[D66] An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City

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  Several Ways To Die In Mexico City


        An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City


          Kurt Hollander


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In the ’80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York 
and published /The Portable Lower East/, life there was particularly 
rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and 
roust its residents. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the 
equally rough climes of Mexico City, making his living writing and 
photographing for /The Guardian/, /The New York Times/, /Los Angeles 
Times/, and many other publications.

Hollander’s visual and textual extravaganza, /Several Ways to Die in 
//Mexico City/, provides a perspective of this extraordinary city that 
could only have been caught by an observant outsider who lived in all 
its nooks and crannies for over two decades.

Crammed with caustic but fair observations of the city’s history, food, 
cults, drugs, and buildings, Hollander proves that he can love a city 
and culture that also kills its inhabitants softly. The book contains 
dozens of extraordinary photographs.

While living high in Mexico City, *Kurt Hollander* edited /poliester/, 
the renowned bilingual art magazine about the Americas. He also directed 
the feature film /Carambola/ and wrote a successful series of children’s 
books. Grove Press published the /Portable Lower East Side /anthology in 
1994.

/“An amazing book that takes the reader on a wild, woolly, and 
consistently witty death trip, covering everything from Mexico’s rich 
history of human sacrifice to the dangers of eating, drinking and 
breathing in its capital.”
*— */*Harold Schechter, author of /The Whole Death Catalog/*

“. . . thank Kurt Hollander for leading us through a city in which many 
would not have the heart, lungs, stomach, or street smarts to survive.”
*/*— New York Journal of Books*/*

“Several Ways to Die in Mexico City stumbled into my lap and changed the 
way I think about what I eat and drink.”
/*– Hot Reads*/


            ISBN: 978-1-936239-48-1 | eISBN: 978-1-936239-49-8 | 6x9 ,
            245 pages | $22.95

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