Although very different works, both authors infuse their dream landscapes with characters and narrative elements from popular culture. The two new books from Arsenal Pulp Press under review here, Australian author Tom Cho’s extraordinary book of short stories, Look Who’s Morphing, and local poet Billeh Nickerson’s latest collection, Artificial Cherry, are no exception. Many of the narrative strategies of modernism and post-modernism borrow from the non-linear, associative, fragmented world of dreams. Particularly over the past century, as psychoanalysis taught western culture to view dreams as “the royal road to the unconscious” and a progressively secularized society turned to culture, both high and low, rather than religion for shaping myths and frameworks of meaning, this link has been repeatedly acknowledged. Abruptly, rudely, and with the exact callousness that I'd come to expect from him.' The actress refuses to name the man in her book.ĭream dates - where pop culture and nighttime collideĭreams and artistic expression are often intimately related. Esposito goes on to claim the relationship left her in a low place, especially as she was battling celiac disease, adding, 'I became very sad and I felt very alone.' After attending a spiritual convention, Esposito decided to step away from the romance, explaining, 'Within days, my relationship hit an all-time low, and within a week it was over. She writes that despite an 'entire marching band squad of red flags' when she met the mystery man, she fell head over heels, describing him as 'funny, smart, cocky, arrogant and a master manipulator'. The Crash star is set to lift the lid on her life and loves in new tome Jennifer's Way, and she uses the memoir to take aim at an unnamed ex. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receiptĭid Jennifer Esposito call ex-husband Bradley Cooper a 'master manipulator' in new memoir?īradley Cooper's ex-wife Jennifer Esposito has sent gossips into a spin with the release of her book after branding one of her former lovers a 'master manipulator'.

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