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Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004)

by Nathaniel Knaebel (Editor)

Other authors: Kevin Baker (Contributor), Ray Bradbury (Contributor), Angela Carter (Contributor), Michael Chabon (Contributor), Harry Crews (Contributor)21 more, Susan Dickinson (Contributor), Katherine Dunn (Contributor), Lee Durkee (Contributor), Maxim Gorky (Contributor), Robert Graves (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), Robert Hough (Contributor), Ellen Hunnicut (Contributor), Franz Kafka (Contributor), Arthur H. Lewis (Contributor), Johnny Meah (Contributor), Steven Millhauser (Contributor), Joseph Mitchell (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Mark Richard (Contributor), Gwendoline Riley (Epilogue), Fred Rosen (Contributor), James Taylor (Contributor), Jim Tully (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), Eudora Welty (Contributor)

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Everyone loves a carnival, whether it's the Big Top or a traveling midway kicking up dust. These roving extravaganzas are as amusing as they are mysterious and as innocent as they are sordid. Step Right Up is a one-of-a-kind anthology that collects the finest literature and the most absorbing first-person accounts about carnivals, sideshows, and the circus, capturing all of the spectacle and sensation of this unusual and treasured tradition. A colorful assortment of characters populate the fairgrounds and circus tents of this unique collection from circus legends like P. T. Barnum and Otis Jordan the Frog Prince to a motley crew of ride monkeys and rubes. Step Right Up takes the reader everywhere from a small village in Romania to the streets of Coney Island and offers everything from Fred Rosen's account of the scandalous demise of Grady "Lobster Boy" Stiles Jr. to imaginative fiction like Michael Chabon's macabre take on the origin of clowns. The bizarre romance and mystery of the world's oldest and oddest traveling institution come to life in selections from Katherine Dunn, Kevin Baker, Jim Tully, Flannery O'Connor, Lee Durkee, Robert Hough, Michael Chabon, Fred Rosen, Susan Dickinson, Joseph Michell, Edora Welty, and Ellen Hunnicut.… (more)
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Knaebel, NathanielEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Baker, KevinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bradbury, RayContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Carter, AngelaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chabon, MichaelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Crews, HarryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dickinson, SusanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dunn, KatherineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Durkee, LeeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gorky, MaximContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Graves, RobertContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hoagland, EdwardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hough, RobertContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hunnicut, EllenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kafka, FranzContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lewis, Arthur H.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Meah, JohnnyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Millhauser, StevenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Richard, MarkContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Everyone loves a carnival, whether it's the Big Top or a traveling midway kicking up dust. These roving extravaganzas are as amusing as they are mysterious and as innocent as they are sordid. Step Right Up is a one-of-a-kind anthology that collects the finest literature and the most absorbing first-person accounts about carnivals, sideshows, and the circus, capturing all of the spectacle and sensation of this unusual and treasured tradition. A colorful assortment of characters populate the fairgrounds and circus tents of this unique collection from circus legends like P. T. Barnum and Otis Jordan the Frog Prince to a motley crew of ride monkeys and rubes. Step Right Up takes the reader everywhere from a small village in Romania to the streets of Coney Island and offers everything from Fred Rosen's account of the scandalous demise of Grady "Lobster Boy" Stiles Jr. to imaginative fiction like Michael Chabon's macabre take on the origin of clowns. The bizarre romance and mystery of the world's oldest and oddest traveling institution come to life in selections from Katherine Dunn, Kevin Baker, Jim Tully, Flannery O'Connor, Lee Durkee, Robert Hough, Michael Chabon, Fred Rosen, Susan Dickinson, Joseph Michell, Edora Welty, and Ellen Hunnicut.

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Introduction / Nathaniel Knaebel --
Circus music : for clowns, lions, and solo trapeze / Edward Hoagland --
From Something wicked this way comes / Ray Bradbury --
From Suite for calliope / Ellen Hunnicutt --
Carny / Harry Crews --
From The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain --
The frog prince / Johnny Meah --
Lady Olga / Joseph Mitchell --
The passing of Philomena Marker / James Taylor --
From Geek love / Katherine Dunn --
From Lobster boy / Fred Rosen --
From Nights at the circus / Angela Carter --
First sorrow / Franz Kafka --
The knife thrower / Steven Millhauser --
With folded hands forever / Jim Tully --
From Dreamland / Kevin Baker --
Boredom / Maxim Gorky --
The big ferris wheel / Robert Graves --
From Carnival / Arthur H. Lewis --
Keela, the outcast Indian maiden / Eudora Welty --
A temple of the holy ghost / Flannery O'Connor --
The circus eighty years ago : the wages of sin is death / Susan Dickinson --
From The final confession of Mabel Stark / Robert Hough --
The great showman dead / from The New York Times --
Where blue is blue / Mark Richard --
Epilogue / Gwendoline Riley.
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