Created from fragments used to write songs, this memoir recalls a life of music told in bursts of wild inspiration. Rick Berlin, the queer Boston music legend, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, The Shelly Winters Project, and currently of The Nickel &amp; Dime band, is known for his zany lyrics and unflinching wit. Exploring boyhood, filial relationships, animals, sex, drugs, and the dynamic social workings of Boston through the decades, Rick Berlin's work is "uncategorizable...part punk, part musical theater, part sentimental sap, part wordplay master. Gold" (Amanda Palmer). About Cutlass Press: Established in 2016 by the award-winning independent bookstore Papercuts, Cutlass Press publishes cutting-edge books as weapons of choice.

The Paragraphs

Rick Berlin

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"An imaginative spin on the crime fiction genre." -The New York Times
"An absorbing tale of mystery and longing and the dark struggles of the human condition, I was completely swept up by this anthropomorphized society." -Diane Les Becquets, bestselling author of Breaking Wild
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In a feral twist on crime fiction, Cal, a mutt with a criminal past, must avenge the death of his wife and protect his pups from the inherent darkness of nature and the cold cruelness of the looming winter. 
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Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All

Christopher Irvin

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The Paragraphs

Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All