Bøger udgivet af Manic D Press,U.S.

In a world with too many rules, Wild Child is free to be herself, doing and learning as she pleases.

"98 Wounds" contains improbably-linked stories re-imagining and reconciling the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, and the cranky contrarians among us.

A groundbreaking anthology exploring radical frontiers of love, sex, and relationships within gender-variant experiences.

An extended meditation on resistance, struggle, and joy celebrating the strange miracle that we exist, persevering in spite of everything.

Gutterboys is a twisted tale of steamy gay sex and unrequited love in Lower Manhattan in the early 1980s. Filled with scenes of debauchery and explicitly depicted gay sex, this wanton outing portrays a carnal world of orgiastic delights that may never exist again. Jeremy, a shy 19-year-old, falls madly in love with Colin, a disturbed yet brilliant older hustler. Though Colin rejects Jeremy as a lover, he takes him on as a protégé, introducing him to the hilariously depraved world of new-wave nightclubs and gay bars in the days before AIDS and the war on drugs. Innocent Jeremy, protected by the spirits of his beloved dead grandmothers - one a fiery Jewish socialist, the other a proper British matron - becomes increasingly unstable under the strain of his unreturned love. When Jeremy finally snaps, he reaches an understanding with Colin that he never anticipated.

In this debut volume of engaging poetry, Cook tackles American history ("President Garfield"), personal history ("The Way I Tie My Shoes"), and literary history ("James Joyce"), among other topics. His vision is that of the blue-collar Midwest, observing life perceptively in bars, his neighborhood, and at work. Quirky and humorous, with a subtext of serious social commentary, Cook's writing is for people who think they hate poetry (and for those who love it, too).

Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines light on those who identify as FTM (female to male) and also illuminates those whose gender is more fluid, proving that biology doesn't control destiny.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin ChinIn Bite Hard, poet Justin Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing "what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants" or a series of ex-boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin displays his remarkable emotional range and voice as a poet.His raw, incantatory, stream-of-consciousness poems confront issues of race, desire, and loss with a compelling urgency that reflects his work as a performance artist, speaking directly to an audience. Throughout this collection, Chin showcases his ability to convey thought-provoking viewpoints on a variety of controversial subjects. As R. Zamora Linmark of Rolling the R's says, "He plugs the stage microphone into the page and lyrically blasts the heart of our fears, rage, and import-export nightmarish dreams".

Short Fiction. "Escape from Houdini Mountain" contains twenty-six escapist reveries and scintillating escapades populated by rockstars and wannabes, acid-dropping clowns, aging punk rockers, desperate women, and transvestite-turned-evangelists inhabiting an underground subculture beyond most people's wildest imaginings.

An intimate series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community.

A remarkable first fiction collection featuring quirky stories of urban angst and redemption