Auto Antenna - by Stavo Mustang Craft (Paperback)

About the Book

Auto Antenna is a pulp fiction memoir that explores the unique mixture of art, magic and spirituality as a lifestyle.

Book Synopsis

Gold Medal Winner of the 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards in Visionary Fiction, "Auto Antenna" is a pulp fiction memoir about art, personhood, and an Insider's Guide to Santa Fe. It's a hip metaphysical journey full of liberating insights, from an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade; a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe, who it turns out may not be from this world at all. She drives a turquoise 1959 Ford Galaxie, exploring the unique mixture of 'art, magic, and spirituality as a lifestyle' that has allowed a small town in the desert to become the third largest art market in the country. The atmospheric highs of the City Different delivers fertile terrain for anyone interested in exploring artistic revelry, spiritual seeking, and the process of becoming a person.

A therapist for artists, Cybilline provides keen psychological insight and hilarity into issues of self-construction and perceived success, while identifying the uses of imagination; not just for the purpose of artmaking, but how those same elements play a role in determining personal identity, and even destiny.

With poetic observations and charming fantasia, "Auto Antenna" offers a toolkit for creating a life of sustaining pleasures, purpose, and invention. And at all times remaining a love letter to Santa Fe.

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BOOK REVIEW BLURBS

"A Book about Art that is itself a Work of Art. A Richter scale experience."

- Melissa Polly, "Madroid"

"Transportive with observations so deep and complex that you carefully digest and savor them like fine cuisine. There's philosophy, psychology, and sociology, all in the context of writing so richly detailed and imagined that it feels more like an immersive experience than reading a book."

-Suzanne Greenawalt, Yale University Art Gallery

"Auto Antenna reads like its own genre, brilliantly weaving travelogue, sci-fi, memoir, and manifesto. Unique and Magical."

- Ali Rubinstein, SVP - Disney Imagineering

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The Pulp Fiction Memoir

about engaging every moment

as the creator of your own life and being!

"It's about the way we stitch ourselves together with a little of this energy, a little of that experience, or this subtle influence, or that various half-belief. And always in our personalities, with visible loose threads dangling about, as we are always unfinished and in motion."

"Is the painting itself the staggering accomplishment or all the moments spent painting it? Isn't it, in the end, about creating a beautiful life?"

"I decided not fitting in was probably my thing, not a problem but an answer."

Review Quotes

"Auto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos" by Stavo Mustang Craft blends elements of memoir, fiction, and inspirational guidance into a captivating narrative. The story follows Cybilline, a charismatic and enigmatic figure whose experiences and reflections entertain and enlighten readers about living a life deeply intertwined with art and spirituality. The narrative structure is fluid, mirroring the exploratory and often whimsical journey of its protagonist.

Stavo Mustang Craft's writing is lyrical and insightful, weaving complex themes of personhood, identity, and destiny with a light, engaging touch, that invites readers to look at their own lives through a new, vibrant lens. Readers who enjoy Patti Smith and Tom Robbins will not want to miss Auto Antenna.

- 5 STARS, READERS' FAVORITE