"AUTO ANTENNA"
AN ENCHANTED GUIDE TO SANTA FE
& VAGUE BLUEPRINT TO THE COSMOS
by Stavo Mustang Craft
Available everywhere in print, audiobook & e-book formats.
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DESCRIPTION
Gold Medal Winner of the 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards for Best Book 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.
"Auto Antenna" is the Gold Winner of the prestigious NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS in the category of Visionary Fiction. The NIEA competition is open to small presses, university presses, and self-published authors, and is considered one of the Top 5 awards for indie publishers.
WHAT READERS SAY
"Auto Antenna never stops taking you to places you have wanted to be taken in a book."
"An ultra-hip 21st century cousin novel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
"A manual for liberating your life from 100 casual illusions."
"The far out Artist's Way & Artist's Guide to the Galaxie."
"Auto Antenna is a permission slip to delight in the pleasures of consciousness, revel in curiosity, and embrace the vast cosmic playground we call reality."
"Ethereal eloquence."
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN (Excerpt in Pasatiempo Summer Guide) 1 2 3
Richard Eeds Radio Show on KTRS 103.7 SANTA FE
TAOS NEWS ("Tempo" Arts Supplement)
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL (Arts Lifestyle)
BUY LOCAL!
"Auto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos" is available for order, stream, and download, as well as being found at these fine locations in Santa Fe: Auberge Bishops Lodge (Two Dogs Cafe), Meow Wolf, Cafe Fina, Black Diamond Curio, Modern Folk Ware, Travel Bug, Iconik Coffee Red, Ark Books, and Tesuque Village Market.
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