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Number of Titles Found: 69
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| Title: Agitprop for Bedtime |
| Sub-title: Polemic, Story Problems, Kulturporn and Humdingers |
| By (author): Charles Holdefer |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697993 : 9781944697990 |
| A portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults, addressing such timely topics as: erectile dysfunction during the national anthem, what happens when Nancy Pelosi comes calling, and what Model A Fords say under certain conditions. |
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Pages: 94
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - June 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Humour |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 1 of: 69 |
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| Title: All the Useless Things are Mine |
| Sub-title: A Book of Seventeens |
| By (author): Thomas Walton Illustrated by: Douglas Miller |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697918 : 9781944697914 |
| This is a book of seventeen-word sentences, of aphorisms and otherisms. The aphorisms are in the tradition of Porchia, Blake, The Tao Te Ching, and Wittgenstein. The otherisms find their ancestors in Gertrude Stein, cabaret, Hejinian, haiku, and noir pulp fiction. Arranged thematically to respond to various themes -- politics, love and sex, parenthood, the afterlife, etc. -- both what's lofty and lowly are represented in these wildly imaginative and strangely intimate "seventeens." At times pithy, poetic, surreal or profane, each line is a concise world of wonder. Here is a collection of seventeen-word landscapes, snapshots and found bits of lint, learning and linden leaves that can be nibbled on, a few at a time, or binged in quick succession. The book is illustrated with seventeen etchings and drawings by Douglas Miller and includes an afterword by Elizabeth Cooperman. |
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Pages: 138
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - July 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets : Literary studies: general |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 2 of: 69 |
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| Title: All the World's a Simulation |
| By (author): Stephen Moles |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697608 : 9781944697600 |
| Stephen Moles (author of The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable) returns with his most complex and rewarding novel yet. All the Worlds a Simulation is a metafictional tour de force featuring Shakespeare, Snow White and an infinite number of evil Stephen Hawkings. While its main characters attempt to escape from it, the book constantly rewrites itself before the readers gaze to reveal a profound secret about the power behind this and all other literary works. Thoroughly playful yet deeply serious, this extraordinary novel offers a personality-altering reading experience and an initiation into the realm of dark meaning. This edition includes as an appendix two related works, the novellas Fossil People and Life.exe. |
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Pages: 356
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - May 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 21.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 3 of: 69 |
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| Title: An Occasional History |
| By (author): Laura Davenport |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697381 : 9781944697389 |
| Laura Davenport's poetic and harrowing "An Occasional History" investigates how language and a person's place within it come to be defined in the context of an abusive relationship -- one whose terrible violence is ever so gradually revealed, as layers of language and forgetting are progressively peeled away. Through five sections of differing form, in which romance novels, the OED, and etymological histories play prominent roles, we approach the core of knowledge step-by-step, and come to experience not merely abuse and its ramifications, but the central role in it of how language is shaped by power relations, and vice versa. Formally unique, acutely painful yet uplifting, and exquisitely written in every detail, this collection sustains an almost magical double perspective: a deeply knowing aesthetic distance and hard-won wisdom, and an intimate, willing identification with the immediate, almost to the point of being lost within it. As in all great writing, language and soul interrogate themselves through the power of poetry. |
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Pages: 120
Size: 150x115mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - July 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 10.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 4 of: 69 |
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| Title: Back to the Wine Jug |
| Sub-title: A Comic Novel in Verse |
| By (author): Joe Taylor |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697977 : 9781944697976 |
| In BACK TO THE WINE JUG, Joe Taylor, author of the comic verse novel PINEAPPLE, returns to the form with a tour de force of wit, erudition, and earthy imagination. Dateline: Hades, the Underworld, where things go bad. But things are going even worse up top with red/blue states, Brexit, the Middle East, Hong Kong, and college football. Diogenes, still toting his lantern in search of one honest (wo)man, is appointed by Lord Hades himself to teleport up to lovely Birmingham, Alabama, and mollify mundial matters, accompanied by his Doberman Pluto and Victoria Woodhull, the suffragette and 1872 presidential candidate. The trio is on the case to right the world's confusion. But, Lord H. being a consomméed plot-thickener, they find themselves followed in the transporter by commie-hating troublemaker J. Edgar Hoover.... |
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Pages: 162
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - June 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Myth & legend told as fiction |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 5 of: 69 |
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| Title: Booboo Roi |
| By (author): Marvin Cohen |
| ISBN10-13: 1952386098 : 9781952386091 |
| Marvin Cohen writes of Booboo Roi, his playfully anti-theatrical adaptation of Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi: In the 1970s or 1980s I read Barbara Wrights Ubu translation, which inspired me with its sheer royal barbarity of being brutal and decisive to any opposition: pure powerful selfishness. I wrote this play as a compensation for being poor, more than half deaf, and growing up in Brooklyn with poor parents. I envied my middle-class contemporaries privileges. I felt powerless and inferior to everyone. I had childishly daydreamed of having power over everyone, ruthlessly tyrannical, so I put myself in Ubu Rois Booboos shoes, and got imaginary literary revenge on the world. |
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Pages: 94
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - September 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 6 of: 69 |
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| Title: Breath Like the Wind at Dawn |
| By (author): Devin Jacobsen |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697934 : 9781944697938 |
| Spanning two decades, Breath Like the Wind at Dawn tells the epic story of the Tamplin family of outlaw-twins Quinn and Irving; their brother Edward, who is on the run from a dark past; and their mother Annora, who has been left to defend their haunted Minnesota homestead. Yet at the centre of the novel is Les, patriarch of the Tamplins, Civil War veteran, and sheriff of Utica, who is possessed by an indelible lust to strangle his victims. Only when the brothers set about to rob Utica's bank will the family at last converge in an unforgettable finale when blood will be met with blood. Combining the multi-perspective family drama of As I Lay Dying with the violent lyricism of Blood Meridian, BREATH LIKE THE WIND AT DAWN brings a brave new voice to American fiction. |
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Pages: 208
Size: 210x135mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - June 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 7 of: 69 |
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| Title: Bring Me the Head of Mr. Boots |
| By (author): Charles Holdefer |
| ISBN10-13: 1944697799 : 9781944697792 |
| Who's the real Mr Boots? Erich Ambrose fools people for a living. It's a family tradition. But when a party stunt goes disastrously wrong, he finds himself in deep trouble, on the run through Chicago streets and northern woods, matching wits with the FBI and national security agents and money launderers, all while trying to please a violent homecoming queen and a badass rabbit. Humorous and probing, this is a story of how our past haunts the present, and how the cruellest tricks are the ones we play on ourselves. |
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Pages: 156
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - November 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 8 of: 69 |
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| Title: Cavanaugh |
| By (author): Joshua Kornreich |
| ISBN10-13: 1952386144 : 9781952386145 |
| Cavanaugh is not Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh is not Cavanaugh. Yet when Cavanaugh, a pencil-pushing, number-crunching, middling, middle-aged middleman, reluctantly buys a bobblehead of the controversial Supreme Court justice for his innocent young daughter at a minor league baseball game, past traumas are retriggered, households unravel, and a mysterious inner voice reawakens, knocking Cavanaugh off the wagon and steering him headlong into the hillocky and tortuous terrain of the surreal and absurd. With a narrative that charms and intoxicates sentence-by-sentence, Cavanaugh is not only a bleak comedy of the reverberating repercussions set off by a single fraught decision, but also a darkly poignant reminder that no matter how rigorously we endeavour to seek refuge from what haunts us, memory will always find a way to creep into the din of our surroundings, forcing itself upon us against our will and, inevitably, of those we love most. |
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“Joshua Kornreich’s Cavanaugh follows the rollicking downfall of the remarkably unremarkable Cavanaugh and the simultaneous upfall of his alter-ego-cum-nemesis, O’Reilly, after the two men purchase bobblehead dolls of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for their young daughters at a minor league baseball game. The event throws Cavanaugh into a spiral of doubt, inebriation and memory at once hilarious and deeply unsettling. Who is Cavanaugh? Who is O’Reilly? Who is anyone? Only a master of the tragicomic like Kornreich can romp through existential questions with such raucous exuberance. From the moment Cavanaugh’s daughter takes the Kavanaugh bobblehead to show-and-tell, Kornreich steers readers on an absurdly plausible jig that grapples with complex moral questions amidst a fog of bluster and booze. In the spirit of Donleavy’s The Ginger Man and Amis’s Lucky Jim, Kornreich’s anti-hero is a man sinned against, sinning, and befuddled by both sets of transgressions. Cavanaugh may not be Kavanaugh, but Cavanaugh is Kornreich at the top of his game and the comedic novel at its side-splitting finest.” —Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein’s Beach House
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“Cavanaugh is the most endearingly bizarre satire I’ve read in years, a thrilling case of self-made mistaken identity set off by what might be the least desirable bobblehead doll imaginable. Kornreich’s prose has always been darkly funny and formally surprising, and this is him writing at his best.” —Matt Bell, author of Appleseed
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Pages: 236
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - October 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 9 of: 69 |
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| Title: Condemned to Cymru |
| By (author): M J Nicholls |
| ISBN10-13: 1952386241 : 9781952386244 |
| At the HusavĂk Research Institute, a paradise of Nordic perfection where the blemished are banished and the pretty are promoted, acne-ridden Magnus is sent on a bogus anthropological fact-finding mission to visit every village, town, and city in Wales to file reports for Icelands upcoming colonisation. The reports he composes are fragments of snarky travelogue, highly suspicious tales of local folklore, unforgiving recaps of childhood trauma, and cris de coeur from a misanthropic outsider fated to stalk the wild Welsh countryside suffering squeamish erotic reveries about Helga HorsedĂłttir. Presented in alphabetical, achronological order, Condemned to Cymru is a comico-pimply picaresque, a digressive ramble into the dark heart of boredom, and the essential reference encyclopedia of self-hatred. |
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Pages: 214
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: Sagging Meniscus Press - May 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 10 of: 69 |
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