TY - ABST T1 - "The Barn Raising" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Contrast between the elaborate plans for a utopia to be adopted by government and the actual eutopia of small town cooperation.

JF - In the Air PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore, MD N1 -

Originally published in Mesechabe

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fast Fiddling; The Comic Adventures of 3 Radical Collectives in New England Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four issues each about three communal eutopias: Bottom Luck Farm--homesteaders in Northern Vermont, El Bohio--urban activist collective in Hartford, and Nickelodeon--folk rock band in Wendell, Mass. In each case the issues follow the community from the first days through troubled times to either a degree of success, failure, or simply moving on to something else.

PB - Penny Each Press CY - Thetford, VT VL - 12 issues U2 -

Illus. Ronni Solbert

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1979 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume gives the history of Nghsi-Altai (29-39) and focuses on the "population lottery" which uses a lottery to reduce the population by choosing a family to exile. The family chosen is the family at the center of Book III. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1978 and 1979 Nichols, The Harditts of Sawna.

PB - New Directions CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Meaning of Festivals." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 26. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin. (New York: New Directions, 1973), 70-75; and "Nghsi-Altai: An excerpt from the novel Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 33. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1976), 117-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Harditts of Sawna. Book III of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1979 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of four about eutopia in a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology. This volume focuses on village life through a single family, the Harditts. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1978 and 1979 Nichols, Exile.

PB - New Directions CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Harvesting the Wind: An excerpt from the novel Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 31. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1975), 26-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garh City. Book II of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of four about a eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology. This volume describes a technologically sophisticated city (e.g., they have monorails and an advanced solar power system) with traditional kinships systems. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1979 (2) Nichols.

PB - New Directions CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arrival. Book 1 of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a four volume eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology, and the novel includes a number of stories and poems from Nghsi-Altai. The protagonists who visit the country include Santiago Alvarez (1919-98), a Cuban filmmaker, William Blake (1757-1827), Jack Kerouac (1922-69), and William Morris (1834-96) among other writers. See also 1978 and 1979 (2) Nichols. 

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