In this collection of new short fiction, eight contemporary authors take aim against the hyperbole of the death of print by exploring just how far writers and artists will go to promote themselves in an evolving world where the laws of decorum no longer apply. Prophetic, harrowing, and at times laugh-out-loud humorous, these stories walk the fine line between fiction and fact, art and apocalypse, to chronicle a trend that cannot be ignored. The book includes a long-lost story by Terry Southern.

A Brief History of Authoterrorism

Literature & Fiction

Andrei Codrescu

David Rees

Terry Southern

Ben Greenman

Mark Jay Mirsky

Nile Southern

Jeffrey Dorchen

Whitney Anne Trettien

Literary

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Critically shunned when it was first published in 1994, nearly two decades before the rest of the world ever envisioned an Arab Spring, Emirati author Thani Al-Suwaidi saw a cultural shift on the horizon and his novel now serves as a revelation for the modern world—a stream-of-consciousness dissection of an orthodox past and a perilous future which is no longer preventable. With the power of petroleum greater than any society could have imagined, especially in the Middle Eastern communities where it is produced, this story challenges the inhabitants and inheritors of those traditions to push beyond and consider who they are and what they desire. Among contrasting cultures, characters, and mystical creatures in a small Arab community—one accustomed to ancestral attitudes and social constraints—Al-Suwaidi examines this force as ultimately segregating fathers and sons, villages and empires, and love and lust.

The Diesel

Al-Suwaidi, Thani

Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu’s Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades. Born in Transylvania, Romania, Codrescu’s journey spans from his earliest days as a scattered poet in the 1960s to his founding of the journal Exquisite Corpse in 1983 to his ongoing commentary today on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Amid the release of some of his most celebrated books, the author’s story is an insightful address of the survival of the literate world and the transformation of print, told through suspenseful reflection and alluring, signature footnotes.

Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes)

Biographies & Memoirs

CODRESCU, Andrei

Arts & Literature

A 2017 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award honoree Don Quixotic is a series of microfictions that turn on one massive fact - that the president is, if an outsized monster, also an ordinary human being. Don Quixotic looks inside Trump's mind, and finds a Byzantine series of self-justifications, along with an array of odd obsessions, not to mention pain, pleasure, trivia, and consequence. Don Quixotic is both provocation and keepsake. It is both experimental and traditional. It is literature that will both catch fire in the moment and last as long as humans have questions about the minds and motives of other humans.

Don Quixotic

Where's Poppa? is the sophomore effort of a clearly disturbed mind representing a singular moment in American literary history; one in which the legacies of such authors as Joseph Heller and JD Salinger arrive at an unimaginably lewd yet inevitable terminus. It is the product of a Long Island born Jew, not yet thirty, whose self-loathing found expression through the darkly outrageous and improbably hilarious and who would later give the world, not surprisingly, ninety minutes of convulsively funny cadaver abuse in the immensely popular film, Weekend at Bernie's. Robert Klane's tasteless novel, along with his self-penned screen adaptation of the Carl Reiner-directed, cult motion picture starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon, has been offending and entertaining connoisseurs of black comedy since its first publication in 1970. Assuming you were not fortunate enough to put your hands on a copy of the now out-of-print and increasingly rare original, ANTIBOOKCLUB has come to your rescue with this first-ever re-issue of this seminal work by a true master of the genre.

Where's Poppa?

Robert Klane

A new graphic novel from Don Hertzfeldt. The basis for the Oscar-nominated animated film World of Tomorrow.

The End of the World

Don Hertzfeldt

A deliriously dark comedy exploring the absurd tragedy of the human condition when left to the devices of our tech-obsessed society. "I had many things in mind that I wanted to achieve before the Frenchwoman Katia arrived..." So begins the story of Amir Tag Elsir s French Perfume as told by Ali Jarjar the town gossip and schemer of a poor community rich with sleazy bachelors, desperate women, soothsayers and secret police. Tasked to introduce his impoverished town to a chic foreign visitor, Ali's attempts to make the best first impression are left in limbo as the newcomer perpetually postpones her trip. Quickly escalating to a terrifying conclusion, Spike Jonze s Her crashes into Samuel Beckett s Waiting for Godot as our charming narrator allows his attraction for a stranger s online existence to become a frightening obsession in the real world.

French Perfume

Amir Tag Elsir

William M. Hutchins

Terry Southern was one of the most outrageous and penetrating satirists of the twentieth century, judged by Gore Vidal to be 'the most profoundly witty writer' of their generation. As a novelist (Candy, The Magic Christian, Blue Movie), screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Barbarella), pioneer of the New Journalism at Esquire, and writer for Saturday Night Live, Southern had an incomparable gift for exposing the grotesqueries of the American Way of Life while living it to the full. Southern's list of correspondents reads like a cultural Who's Who of the last half-century. In this collection we find letters to fellow writers including Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, George Plimpton, Alex Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Green, Gregory Corso, playwright Jack Gelber, and Mason Hoffenberg (co-author of Candy). His letters extend to Hollywood luminaries such as Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper, and George Segal. Southern also corresponded through the years with legendary performers and artists of the day, among them Lenny Bruce, Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Larry Rivers, and gallery scene-maker/impresario Robert Fraser. Even more idiosyncratic and outrageous when writing to his friends than he was for an audience, Southern dashed off a plethora of hilarious, shocking, frequently offensive, and unprintable missives to his many friends and colleagues. As this brilliant collection reveals, Southern was one of the great letter writers of the twentieth century.

Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern

A 2017 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature A 2017 Lambda Literary Awards finalist A New York Times Best Book Cover of 2016 One of Electric Literature's 16 Most Beautiful Book Covers of 2016 Loner Boz Matthews spends his days working at his grandfather's Louisiana highway diner. His only friends are the Pentecostal preacher's anorexic daughter, Meg, and the ghosts of dead movie stars. But when country music outlaws Catty Mills and Kyle Thomas come to town, Boz's world is turned upside-down, leading to an emotionally turbulent and sexually liberating four-way relationship that challenges small-town beliefs and changes lives forever. Beautiful Gravity is a story of broken dreams and haunted Southern nights--a reminder of what it means to be loved and what it means to be set free.

Beautiful Gravity: A Novel

Martin HYATT

Amelia Adams, besieged with mental illness that no doctor seems to know how to treat, carefully plans and carries out her suicide. Bleeding in the bathtub of her Chicago apartment, she calls 911 so her roommates do not have to come home to find her body. To her horror, EMTs get there sooner than she bargains for, save her life, and deposit her in a psychiatric ward. Amid the relentless onslaught of unwelcome thoughts, visions, and sound--including ghostly children who urge her to hurt herself, and a vicious blind rabbit dipped in tar--Amelia must confront her waking nightmare in a place without escape. This is a personal tale of survival when it is least wanted and a harrowing indictment of our society's failure to help those who live with mental illness. Practical Blasphemy: The New Testament heralds a necessary voice in American fiction--one that sheds much-needed light on what it means to live with mental illness and, just possibly, provides a glimmer of hope to those who struggle daily.

Practical Blasphemy: The New Testament (A Novel)

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