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"Destined for cult status." - Alex Martin, Outsider Writers Collective "David Hoenigman's Burn Your Belongings is a dense narrative of choppy sentences that elude the human desire for story at almost every turn. When read aloud, mantralike, the thick walls of text take on the feel of religious chant, a prayer to weariness and sickness and anxiety. At other times, they flutter with moments of happiness and love, and feel exponentially more like real life than anything Hemingway or any naturalist ever put to paper. In the margins of each page is a different vibrant color collage by Yasutoshi Yoshida. ... The collages add another layer, another conversation, to the book." - Paul Constant, book critic for The Stranger Burn Your Belongings slowly, relentlessly builds the emotional ebb and flow of a love triangle over a period of months, perhaps years. Every fear, joy, doubt, hatred, desire and elation manifests through a litany of interior monologues - from the mundane to the profound and always beautifully lyrical. The accretion of imagery and often frighteningly stark examination of Self and Other create a transformational emotional experience. Hoenigman's brilliance is his ability to transfer language to the reader so that by novel's end, the feelings and observations of the characters become not their memories but the reader's own.

"A brilliant tour de force!" "David Hoenigman's terse, staccato prose is the language of consciousness, and his book not so much anti-narrative as true to the realities of one's inner sense-making, true to the convoluted and seemingly disparate tales we tell ourselves - shifting, elusive tales that are on every page complimented by the vivid heterogeneity of Yasutoshi Yoshida's artwork. In short, Burn Your Belongings is a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise. - Gary J. Shipley, author of Theoretical Animals

Book #1 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Lyrical and funny and wise, Catto's one-of-a-kind family memoir is a stunning valentine to story telling." - Catherine Browder, author of Secret Lives "An intimate, rather than private look at family life, Patricia Catto applies an impeccable ear and a Coppola-like eye to paint a wonderfully exquisite, moving memoir of the Italian-American experience. Grazie!" - Joey Nicoletti, author of Cannoli Gangster "Brisk, frank and always funny... With surpassing compassion, Catto animates the mothers, fathers, seers, ne'er-do-wells, misanthropes and heroes, whose sincerity and humor bring the lost world of Aunt Pig to spiny, sweet, crackling life." -George Guida, author of New York and Other Lovers: Poems Illustrations by Debra Di Blasi. This book is also available in Kindle and fine art limited editions.

A significant percentage of the publisher's proceeds will be donated to environmental organizations. The Color of Being Born contains watercolor paintings and mixed media art by Montana artist Michael Cadieux. Of particular relevance are the artist's controversial Nova Totem paintings that depict an injured planet and emphasize the urgent need for environmental preservation and restoration. The book also contains prose and poetry by prominent writers, artists, scientists, and activists, such as NASA scientist and Battlestar Galactica advisor, Dr. Kevin Grazier; Hugo award-winning artist and writer Ursula Vernon; acclaimed sculptor and architect Martin Huberman; and noted journalist and Vanity Fair editor Alex Shoumatoff; and 11 others generous contributors. A portion of our proceeds from the sale of The Color of Being Born will go toward the National Resources Defense Fund. The book also includes a Giving Index that lists charities chosen by the contributors. The Giving Index enables us to raise funds and awareness for many other worthy environmental charities, alongside the National Resources Defense Fund.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF ART AND WRITINGFULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION"It's pleasant being naked, as swimmer or writer or reader.... Naked's a way of being free, unencumbered by garment or censor. There exists no other way of knowing certain things, or oneself, without stripping away." -from the Preface by Debra Di Blasi, editorOne artist and 54 writers accepted the challenge of creatively defining "dirty" in the 21st Century. Mugi Takei's delicate, profane watercolors position the human body within, on and against nature. While some writers surrendered to play through sexually explicit love poetry, bawdy fiction, threesomes, twosomes, onesomes, and all the delightful fantasies and realities in-between, others suggested genocide to be the real dirt of humanity, or offer sexy, new versions of biblical stories. As an anthology, Dirty: Dirty exhibits the beauty, humor, raunch and invention possible when talented artists and writers tackle a very old subject.THE ARTIST: Mugi TakeiTHE WRITERS: Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins, Jane L. Carman, Kylee Cook, Beth Couture, Dirk Cowan, Justin Dobbs, Trevor Dodge, Rion Woolf, C. M. Connelly, April Gigliotti, Christopher Grimes, Steve Halle, Jeff Hansen, Michael Harold, Garrett Hayes, Jacqueline Heffron, Lily Hoang, Nabila Najwa, Eric Jeitner, Liesl Jobson, Steve Katz, Kimberly Koga, Stacey Levine, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Robert Lopez, Cris Mazza, Joe Milazzo, Kathleen Miller, Scott Million, Theresa A. O'Donnell, Jordan Okumura, Melanie Page, Mitch Parker, Aimee Parkinson, Jack Rees, AE Reiff, Doug Rice, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Davis Schneiderman, Mikal Shapiro, Gary Shipley, Ascot Smith, Rob Stephenson, Helen Tran, Holms Troelstrup, J. A. Tyler, c.vance, Laura Vena, Hal Wert, Lane Williams, Alyssa Wisener, Lidia Yuknavitch

This edition is the short story version of the novel, The Pornographers, and is sold only on Jaded Ibis website, or free with purchase of The Pornographers by Christopher Grimes. Contact the publisher for more information: questions at Jaded Ibis Productions dot com From take-off to landing, these linked stories move at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of "Homeland Security" try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their economic woes. Meanwhile their wives threaten to follow a guru to India in search of their own inner security. Pornographies humorously lays bare serious and real concerns about 21st Century America.

"The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." - Walter Benn Michaels, American literary theorist, and author of The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History "It is a pleasure to think about what Grimes's art is thinking, but the greatest pleasure, like the pleasure of music, is in the unfolding inventions of the language itself." - Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of "Homeland Security" try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their economic woes. Meanwhile their wives threaten to follow a guru to India in search of their own inner security. The Pornographers sizzles with ripe language, humor and serious and real concerns about America in the 21st Century, all bundled with good, old-fashioned dramatic suspense. Oh, and by the way, the novel is written as a single, grammatically-correct sentence.

"AN EXCITING NEW TALENT" - Robert Coover, author of Noir Finalist in Chiasmus Press First Book Competition, Starcherone Press Prize for Innovative Fiction, and Subito Press Annual Book Competition. Recipient of a Creative Arts Council Grant at Brown University. "Stylish blogger, gifted wordsmith, linguistic cinematographer, Roxanne Carter herein charges hard and fast past the current borders of the book and into fresh textual territories all her own. Glamorous Freak is wonderful and wonderfully unsettling work. Reading it you will not be indifferent. Reading it you will listen and listening you will, with Carter, 'be able to recognize the flickering hurricane knocking tree limbs against the door.'" - Laird Hunt, author of The Paris Stories "Roxanne Carter creates a figure of grave and astonishing intelligence, sensitivity and perception: the woman at once so near and so far, so here and so there, haunted seemingly by another narrative, just outside of our reach, and there's something very beautiful about that. And we're astonished that so much longing and mystery can be held in this way in one book. I'd follow this wom aninto any night, into any film, into any day." - Carole Maso, author of Disgrace and AVA Roxanne Carter's sparkling debut fiction is a playful innovative engagement with the mirrored self, stylishly written, wittily framed. An exciting new talent. - Robert Coover, author of Noir

A gorgeous, haunting portrait of the 'we' that lurks in every family. In order to extract something beyond beautiful from ordinary words, c.vance retold his family's history abstractly rather than using the traditional memoir form. Somewhere in the process, the story infected words and the words became fable. Now, the author finds it difficult to remember if his grandfather really built bridges or something else - and in what way his father actually harvested land - and where his parents truly met - and how the world finally ended. In some places, the words succeeded in becoming something beautiful and true; in other places, the fable is more honest than anything that actually happened. Published with 22 full-color drawings by Debra Di Blasi.

FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION Book #3 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Best LGBT Book of 2012" -Laurie Weeks "Anna Joy Springer fabulates a trauma memoir of losing her bipolar lover to AIDS and, in so doing, creates a unique literary form, one that ignores the often fraught line between truth and fiction in pursuit of something more elusive" -American Book Review "A powerful book of love, trauma, loss, and forgiveness." -Lambda Literary "A page turner...electric" -Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette and Culture of One "There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do. I love this book." -Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre "Anna Joy Springer's The Vicious Red Relic, Love is a gnarly siren song of a book.... [O]nce read, it will live perfectly inside you forever." -HTMLGiant "This writing just turns me on. The blatantness. The naming. The pain of becoming and being revealed by way of the prurient requirements of our relations." -The Lit Pub "With intelligence and heart she enlarges the things of which a novel is capable. How very lucky I am to have read it!" -Carole Maso, author of AVA and Break Every Rule "My god, this book is beautiful... Each sentence is a journey." -Doug Rice, author of Between Appear and Disappear and Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest "She writes about sex, lust, passion, power so damn well, too damn well. She doesn't separate any of it. She keeps it close. Tight and scary.... I highly recommend this book." -The Collagist

A magical, heart-wrenching story about women born covered in hair, and how they love. "Beth Couture's Women Born with Fur is a marvelously strange concoction, a cocktail of super-realism, fantasy, surrealism, occultism, and pop art, Rosenquist style. She develops her lovely conceit with care and kindness, leading us into a heartbreaking world we've never imagined, but in which we feel strangely comforted and right at home. An intoxicating book and brew."-Frederick Barthelme, author of Waveland and There Must Be Some Mistake"Where the magic of invention meets up with the heft of the human heart. That's what has been delivered to us here in the form of this short novel. A memorable and singular debut. Women Born with Fur is its own language animal that brings speech to its own human heart."-Peter Markus, author of The Fish and the Not Fish "You have never read anything like Beth Couture's Women Born with Fur, because the writing is utterly reinventing what we mean when we say fiction or novella with sly and brilliant misdirections, tricks of the eye and ear and heart, glorious lies and precise fabrications. I had to read the whole thing without stopping. I nearly put it in my mouth."-Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase"Never mind the author's little hat trick of coming on with prose so unassuming, so disarmingly 'Who, me?' it hovers above the page, practically while whispering in your ear - just before turning on you with a bite that pierces the skin. So there's that, yes, but still. I cannot think of another writer who could possibly tell this story with such sincerity and conviction and authenticity, no one. Then again, before reading Beth Couture's Women Born With Fur, I never could have imagined that the hirsute could be so utterly heartbreaking."-Courtney Eldridge, author of Unkempt and The Generosity of Women

Two novellas, each by a different author Published in one full-color book beautifully illustrated by fiber artist Rachel May. WOMEN BORN WITH FUR by Beth CoutureA wondrous biography about excessively hairy women."An intoxicating book and brew."-Frederick Barthelme, author of Waveland and There Must Be Some Mistake "A memorable and singular debut."-Peter Markus, author of The Fish and the Not Fish "Utterly heartbreaking."-Courtney Eldridge, author of Unkempt and The Generosity of Women OUT FROM THE PLEIADES by Leslie McGrathA picaresque novella in verse about how a bully may come into being. "A rollicking, raucous, new myth."-Susanne Antonetta, author of Make Me a Mother and Body Toxic "A rich romp."-Amy King, poet, I Want to Make You Safe and I'm the Man Who Loves You"Marked by McGrath's signature wit, compassion and insight."-Bruce Snider, poet, Paradise, Indiana and The Year We Studied Women

"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic..." A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being. "'Why didn't I get a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas?' So asks Mina immediately after wondering if she's a racist because she's white too. Priorities, place and position move our hero from well-meaning child to disconcerted bully, borne by a fear of impotence in the world as she tests her own privileged, small power over others. Out From the Pleiades is a rich romp, chockfull of feel-good details and enough unanswered questions to make anyone secure in their moral center come, a tiny bit, undone. Ride in Mina's 'yolk-colored Subaru' as she toes the surfaces of high school, passing through the stoic suicide of 'Ginger, ' until our war protestor comes full circle to the uncharted depths of 'Yes' in soldier Violet's golden eyes - and discovers the harsher power of love's undoing." -Amy King, poet, I Want to Make You Safe and Slaves To Do These Things "Leslie McGrath's Out from the Pleiades is a hybrid gem, a novella in verse that works utterly both as lyric poetry and as story. The life of protagonist Mina Kali, born to the Seven Sisters - a commune of "radical warrior women"--unfolds with an epic sweep, from the moment Mina 'raged forth from the dark red dark' to her final love and loss. Out from the Pleiades is a rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic with its head in Aristophanes and its satiric heart in the 1960s. You will read these poems aloud, laughing, and then find them sneakily haunting you." -Susanne Paola Antonetta, poet The Lives of the Saints, and author of Make Me a Mother: a memoir "Out from the Pleiades is a revealing character study, the story of "Mina," a bully bred from the excesses of liberal culture. It's a testament to the book's complex vision that we both condemn and ultimately empathize with Mina as she makes her way through the world. It's a master class in the psychology of intimidation, marked by McGrath's signature wit, compassion and insight." -Bruce Snider, poet, Paradise, Indiana and The Year We Studied Women

"AN EXCITING NEW TALENT" - Robert Coover, author of Noir Finalist in Chiasmus Press First Book Competition, Starcherone Press Prize for Innovative Fiction, and Subito Press Annual Book Competition. Recipient of a Creative Arts Council Grant at Brown University. This book is also available in full color and ebook. "Stylish blogger, gifted wordsmith, linguistic cinematographer, Roxanne Carter herein charges hard and fast past the current borders of the book and into fresh textual territories all her own. Glamorous Freak is wonderful and wonderfully unsettling work. Reading it you will not be indifferent. Reading it you will listen and listening you will, with Carter, 'be able to recognize the flickering hurricane knocking tree limbs against the door.'" - Laird Hunt, author of The Paris Stories "Roxanne Carter creates a figure of grave and astonishing intelligence, sensitivity and perception: the woman at once so near and so far, so here and so there, haunted seemingly by another narrative, just outside of our reach, and there's something very beautiful about that. And we're astonished that so much longing and mystery can be held in this way in one book. I'd follow this wom aninto any night, into any film, into any day." - Carole Maso, author of Disgrace and AVA Roxanne Carter's sparkling debut fiction is a playful innovative engagement with the mirrored self, stylishly written, wittily framed. An exciting new talent. - Robert Coover, author of Noir

FULL COLOR EDITION "J.A. Tyler and John Dermot Woods have made an object as beautiful as a paper ship." - Luca Dipierro, author of Biscotti Neri and Das Ding "Tyler and Woods volley language and image to construct a new and bracing presentation of identity as at once smeared across a centerless space and anchored by the weight of a single human heart." - Evan Lavender-Smith, author of Avatar "The incantatory, hypnotic examinations of 'me and you and how we are connected' unfold along an edge where Martin Buber meets André Breton." - Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks In this startling collaborative novel, Tyler and Woods tell a story that explores the closely linked experiences of communion and suffocation, creating their narrator's world by setting a beat with mesmerizing chapters of rhythmic prose exploded by frantic full-color illustrations. This book could as easily be described as a horror novel as a love story. The authors' experimental techniques come together in a book that tells the most classic tale of passion and loss.

FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION with art by Beatriz Abluquerque PRAISE FOR AZIMUTH"If there is a little extra light at the edge of seeing, it is surely captured by these diversiform universes. Azimuth is illumined and illuminated by its relationship to the art and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; a keen chiaroscuro suffuses these poems, creating marvelous contrasts of celebration and sadness. 'A light diffused makes the darkness stronger, ' writes Ciavonne, and 'fire is brightest at the top of the tongue'."-D. A. Powell, poet, Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: poems, and the poetry trilogy: Tea, Lunch and Cocktails "Via poems that take place at the partial vantage point of Azimuth, Quadrant and Meridian, the poet makes camp in the foreign, where 'to recognize and to be a stranger' find shared roots. Azimuth takes direction from fire, which demonstrates 'how to go forward /thinking of/ burning as a direction...' Accompanied by theologians she loves but cannot believe, Ciavonne's urgent quest explores the physics of human separation, a separation, remarkably, which gives us insight to the condition of God, 'if god is an opening, if god is a divine withdrawal.'"-Claudia Keelan, poet, O, Heart: poems and Missing Her: poetry and prose "'She wears her best dress and she's hired' describes not a poet but a mourner, but maybe it is the poet, in Carol Ciavonne's new book Azimuth. The ways, the directions possible in language are the troubling engagements of this book in which a line might - for instance, 'Not speaking is foreign; the tongue is bronzed' - which is destined to stay with the reader, to nestle in the mind like a pet or a pest forever. The ways this book is beautiful are the same as the ways it is troubling. This is writing as a new necessity." -Bin Ramke, editor, The Denver Quarterly, and poet, Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems

PRAISE FOR AZIMUTH"If there is a little extra light at the edge of seeing, it is surely captured by these diversiform universes. Azimuth is illumined and illuminated by its relationship to the art and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; a keen chiaroscuro suffuses these poems, creating marvelous contrasts of celebration and sadness. 'A light diffused makes the darkness stronger, ' writes Ciavonne, and 'fire is brightest at the top of the tongue'."-D. A. Powell, poet, Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: poems, and the poetry trilogy: Tea, Lunch and Cocktails "Via poems that take place at the partial vantage point of Azimuth, Quadrant and Meridian, the poet makes camp in the foreign, where 'to recognize and to be a stranger' find shared roots. Azimuth takes direction from fire, which demonstrates 'how to go forward /thinking of/ burning as a direction...' Accompanied by theologians she loves but cannot believe, Ciavonne's urgent quest explores the physics of human separation, a separation, remarkably, which gives us insight to the condition of God, 'if god is an opening, if god is a divine withdrawal.'"-Claudia Keelan, poet, O, Heart: poems and Missing Her: poetry and prose "'She wears her best dress and she's hired' describes not a poet but a mourner, but maybe it is the poet, in Carol Ciavonne's new book Azimuth. The ways, the directions possible in language are the troubling engagements of this book in which a line might - for instance, 'Not speaking is foreign; the tongue is bronzed' - which is destined to stay with the reader, to nestle in the mind like a pet or a pest forever. The ways this book is beautiful are the same as the ways it is troubling. This is writing as a new necessity." -Bin Ramke, editor, The Denver Quarterly, and poet, Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems

FULL COLOR EDITION, with original art by YALDA ZAKERI. "Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt Original, sobering, and haunting- Mariam Beevi Lam Hallucinatory medical nightmare-Lisa Lutz "Dear Tess, we cut you up today." So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsive desire to feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body by methods both horrific and creative. When Tess's narrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, the distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question.Without Anesthesia spans time periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's New York - and culminates in an ending that Alfred Hitchcock himself would approve. "Without Anesthesia is an original, sobering, and haunting visceral contemplation of love, anguish, morbidity, obsession, knowing and unknowability, the seen and the felt. The intense desire for intimacy and commune on the part of characters and readers evokes riveting anticipation and obsessive page-turning anxiety." - Mariam Beevi Lam, author of Precariat Reckoning: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma, and Strategic Affect "Take Without Anesthesia straight if you can; personally, I required a few shots of whiskey. But layered into this hallucinatory medical nightmare is a moving meditation on obsession and loss. Equally adept at slow-burning suspense and blindside revelation, Navab will keep you transfixed, whether you're numbed or not." -Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files, winner of the Alex Award "Without Anesthesia mobilizes an astoundingly rich and varied body of discourses - film theory, philosophies of aesthetics, medical sciences ranging from psychiatry to cardiology, even a history of excrement - deploying them in ways that transform our ideas about what the detective narrative is and what it might become in the future.... Without Anesthesia gives us what has long been beloved about the most conventional, rewarding, and best of mystery novels: the desire to stay up late into the night and read so as to solve a puzzle that seems, at turns, within our grasp and then suddenly, once again, beyond it." - Nicole Rizzuto, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Georgetown University "Without Anesthesia is a vivid, grotesque and whip-smart play with identity, where the simulations of appearance merge with the materialities of the body. Navab immerses the reader in the rich vocabularies of medicine and cinema; which is to say, the languages of the body's beauty and decay, our obsessions and repulsions, life and death." - Rosalind Galt, author of Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image and The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map

COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION "Tender and heartbreakingly candid reinvention of memory." ABOUT THE BOOK An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir tells two stories simultaneously. In the first, which takes place in Renaissance England, a mute stable girl of mysterious talents and potentially dangerous parentage finds herself punished for saving the life of the boy she loves. The second story is situated in the late 20th Century and explains the inspirations for the first story. An overly talkative, solidly spoiled, middle class girl muses on the social and economic phenomena the author observed while growing up in Hollywood during the birth of the hippie movement, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, and the growth of Renaissance England re-enactments. She does not save the boy she thinks she loves. Indeed, she may have hastened his death. Even years later, the only way she can acknowledge this failure is by spinning an elaborate fantasy that becomes the tale of a wretched orphan who turns out to be a princess. "Jane Rosenberg LaForge's An Unsuitable Princess is a daring combination of old-school storytelling and the true wit of the best of contemporary memoirists. The first of these is a fairy tale about a young woman who cannot speak, while the second tells of the author's awkward coming of age within the shadows of a disintegrating Hollywood neighborhood. But it is when these two narratives prove themselves inescapably linked that the novel takes its most affecting turn. 'Tell me the story of your life, '' the author's daughter asks, and so the author does, with both hilarious and heartbreaking repercussions. 'Finally, ' the author writes, 'I am famous.'" -Michelle Hoover, author of The Quickening "It's two, two, two tales in one. On your left, a deftly told Early Modern horsey fantasy; on your right, an aching memoir of the authorial teenage Ren Faire trauma that begat the tale. Rosenberg LaForge has crafted a quirky and compelling new class of literary mashup." -Jess Winfield, co-founder, Reduced Shakespeare Co. and author of My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare "Rosenberg LaForge lays out her dreams and desires in this tender and heartbreakingly candid reinvention of memory. An Unsuitable Princess is an entirely original look at life, personal history, and one's original hopes." -Kate Southwood, author of Falling to Earth

"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt "Dear Tess, we cut you up today." So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsive desire to feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body by methods both horrific and creative. In this highly original medical thriller, Tess's narrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, and the distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question.Without Anesthesia spans time periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's New York - and culminates in an ending that Alfred Hitchcock himself would approve. "Without Anesthesia is an original, sobering, and haunting visceral contemplation of love, anguish, morbidity, obsession, knowing and unknowability, the seen and the felt. The intense desire for intimacy and commune on the part of characters and readers evokes riveting anticipation and obsessive page-turning anxiety." - Mariam Beevi Lam, author of Precariat Reckoning: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma, and Strategic Affect "Take Without Anesthesia straight if you can; personally, I required a few shots of whiskey. But layered into this hallucinatory medical nightmare is a moving meditation on obsession and loss. Equally adept at slow-burning suspense and blindside revelation, Navab will keep you transfixed, whether you're numbed or not." -Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files, winner of the Alex Award "Without Anesthesia mobilizes an astoundingly rich and varied body of discourses - film theory, philosophies of aesthetics, medical sciences ranging from psychiatry to cardiology, even a history of excrement - deploying them in ways that transform our ideas about what the detective narrative is and what it might become in the future.... Without Anesthesia gives us what has long been beloved about the most conventional, rewarding, and best of mystery novels: the desire to stay up late into the night and read so as to solve a puzzle that seems, at turns, within our grasp and then suddenly, once again, beyond it." - Nicole Rizzuto, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Georgetown University "Without Anesthesia is a vivid, grotesque and whip-smart play with identity, where the simulations of appearance merge with the materialities of the body. Navab immerses the reader in the rich vocabularies of medicine and cinema; which is to say, the languages of the body's beauty and decay, our obsessions and repulsions, life and death." - Rosalind Galt, author of Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image and The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map

BLACK AND WHITE EDITION #6 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Tender and heartbreakingly candid reinvention of memory." -Kate Southwood, author of Falling to Earth ABOUT THE BOOK An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir tells two stories simultaneously. In the first, which takes place in Renaissance England, a mute stable girl of mysterious talents and potentially dangerous parentage finds herself punished for saving the life of the boy she loves. The second story is situated in the late 20th Century and explains the inspirations for the first story. An overly talkative, solidly spoiled, middle class girl muses on the social and economic phenomena the author observed while growing up in Hollywood during the birth of the hippie movement, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, and the growth of Renaissance England re-enactments. She does not save the boy she thinks she loves. Indeed, she may have hastened his death. Even years later, the only way she can acknowledge this failure is by spinning an elaborate fantasy that becomes the tale of a wretched orphan who turns out to be a princess. "Jane Rosenberg LaForge's An Unsuitable Princess is a daring combination of old-school storytelling and the true wit of the best of contemporary memoirists. The first of these is a fairy tale about a young woman who cannot speak, while the second tells of the author's awkward coming of age within the shadows of a disintegrating Hollywood neighborhood. But it is when these two narratives prove themselves inescapably linked that the novel takes its most affecting turn. 'Tell me the story of your life, '' the author's daughter asks, and so the author does, with both hilarious and heartbreaking repercussions. 'Finally, ' the author writes, 'I am famous.'" -Michelle Hoover, author of The Quickening "It's two, two, two tales in one. On your left, a deftly told Early Modern horsey fantasy; on your right, an aching memoir of the authorial teenage Ren Faire trauma that begat the tale. Rosenberg LaForge has crafted a quirky and compelling new class of literary mashup." -Jess Winfield, co-founder, Reduced Shakespeare Co. and author of My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare "Rosenberg LaForge lays out her dreams and desires in this tender and heartbreakingly candid reinvention of memory. An Unsuitable Princess is an entirely original look at life, personal history, and one's original hopes." -Kate Southwood, author of Falling to Earth

"Organized around a series of questions drawing attention to how the 21st century has complicated our experiences of nature, the body, and human activity, Devouring the Green pushes an exciting range of contemporary poets to resist nostalgic, simplified notions of our human place in the world and, rather, to focus unflinchingly on the many ways we entangle with-and, by our presence, irrevocably change-the world around us. The poems gathered here are alternately visionary, wry, celebratory, angry, elegiac, and apocalyptic-dizzyingly broad in their scope and, above all else, timely. This is a wonderfully unique, ambitious, and challenging anthology." - Wayne Miller, poet & editor, The City, Our City and Literary Publishing in the 21st Century "What a harrowing and ultimately energizing anthology Sam Witt has created in Devouring the Green. Here, the human merges with the cyborg or, in moments that seem both Whitmanian and darkly fabulist, all of us merge uncomfortably with the natural world we are, simultaneously, destroying. "Would you call humans an invasive species?" Witt asks in one of his many prompts that inspired the poets in this collection. "Are the dead an invasive species?" Wild, visionary, and cacophonous, these poems work to position our selves anew and, so, ask us to think about our responsibilities to others and to our environment in radical, discomforting ways." - Kevin Prufer, poet and editor, Churches and Into English: An Anthology of Multiple Translations

Selected by O, The Oprah Magazine: * Best Memoirs * Best Beach Reads * Best First Lines * Top Books to Pick Up Now ** A Wall Street Journal Bestseller ** MORE PRAISE FOR THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS "Her gift for capturing the nugget of a relationship in a single backward glance works beautifully in this illustrated memoir." - The Chicago Tribune "The Secret Life of Objects is a lean, brilliant, playful memoir." - The San Francisco Chronicle "Her memoir reflects on everyday objects such as a cup, a ring... From these memories comes a whole life story." - Reader's Digest "A unique, evocative memoir...written with all the wild bloom of imagination that fiction brings to the table." - The Quivering Pen "This endearing memoir takes an assortment of otherwise ordinary possessions and turns it into a series of delicate, resonant stories." - More Magazine "'Sometimes things shatter, ' Dawn Raffel writes in The Secret Life of Objects. 'More often they just fade.' But in this evocative memoir, moments from the past do not fade-they breathe on the page, rendering a striking portrait of a woman through her connections to the people she's loved, the places she been, what's been lost, and what remains. In clear, beautiful prose, Raffel reveals the haunting qualities of the objects we gather, as well as the sustaining and elusive nature of memory itself." - Samuel Ligon, author of Drift and Swerve: Stories "Dawn Raffel puts memories, people and secrets together like perfectly set gems in these shimmering stories, which are a delight to read. Every detail is exquisite, every character beautifully observed, and every object becomes sacred in her kind, capable hands. I savored every word. - Priscilla Warner, author of Learning to Breathe - My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

While we may be dependent on the voices we hear in the media, and the media often has a short attention span, Timmons takes the time to transcode various sources from many media, stitching together a Joyful Noise of voices to cut across the dismaying noise of the otherwise humdrum deluge. "Joyful Noise is a cool read, exemplary in itself of the paradoxes of its construction. In each of its three sections, a discrete concoction of light constraints filters - like a mesh trumpet gramophone - commentary on human noise and attention from the infinite traffic of the Internet, as reined and hailed down by Google alerts. A very sane tone prevails." - Mairéad Byrne, author of Talk Poetry "Ether has a new definition, not to escape, but to confront the affordable, comfortable sofa that poetry has tried to die on over and over to no avail. Mathew Timmons moved the couch, found a plug on the wall, and every surface has the electrical way about it now. Brilliant book! (blurb first using search string: book fantastic brilliant poems; second: mathew timmons genius poet)." - CAConrad, author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon The first section, Lip Service, was composed using Google news alerts, employing four search strings of four words each over the course of one month from January 1 to February 1, 2008. The second section, Sound Noise, was composed using Google blog alerts employing sixteen search strings of four words each over the course of one week from Monday, April 28 to Monday, May 5, 2008. The third section, Basic Hearing, was composed using Google groups alerts, employing sixty-four search strings of four words each over the course of one day from Friday, February 20 to Saturday, February 21, 2009.

Book #3 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Best LGBT Book of 2012" -Laurie Weeks "Anna Joy Springer fabulates a trauma memoir of losing her bipolar lover to AIDS and, in so doing, creates a unique literary form, one that ignores the often fraught line between truth and fiction in pursuit of something more elusive" -American Book Review "A powerful book of love, trauma, loss, and forgiveness." -Lambda Literary "A page turner...electric" -Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette and Culture of One "There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do. I love this book." -Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre "Anna Joy Springer's The Vicious Red Relic, Love is a gnarly siren song of a book.... [O]nce read, it will live perfectly inside you forever." -HTMLGiant "This writing just turns me on. The blatantness. The naming. The pain of becoming and being revealed by way of the prurient requirements of our relations." -The Lit Pub "With intelligence and heart she enlarges the things of which a novel is capable. How very lucky I am to have read it!" -Carole Maso, author of AVA and Break Every Rule "My god, this book is beautiful... Each sentence is a journey." -Doug Rice, author of Between Appear and Disappear and Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest "She writes about sex, lust, passion, power so damn well, too damn well. She doesn't separate any of it. She keeps it close. Tight and scary.... I highly recommend this book." -The Collagist

In a funny, angry, hyper-articulate monologue, an art vandal makes a passionate plea to a judge: you, the reader. The vandal has been charged with defacing a masterpiece of modern art, and asks you to consider the following argument: Maybe the way we turn out is less the fault of our parents and more the effect of larger cultural and historical influences - maybe history is the real culprit. Rich with references to the high art, mass culture, political ideologies, and military maneuvers of the post-war era, from the Cold War to the introduction of television, Brief chronicles the formation of an art vandal, until the story explodes in an enactment of temporary insanity." "The book seems to be awake and refuses to stop mutating. All in all, it's a high-level act, and one that bears multiple readings almost immediately." - Blake Butler, Vice "Chasin's fiction is playful and hilarious and at the same time dense and challenging." - Robert Lopez, The Believer "Chasin's book unwrites definitions, and that's its real power. So don't allow me to define it for you; better that you pick up your own copy and read for yourself its 178-page mesmerizing brief without the safety of knowing what you should think about it." - Jacob Paul, Fiction Writers Review

FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION with art by Liselott Johnsson "A haunting debut by a bold new talent." -Laurie Foos "In a French village, painter Teaston has witnessed a woman's fatal jump off a nearby cliff. Growing lost in the 'whiteness' of his schizophrenia, he paints out the faces on his canvases, searching for the 'holes where eyes could fall in.' Dipped in the ink of South American surrealists like Julio Cortazar, Jorge Armenteros's The Book of I slowly and achingly unveils Teaston's tormented inner life. For Teaston, 'the existence of normalcy is a primordial question.' This stark, poetic and haunted novel makes it ours as well." - Susanne Paola Antonetta author of A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World "A startling vision of the world from the perspective of a schizophrenic painter, a man balanced on the edge of his self and his life, and on the way to a crisis. This is a finely crafted and clearheaded book, at once sympathetic and unwilling to give any alibis, and well worth the read." -Brian Evenson, author of Immobility, Last Days, and The Open Curtain "In this lyrical and assured debut novel, Jorge Armenteros navigates us through the labyrinthian struggles of the mind of a schizophrenic painter wading through the edges of reality and fantasy. Part existential puzzle and part hypnotic meditation, The Book of I is as much about the language we have-or yearn to have- to hold our identities as it is about the search for the core of our innermost selves. This is a haunting debut by a bold new talent." -Laurie Foos author of Ex Utero and Before Elvis There Was Nothing "In this powerful novel, Jorge Armenteros takes us deep, deep and deeper still into the mind of a painter who has come to the edge of his cliff. The Book of I's fierce, fresh language buoys us through the many-textured darkness, shoots the whole through with crucial light. Cortazar is an apt analog here. So is Artaud."- Laird Hunt, author of Neverhomeand Kind One, a 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award "How our minds evolve and determine our identities and how these identities can shift over time remains a fascinating topic for the novelist. When a mental illness interferes with the "normal" brain function that we all take for granted, the challenges to the individual and those around him multiply exponentially. His training and experience as a psychiatrist gives Jorge Armenteros a special perspective on the mysteries of the human mind and his character Teaston reminds us that somewhere between reality and delusion lies the unconquerable world of uncertainty. A terrific achievement for a first novel." - John Kane, MD, Vice President for Behavioral Health Services of the North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System and Chairman of Psychiatry at The Zucker Hillside Hospital

"A haunting debut by a bold new talent." -Laurie Foos "In this powerful novel, Jorge Armenteros takes us deep, deep and deeper still into the mind of a painter who has come to the edge of his cliff. The Book of I's fierce, fresh language buoys us through the many-textured darkness, shoots the whole through with crucial light. Cortazar is an apt analog here. So is Artaud." - Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome and Kind One, 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award "In a French village, painter Teaston has witnessed a woman's fatal jump off a nearby cliff. Growing lost in the 'whiteness' of his schizophrenia, he paints out the faces on his canvases, searching for the 'holes where eyes could fall in.' Dipped in the ink of South American surrealists like Julio Cortazar, Jorge Armenteros's The Book of I slowly and achingly unveils Teaston's tormented inner life. For Teaston, 'the existence of normalcy is a primordial question.' This stark, poetic and haunted novel makes it ours as well." - Susanne Paola Antonetta author of A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World "A startling vision of the world from the perspective of a schizophrenic painter, a man balanced on the edge of his self and his life, and on the way to a crisis. This is a finely crafted and clearheaded book, at once sympathetic and unwilling to give any alibis, and well worth the read." -Brian Evenson, author of Immobility, Last Days, and The Open Curtain "In this lyrical and assured debut novel, Jorge Armenteros navigates us through the labyrinthian struggles of the mind of a schizophrenic painter wading through the edges of reality and fantasy. Part existential puzzle and part hypnotic meditation, THE BOOK OF I is as much about the language we have-or yearn to have- to hold our identities as it is about the search for the core of our innermost selves. This is a haunting debut by a bold new talent." -Laurie Foos author of Ex Utero and Before Elvis There Was Nothing "How our minds evolve and determine our identities and how these identities can shift over time remains a fascinating topic for the novelist. When a mental illness interferes with the "normal" brain function that we all take for granted, the challenges to the individual and those around him multiply exponentially. His training and experience as a psychiatrist gives Jorge Armenteros a special perspective on the mysteries of the human mind and his character Teaston reminds us that somewhere between reality and delusion lies the unconquerable world of uncertainty. A terrific achievement for a first novel." - John Kane, MD, Vice President for Behavioral Health Services of the North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System and Chairman of Psychiatry at The Zucker Hillside Hospital

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2013 BOOKS OF THE YEARFULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION"An Honest Ghost is brilliantly conceived and brilliantly performed." - Adam Phillips, critic and author of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived LifeInspired by the task of unpacking his library, the narrator returns to writing an autobiographical novel about the sudden appearance his son, Joe, who at age nine shows up on the narrator's doorstep for the first time. The narrator, unnerved by the prospect of sharing his life with his extremely precocious child, is nonetheless moved by Joe's arrival. He has to change his own life by accepting the responsibility of fatherhood, a role he shares slightly with his young English boyfriend, David. Joe's unpredictable mother, Eleanor Sullivan, seeks her own satisfactions. The domestic scene is affected when David introduces a new friend, Roy Hardeman, a strange gay cop who dies as mysteriously as he arrived. The heart of the novel is the ghostly, persistent, unreliable qualities of literary and personal memory, and the ways in which a narrative can hold onto, recapture, and transform memory."Rick Whitaker's An Honest Ghost is both narrative and objet, a singular work of art whose singularity keeps beckoning to the reader. He has put the force back into tour de force." - John Ashbery, poet and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"Reading An Honest Ghost is an exhilarating, percussive experience, proof that literature is capricious and exalted... People always praise fiction for being lifelike but Whitaker proves that fiction is better than life - more interesting, much more thrilling, though it is inhabited by posturing, irresponsible, self-dramatizing characters.... The tension and excitement of this prose, constantly buffeting the reader, derives from all the different and unique authors who have contributed to it." - Edmund White, novelist and recipient of Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award"An Honest Ghost is sheer genius, the uber novel, the ultimate palimpsest. It is a writer's truth and a reader's dream. Above all, it is a uniquely gripping read." - Jenny McPhee, author of A Man of No Moon and No Ordinary Matter"I am struck by how deeply personal this book feels, even revelatory, as if the author had solicited other voices to perform an autopsy on his most private, intimate self.... Whitaker has performed such a work of genius and pushed it ad absurdum: the extreme bending appears effortless and forms a perfect circle, wherein full authorship of book, i.e. all the citations at the end of the book, are truly at the discretion of the reader, with all the responsibilities, pangs and joys this entails." - Filip Noterdaeme, artist, author of The Autobiography of Daniel J. IsengartAbout the BookWithin the binary world of coded zeros and ones arises a choir of disembodied literary voices, from William Shakespeare to J. D. Salinger, Gertrude Stein to Susan Sontag, Djuna Barnes to Don DeLillo, and hundreds between and beyond.Published as an interactive iBook as well as a paperback and ebook, Rick Whitaker's semi-autobiographical novel, An Honest Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. In the iBook version, touching a sentence brings up its original source: a book's title, author, and page number.The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator's voice and, fittingly, in the careful reader's heart.

BLACK & WHITE EDITION "The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." -Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History "In fiction of this sort, there is huge pressure on the line-by-line life of the prose. Happily, it is in the energy and inventiveness of its language that this novel is most alive. Because that is what the work is finally about, that wonderful redundancy we call "art," showing us once again...the way from death to life." - Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of "Homeland Security" try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their economic woes. Meanwhile their wives threaten to follow a guru to India in search of their own inner security. Written as a single, grammatically correct sentence, The Pornographers humorously lays bare the real and serious concerns about America in the 21st Century.