Ryan has also served as an editor for Essay Press, which publishes digital and print books.
He is the author of two plays about his experiences in Iraq, Returns and The Interrogation Room, as well as Letters from Abu Ghraib (Essay Press, 2008), a collection of e-mails he wrote while serving in Iraq.
He edits Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming's MFA program.
If you're in Amsterdam and want to check out the Empire world premiere, the video installation will be on view daily from 9 AM to 11 PM at the Brakke Grond during the IDFA, November 15 to 25. Find photos, essays, press links and more from the Empire project at: sinisterhumanists.tumblr.com.tumblr.com
The 10 literary essays at the heart of IN PRAISE OF MESSY LIVES: Essays (Dial Press, $25) are wicked and endearing; the language is conversational and burnished to a hard shine.
This is from his "Minor Monuments: Selected Essays" (Ecco Press).
"We wanted these essays to press the connection between the goofy and the profound".
Reprinted in W.N. Locke and A.D. Booth, eds., Machine Translation of Languages: Fourteen Essays, MIT Press, 1955.
Han stayed in Beijing for four years, driving and writing; volumes of his essays included "Press Release 2003" and, in 2005, "And I Drift," as well as the novels "Like a Speeding Youth" (2002), about a pair of struggling ghost writers, and "Riot in Chang'an City" (2004), the story of a reluctant martial-arts master.
I also don't buy the frequent assertions made in catalog essays and press releases that the artist's use of petroleum-based foams hints at an environmental consciousness, although Mr. de Jong is obviously capitalizing on the materials' contradictory nature — so light, yet so indestructible; so widely used, yet so environmentally incorrect.
While the elements of this work were being slowly assembled, David published a book of her favourites of her essays and press articles, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (1984).
