Paranoid & Apocalyptic | Andy Sturdevant

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Paranoid and Apocalyptic: Titles from the Elsewhere Library 1962-1988

Much of the period in which Sylvia Gray acquired the Elsewhere library - roughly 1953-1997 - was a golden age of American paranoia from _____ and the Cold War to the rise of fundamentalist Christianity … here are five paperbacks that express this anxiety.

Fail-Safe, 1962

The Late Great Planet Earth, 1970

All The President’s Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, 1975

Amerika, Brauana Pouns, 1987

Is Elvis Alive?, - Gail Brewer-Giorgio,1988

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Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant

Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.

Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011

During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.

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