christopher Columbus to Adolph Hitler,from family psychodynamics to globe-encircling hierarchies of power and domination. And all with a smile on their lips and a song in their hearts.<\/p>\n
About the Author:<\/strong> For most of his years as a fixture in Detroit\u2019s Cass Corridor arts, music and politics scene, guitarist Alan Franklin has been best known as a songwriter\/singer with that city\u2019s anarcho ska-punk band, the Layabouts. During that same time, his prose writings have appeared in riverrun magazine<\/em>, the Fifth Estate<\/em>, the Daily Barbarian<\/em>, Subversions <\/em>(Montreal), Dispatch Detroit<\/em>, ThreeFold<\/em> and Autonomedia<\/em>. <\/p>\n Signed copies are now available! <\/strong> A pointedly jaundiced look at the meaning of sainthood in the modern world, Franklin\u2019s book is, among other things, the outcome of many years spent wondering how we humans went so wildly astray in our treatment of each other and of our shared planetary home. In that vein, Franklin\u2019s multiple narrators embody, confront or critique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15178,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[181,364,293,105,369],"product_tag":[466],"class_list":["post-15177","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-anarchism-revolution","product_cat-detroit-lit","product_cat-detroit-writer","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-signed-by-author","product_tag-alan-franklin","product_shipping_class-local-michigan","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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