Starting out as a dirt fairground track for horses, the Stafford Motor Speedway rose to become one of the most prominent forces in New England Stock Car Racing. Cars began racing at Stafford in 1940 and NASCAR has sanctioned the facility since 1959. Clarence Benton sold the speedway to Malcom Barlow who paved the track in early 1967. Barlow went broke in mid-1970 and leased the track to Jack Arute who, along with his brother Chuck, bought the speedway in 1971.

The Asphalt Modified Years at Stafford Motor Speedway: By the Grace of God and 600 Horsepower

Smith, Phil

History

Phil Smith

Cinderella

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

PERRAULT, CHARLES

Children's Books

Troll Communications Llc

Periods: Selected Writings 1972-1987 (No 23)

Literature & Fiction

Demise, Phil

Poetry

Gegenschein

"Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways ... is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a parody of handbooks and manifestos, a formal subversion in the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's collaborations with Harley Parker, with their resistance of cover-to-cover trajectory... ...despite its 'handbook' guise, Mythogeography offers neither practical application nor theoretical rubric. For example, the book begins with a map legend. Rather than wed hieroglyphic stamps to functional signifiers, they indicate 'pylons', 'tripods', 'benchmarks', 'wormholes', 'footnotes within footnotes', et cetera. These symbols continue through the manuscript, along the outer margins of the page, but they defy consonance with the text. This lends the book a complexity that parodies and rejects navigation, adding a layer of abstruse anti-meaning... ... The puckish nature of Mythogeography, alternating its informal punk aesthetic with postmodern academic patois, demands that we suspend our disbelief and embrace its stream of consciousness. With its manifold purposes, as travel guide, fiction, memoir, and encyclopedia, Smith's writing gives this impression of medleyed voices... The author's dedication to his thematically complex and inaccessible structure is impressive. His subject lends itself to improvised form, and the book, in its codified, non-linear construction, is distinguished from other works on related subjects. ... The book invites comparison to Iain Sinclair's London Orbital (a circumnavigation of London's M25 highway on foot) although Mythogeography does not have Sinclair's site-specific concentration. It also seems a close relative of the artist Patrick Keiller's series of films about England's changing landscape (London, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins), which similarly meld fiction and fact. That these works are all a product of European, specifically British, psychogeography is not coincidental... Mythogeography, with its self-referential and folkloric sensibilities, also owes a debt to McLuhan and Jorge Luis Borges, for whom the architecture of the book was a primary theme. Philosophies of space and mapping are not alien to the history and theory of the book, and Smith demonstrates a unique understanding of this relationship between subject and form. From a review in Journal of Cultural Geography

Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways - Compiled from the diaries, manifestos, notes, prospectuses, records and everyday utopias of the Pedestrian Resistance

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Triarchy Press Ltd

Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance: A Handbook

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find a site and generate a performance beyond the theatre building.

Sports & Outdoors

Springer

Performing Arts

Red Globe Press

Good Cop, Dead Cop

Detective Lieutenant Jake Reed runs Hollywood Detective Division. He's pondering the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in the Hollywood Hills when he is stunned to receive a call form Mitch Thacker, a former partner from twenty years ago. Jake had assumed Thacker was long since dead from alcoholism. When Mitch finally persuades a reluctant Jake to meet the next day for a cup of coffee, the two men begin to resolve old differences. Their renewed friendship gets feisty on occasion and humorous on others. They unintentionally get involved in a minor incident which quickly develops into a complex investigation involving high placed corrupt officials, crooked cops, a headless corpse and the Mafia. The story is based on real events and told by the guys who've been there. A major investigation full of twists and turns, a variety of characters and the real dialogue of street smart detectives reveals the real L.A.P.D.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ruchhoft, Bob

Thrillers & Suspense

AuthorHouse

Keweenaw Bay Songs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Art of Top Cow: Legacy

Silvestri, Marc

Hawkins, Matt

Individual Artists

IMAGE COMICS +

What I Didn't Learn in Real Estate School*: *And Not Just About Real Estate

Business & Money

Taddeo, Ann

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Smith, Phil. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Smith, Phil