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Randy
Adams - Alan C. Baird - Arthur Asa
Berger - Jean Chapman - David
Clayton - Gregory Farnum - Jackie
Habgood - Richard D. Hawkins - Lewis
LaCook - Pauline Masurel - Wendell
Mayo - Kim Morrissey - Vernon
Moyse - Anna Perera - Christopher
Pressler - Dan Raphael - Nina Rapi -
Martin Sexton - Andrea Sherwood -
Kenji Siratori - Jean Smith - Wendy
Tokunaga - Richard Wilkerson
Randy
Adams
Eternal
Prairie (Exploring Rural Cemeteries of the West)
Fitzhenry
& Whiteside Ltd. c1999 and 2000. $16.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 1894004337)
Eternal Prairie -- part travelogue, part anthropological essay, and part rural
documentary -- is at root a spiritual journey, a singular search for meaning,
where the reader is invited to tag along. Generously illustrated with 150 photographs
(colour and black/white), the book documents cemetery markers on the prairies
of rural Canada, and explores how archetypal symbols have been interpreted by
New World settlers and their descendants.
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Alan
C. Baird
9TimeZones.com
FXlibris.
c 1999. £14, $18 trade paper. (ISBN: 0738806137)
9TimeZones.com - an eMail screenplay collaboration between Hungary and L.A. (includes
first draft script 'The Fall In Budapest')
"In America we take so many things for granted, and the most consequential
things can seem so mundane. We are isolated from the grueling realities of other
parts of the world, where people mean things when they say them, because their
very survival might be at stake. Reading the correspondence of Alan C. Baird and
Anikó J. Bartos, and watching the development of their co-written screenplay
across the Internet, with accompanying commentary on each of the participants'
lives, loves and longings, one can't help but feel a little better about the world,
and our possibilities."
-Skip Press, author of Writer's Guide to Hollywood
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Arthur
Asa Berger
The
Genius of the Jewish Joke
Jason Aronson. c 1997. trade paper. (ISBN: 1568219776)
A discussion of the nature of Jewish humor as reflected in various kinds of Jewish
jokes. Lots of Jewish jokes and analysis of the social and cultural significance
of the jokes.
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Bloom's
Morning
iUniverse.com. c 2001. $15.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 0595167500)
The book takes one morning in the life on an American everyman, Bloom, and analyzes
the objects and rituals that he is involved with. There are 30 plus analyses of
everything from clock radios and broadloom rugs to trash compactors and garbage
disposals. Some people have suggested this is a comic novel. It has been translated
into German and Chinese.
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The
Art of Comedy Writing
Transaction Pub. c 1997. $29.95 library binding . (ISBN: 1560003243)
Here I elaborate the 45 basic techniques that, I argue, are found in all comic
writing and offer examples from the works of playwrights from Roman times to contemporary
times. I also analyze four plays in the second half of the book, including Twelfth
Night and The Bald Soprano.
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Postmortem
for a Postmodernist
Altamira Pr. c 1997. $21.95 textbook binding. (ISBN: 0761989110)
This is a comic academic mystery novel that also functions as a textbook on postmodern
thought. On the first page Prof. Ettore Gnocchi is murdered four different ways...while
having a dinner party to plan a conference on postmodernism.
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Ads,
Fads and Consumer Culture
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. c 2000. $16.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 0742500314)
This book deals with the impact of advertising on American culture. It also offers
chapters on methods of analyzing print advertisements and television commercials.
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The
Mass Comm Murders: Five Media Theorists Self-Destruct
Rowman & Littlefield. c 2002. $18.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 0742517217)
Five media theorists murder each other off, but not before explaining their theories
of mass media. Detective Solomon Hunter, fresh from his experiences with postmodernists,
tackles media theory. The book is a very hostile satire of academia.
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Video
Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon
Transaction Pub. c 2002. $19.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 0765809133)
An analysis of the social, psychological and cultural significance of video games,
with an in-depth look at four important video games.
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Die
Laughing
Die Laughing is a humorous mystery that spoofs avant-garde art and reveals a great
deal about and satirizes academic life. Eliot Glumpe, the president of Mid California
State University, is murdered while dining in the middle of a crowded room. A
small poison dart is found in his thigh. How did the murderer do it? There were
many people who hated Glumpe. Which of them hated him enough to kill him? Die
Laughing is a humorous mystery that explores the inner workings of academic life
and offers insights into the comedy of life.
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Jean
Chapman
The
Unreasoning Earth
1st World War set in Leics - the aching wait for a soldier to return.
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Savage
Legacy
An Edwardian love story across social divides.
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The
Bellmakers
Mandarin. c 1995. trade paper. (ISBN: 0749320826)
A family of women striving to make a living in the 1880's become involved with
a family of bellmakers, but prejudice, superstition and gossip threaten.
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Fortune's
Woman
Dales Large Print. c1993. £8.99 large
pr. paperback. (ISBN 1853894028)
1926 General Strike and the fortunes of a young woman sent to care for an Aunt
living in a mining village where she becomes involved in the miners' causes, their
hates and their loves.
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A
World Apart
Soundings. c 1999. £46.94 Audio
Cassette. (ISBN 1860426271)
A young girl's ambition to be a journalist coincides with the end of the
1939-45 war. Her mother's uncaring harshness is unexplained until the end of the
novel by which time her daughter has reported on the Nuremberg trials, followed
the fate of girls who married G.I.s and become involved with two very different
men.
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The
Red Pavilion
the love stories of mother and daughter set in Malaya in 1948 during the communist
insurgence. The daughter regards Malaya as home, the mother leaves.
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The
Soldier's Girl
Soundings. c 2000. £46.95 Audio Cassette. (ISBN:
1860427294)
The evacuation of London children to the far south west of Cornwall was a culture
shock to both. The Cockney spirit is unbowed by prejudice, trauma, war or personal
tragedy - and triumphs in the end.
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This
Time Last Year
Piatkus Books. c 1999. £15.29 hardcover. (ISBN 0749904836)
the story of an English girl caught up in the German invasion of France because
of her family's friendship with an Avignon family. The story of two journeys,
one through war-torn France, the other from girl to womanhood.
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A
New Beginning
Inner Circle Books. c2001. £14.39 hardcover. (ISBN 850181187)
This novel is woven around the factual events and experiences of four real sisters
who were caught up in the evacuation of Gibraltar during the second world war,
their arduous sea voyages and lives in London in the height of the Blitz.
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Jean Chapman
began her writing career as freelance journalist, moving on to fiction, writing
short stories which have been published in a wide range of markets, then novels.
She has studied for B.A. (Hons) Degree (O.U.) after finding she had several academics
in the same creative writing class. Ms. Chapman has reviewed and appraised for
East Midlands Arts and Readers' Digest. She had a children's novel
short listed for Blackie/Scottish Book Trust Award, and her first and eighth
novels short-listed for RNA Major Award. Jean enjoys travelling all over
the world (wherever her books are set) and coming home to life in small Leics.
village. She is Chairman Romantic Novelists Association.
David
Clayton
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Jackie
Habgood
Get
Well with the Hay Diet
Souvenir Press Ltd. c1999. £7.99 trade paper. (ISBN 0285635352)
The Hay diet is a nature cure and you are on the mend from the moment you begin
it...
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The
Hay Diet Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Food Combining
Souvenir Pr Ltd. c1997. $10.36 trade paper. (ISBN: 0285633791).
A practical guide to food combining with advice on medically unrecognised illness...
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Richard
D. Hawkins
Telephone
Abuse
Minerva Press. c2000. £13.99
trade paper. (ISBN: 0754113795)
Written in the heat of spring and summer 1999 this was the product of volatility
and an uncertain outcome reflected back onto the page with my first full length
fiction. No storyline and outcome was in mind when portraying a male character
who finds 'doors closed' in his familiar area but with the help of a female partner
he establishes himself in Spain (again just an improvisation at the time) and
when the pressure increases further he rises to finance a hotel that is frequented
by a variety of pretty cool characters.
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Beyond
the Weather Friends
Janus Publishing. c2001. £7.95
trade paper. (ISBN: 1857565258)
Written through the Millenium (1999 to 2000) this was something that remained
understated in the background during another episode of relative uncertainty during
which my father died and I created what at the time of writing is still the best
Home Made music. The central character is a Danish policeman (improvisation with
no racism intended) who is in the unlikely setting of a British northern town.
Jesper is given the task of 'beating' a couple of Brits and for this purpose he
teams up with a divorcee from the Isle of Mann. Realism cannot be upheld and the
story descends into a metaphor concerning 'quality of creation' both with writing
and from my own point of view perhaps music also.
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Lewis
LaCook
Cling
anabasis. c2000. $11.00 paper. (ISBN 1930259042)
a chapbook-length epic Post-Language autobiography abstraction/poem, dealing with
drugs, sex, death, gender, abuse, alienation, love, bliss and existence at the
dawn of the new millenium.
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Gregory
Farnum
The
Event
Domhan Books. c1999. $12.95 trade paper. (ISBN 1583455531)
a a near future techno-thriller about a man who takes a new job only to find himself
trapped in the ominous electronic funhouse that his/our world has become. Along
the way there's some humor and even some poetry
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Pauline
Masurel
SIGNALS-3:
Thirty London Magazine Stories
selected by JANE RYE, with an Introduction by ALAN ROSS
Signals-3 is the third collection of stories by London Magazine writers to have
been published in recent years. The anthology includes stories by the Berkshire-based
writers Pauline Masurel, Annie Murray and Judith Wavell. For the past forty years
the London Magazine has been pre-eminent in its publishing of hitherto unknown
authors, several of whom make their appearance in this volume.
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Wendell
Mayo
Centaur
of the North
Arte Público Press. c1996 and 1999. $11.95 trade paper. (ISBN 1-558-85165-8)
Centaur of the North is the winner of the Aztlán Prize for best book of fiction
by an emerging Latino writer and sole Finalist in the Associated Writing Programs
Award Series in Short Fiction. The New York Times Book Review calls it "a powerful
first collection" and Choice, "highly recommended." U.S. National Book Award winner
Ernest Gaines calls the stories in the collection, "wonderful...entertaining."
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In
Lithuanian Wood
White Pine Press. c1999. $14 trade paper.(ISBN 1-877727-87-3)
"Mayo has an eye for the small details, the ironies of custom and tradition...
Such richly diverse stories suggest a powerful merging of history and folklore
with everyday life...In Lithuanian Wood contains many striking, poetic moments."
-The Los Angeles Times
"Minds addled by too much suffering and minds that adapted." - Hungry Mind Review
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B.
Horror and Other Stories
Livingston Press. c1999. $11 trade paper. (ISBN 0-942979-61-3); $23 cloth (ISBN
0-942979-62-1)
"Beguiling ... Mayo, in his third book, demonstrates that 'horror' can mean something
as simple as fear and apprehension, and in patient, sharp prose, he pushes his
characters into small psychic duels, where people come close to understanding
each other but can't--or won't--get there." -The New York Times Book Review
"Grand writing... Don't Pass this by." -Kirkus Reviews
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Vernon
Moyse
Of
Cheese and Rice and Rattlesnakes
Fisherfleet Press. c1999. £4.95 trade paper. (ISBN 0 9537248 0 8 63)
Biography: Born in Kings Lynn and educated at King Edward VII Grammar School and
the University of Birmingham, I am a published poet, author and watercolour painter.
I bill myself as "The Artist known as George III", not because I am
mad and pee blue, but because (in addition to those attributes) I am an admirer
of "Farmer George" and advocate invading America and reclaiming the
colony. My poetry is "angry old man" stuff bordering on "Disgusted
of Tunbridge Wells" but with healthy overtones of "Worried Blue Eyes
of Bognor".
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Anna
Perera
Lolly
Woe
Oxford University Press. c2001. £3.44 trade paper. (ISBN: 0199193800)
Used for top two years in primary schools to encourage reluctant readers! 'Collect
1000 lolly sticks in three days. Only really sad kids would go in for a competition
like that. But the prize is a fantastic, brand new TV, and Albie wants a TV very
badly...'
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Skew
Whiff
Oxford University Press. c2001. £4.10 trade paper. (ISBN:
019915967X)
A humerous novel used as part of school's literacy programme. 'Anjuli thinks she
can do anything - except perhaps maths. She can't wait to try out Pete's new tools.
But when Pete tries to get ready for his birthday party, their DIY turns into
disaster. Can they really persuade their friends to get them out of this mess?'
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Christopher
Pressler
Canning
Circus
Heartland Publishing Ltd. c2001. £14.00 trade paper. (ISBN: 0952518724)
Christopher Pressler's first novel is set in the caves beneath and through the
streets of the legendary English city of Nottingham. The narrator, who has lost
his name attempts to rediscover it by telling the stories of his friends, a genuine
mish-mash of fairies, Sheriffs and boys without hearts. Canning Circus stands
as a love-letter to Nottingham.
"A major modern novel...Pressler's Nottingham is light, full of possibilities,
poetic, lyrical." - Abraxis Magazine
"Canning Circus is a rich mix of languages and images."
- Nottingham Evening Post
"There is a love for the magical and empathy for everyday tragedy, which
is a rare combination for an English male writer."
- County Lit Magazine
"A star in the making." - BBC Online
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So
Far So Linear
Paupers' Press. c.2000. £9.95 trade paper. (ISBN:
0946650705)
A collection of essays on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Working through Winterson's
fictions from 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' to 'The World and Other Places',
Pressler finds new responses in these equally loved and misunderstood modern masterpieces.
So Far So Linear was the first consideration of length of Winterson's work
and is now soon to enter its third edition.
"In this book Pressler writes personally of his encounters with Winterson's
work...to map out the complicated structures of the novels using a method of cross-culture
analysis."
- Anna Troberg of the Jeanette Winterson Reader's Site at www.winterson.net
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Dan
Raphael
Energumen
Energumen is a fairly dense book, with a thicker rythmic flow. More straight-ahead
surrealism and Language Poetry influenced word range. A handmade xerox printed
book, with poems in different sizes and several excellent collages often using
pieces of text.
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Molecular
Jam
Wordcraft of Oregon. c1996. $7.95 trade paper. (ISBN 187765521X)
Compared with trees through the road the verbiage is denser, the momentum
a bit higher and the topic view perhaps also larger, more universal and speculative.
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trees
through the road
nine muses books. c1997. $7.50 trade paper. (ISBN 1878888234)
trees through the road is a 32 page collection with an ecological bent,
looking at the clash between man/technology and nature/spirit. There is a wide
range of references, from physics to food to contemporary culture, and good rhythmic
momentum. Overall the selection leans toward the lighter/less-dense side of Raphael's
work, as this was the first half of a longer book; the second half exists as Molecular
Jam.
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Nina
Rapi
ACTS
OF PASSION: sexuality, gender and performance
Haworth. c1995. $19.95 trade paper. (ISBN 1560231084)
"This long overdue...significant and impressive publication draws together
a diversity of positions, practices and polemics in relation to post modern lesbian
performance...Acts of Passion is an entertaining, provocative and influential
collection that comfortably blends complex cultural theory with moving personal
testimony to offer an overview of one of the most exciting developments in contemporary
performance that cannot, and should not, be negated or ignored." - Lois Keidan,
Director of Live Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
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SEVEN
PLAYS BY WOMEN,
ed. Cherryl Robson, Aurora Metro
Consortium Book Sales & Dist. c1999. $124.95 trade paper. (ISBN 0951587714)
Includes Nina's play ITHAKA.
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Martin
Sexton
We
Love You
Content: 112pp full colour book + 18 track CD
Booth-Clibborn Editions. c2000. $27.97 hardcover & CD. (ISBN: 1861540884)
'We Love You': Is presented in the form of a book/CD - a new format, a "Futique"
- a collectable piece of the future. A unique collection of Sonic Artworks featuring
collaborations between innovative musical originators such as: Brian Eno, Derrick
May, Hugh Cornwell, AddNtoX, Boy George, Pet Shop Boys..with a cross section of
the most cutting-edge British Contemporary Artists - including: Tracey Emin, Chris
Ofili, Gilbert & George, Gavin Turk and many more.
"A genuinely gorgeous collection of literate groove music." -
Laura Lee Davies, TIME OUT.
"We Love You - pretentious, silly, funny, frequently better than Robbie
Williams." - Matthew Collings, TATE Magazine.
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Andrea
Sherwood
One
Siren or Another
A collection of poems about the darker side of life.
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Kenji
Siratori
Blood
Electric
Creation Books. c2002. Trade Paper ( ISBN: 1840680601)
Breaking with all existing writing traditions, Kenji Siratori-a young Japanese
writer-unleashes his first major publication Blood Electric. Firmly rooted in
the 21st century digital-age, Siratori's cyber-punk writing is more concerned
with vivid images, pace and developing a new writing and reading experience (which
echoes the Surealists, Burroughs and French avant-garde Pierre Guyotat), than
linear narrative and character development.
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Jean
Smith
The
Ghost Of Understanding
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd. c1998 . $12.95 trade paper. (ISBN 1551520508)
"A complex post-modern weave of letters, Mecca Normal tour stories, and ghostly
imaginings from Smith's narrator Claudine. Smith, the singing half of the musical
duo Mecca Normal, self-conciously discusses her refusal of plot in the novel,
and revels in the ambiguity and jarring effect this might have on her readers.
Smith is no art-girl pretender, but a fine and unusual novelist who could easily
quit her day job for this sideline." - The Loop, Vancouver
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Celebrating 15 years since the first Mecca Normal album release!
http://meccanormal.tripod.com
was launched in May 2001. The website has reviews, history, lyrics, links, photos
and songs.
Jean Smith was recently awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to write her
third novel.
Wendy
Tokunaga
No
Kidding
iUniverse.com. c2000. $12.95 trade paper. (ISBN: 0595130356)
What happens when everyone around you is blissfully popping babies like so many
rabbits, your mother wants a grandchild more than anything else in the world,
but you're just not interested? Meet Audrey Mills, a 35-year-old Silicon Valley
techie who has a loving live-in boyfriend, a decent job, and a passion for old
movies, but who suffers from a sort of divine discontent. Something's missing
in Audrey's life --- one she has spent trying to please her former Hollywood actress
mother, her competitive sister and everyone else but herself --- and she's determined
to find out what it is now. Enter Tyrone Power look-alike, Aldo. He's not only
handsome, he's smart, fun, and most of all, devastatingly sexy. Should Audrey
risk giving up the security and love she already has for this charmer who seems
too good to be true? Audrey starts to realize that life isn't a dress rehearsal
and you sure can't call "cut" the way you do in the movies. Will she be able to
write her own happy ending?
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Richard
Catlett Wilkerson
A
Brief History of Dream Sharing: Techniques, Theory and Cyberspace
DreamGate. c1999. $29.95 CD-rom. (ISBN: 1585480088)
The Internet has allowed the Dream Movement global networking from which the resources
on this CD were developed, including online dreamwork, a course in the history
of dreamwork, postmodern dreaming, access to Electric Dreams and the Association
for the Study of Dreams Cyberphile. These articles have been collected and published
as a book on CD.
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