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James Howard Kunstler December 2007

James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948 , New York City , New York ) is an American author , civilization critic , speaker and blogger . Kunstler's partly apocalyptic cultural criticism is one of the foundations of New Urbanism in the USA.

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Kunstler comes from a Jewish family. The parents divorced when he was eight years old. His father was in the diamond trade and his stepfather was a screenwriter on Broadway after their parents' early divorce . The small town idylls featured in many of his books take up aspects of summer vacation camps in New New Hampshire . He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts High School of Music & Art in 1966 and received a major in theater studies from the State University of New York at Brockport .

Kunstler initially worked for Rolling Stone magazine, among others . From 1975 he worked as a freelance writer in Saratoga Springs . He was temporarily married to the author Jennifer Armstrong .

Positions

In the sense of a secular millenarianism , Kunstler is particularly known for apocalyptic conclusions from the global oil production maximum . In the run-up to the Year 2000 problem , however, he had already made a number of predictions that were viewed as exaggerated in retrospect. He has been heavily criticized in some cases for his pro-Israel stance in the Middle East conflict .

bibliography

Non-fiction Geography of Nowhere (1993) Home from Nowhere (1996) The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (2002) The Long Emergency (2005) Too Much Magic (2012)

Novels The Wampanaki Tales (1979) A Clown in the Moonlight (1981) The Life of Byron Jaynes (1983) An Embarrassment of Riches (1985) Blood Solstice (1986) The Halloween Ball (1987) Thunder Island (1989) Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance (2003) World Made by Hand (2008)

Plays Big Slide (2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about James Howard Kunstler in the catalog of the German National Library
• James Howard Kunstler in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about James Howard Kunstler at Open Library
• James Howard Kunstler Home page
• Blog
• Interviews with artists
  • Chaos in the City. Architecture, Modernism and Peak Oil Production — Interview with James Howard Kunstler
  • Interview in MungBeing Magazine
  • TED Talks: James Howard Kunstler on Suburban Housing Culture 2004

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} J Kunstler: Kunstler Memoirs: Off to College 1966 . J artist. Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2008. 
2. ^ J Kunstler: Kunstler Memoirs: The Station 1957-63 . J artist. Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2008. 
3. ^ Hate mail sent to Jim Kunstler . kunstler.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2009.  
4. ↑ Review of Too Much Magic by James Howard Kunstlser . In: Kirkus Reviews . 3rd July 2012.