Napkin Approach (The Initial Assemblage)

Come journey with shen Brevard—from winter of ’98 to summer of ’05. Seven years 13 essays One snippet from a storybook reverie Saunter and weave through significant musings inspired by: east Asia’s techno mega-city: Tokyo, the Atlantic seaboard’s (brash with class) NYC with Brooklyn-n-Queens, northern Pacific’s famed sophisticated ‘City by the Bay’ (San Francisco) and the Golden State’s venerable yet sprawling hiptropolis: Los Angeles. From a native Californian’s wanderlust to a fellow American’s lament and disgust over their nation’s chaotic reflection of magnificence mixed with devastating self-inflicted conflict. Same person. Different angles. Grounded in an ever shifting upward perspective. Political? Not really. Poignant? Yes. More importantly, this ‘writer-to-be’ invites you to look within—in order—to understand the world without. One-part neutral. Two-parts fresh-n-fun. Half part melancholy. Half part Cosmopolitan. Heed the call. Embark upon a most glorious, verbally artistic, Americana experience.Brevard, Shen is the author of 'Napkin Approach (The Initial Assemblage)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595371853 and ISBN 059537185X.