A sci-fi trip to all the everyday dimensions finds this escapade starring Victory Chimp, master of the multiverse. On an Earth where chimps are the psychic slaves of the human race, Victory Chimp begins to rattle the cage of oppression, providing a coming-of-age tale unlike any other.

Victory Chimp

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hagerty, Neil

Science Fiction

Drag City

These eight limited-run fanzines were originally created between 1992 and 1999 and were sold out of the Alleged and Andrea Rosen galleries in New York City. Collected together for the first time, all of the original content is represented—low-concept, hilarious juxtapositions of words; scribbles and doodles; lists; monologues; free verse; jokes; innuendo; and both fake and real interviews. They blur the lines between fantasy and reality, and are often prankster in nature and laugh-out-loud funny. With weird musings, fake celebrity gossip, and hastily drawn art, this collection is a must have for fans of the authors and lovers of pop culture.

The Collected Fanzines

Arts & Photography

Korine, Harmony

Gonzales, Mark

Individual Artists

A collection of fictional but semi-autobiographical stories, this work comes from one of the most influential guitarists in music history. The tales are recalled in a conversational, feverish tone, following the musician in his childhood and young adulthood in post-World War II suburbia, pausing along the way for moments of clarity and introspection. The stories resist categorization—part memoir, part personal essay, part fiction, and part manifesto they simply stand alone, having their own logic, religious dogma, and mythological history.

How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life

Literature & Fiction

Fahey, John

Essays & Correspondence

The Licht take is this: as a fan and an actual guitarist of repute, he's got a few observations and interpretations of the trends we've all been subjected to here in the US 80s/90s. Tracing the whole thing back to the sixties (what did you expect, going all the way back to the blues?), Alan takes on the NYC scene, the avant-garde, chart-busting synth-pop, the chilly days of the cold war, the even chillier days of post rock and more, breaking it all down into easy to read chunks. You owe it to the indie-rock fan in yourself to get An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn.

An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn

Licht, Alan

Music

The Adventures of Royal Trux

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

The album titles of more than 300 musical acts are turned on their heads—and their backs and their sides—when the anagram process is applied and collected in this encyclopedia. The entries take the titles of these classic pop and rock albums and employs the anagram form, resulting in new phrases which are both eerily accurate and disturbingly prophetic. Equally mindful of tradition and experience in the anagram-making, the hilarious and surprising, if somewhat harsh, truths about the albums will appeal to music lovers and word game aficionados alike.

Warm Voices Rearranged: Anagram Record Reviews

Humor & Entertainment

Kearney, Brandan

Turkington, Gregg

Humor

Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman’s first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Uncannily inspired, Berman’s poems walk through doors into rooms where where one might hear “I can’t remember being born / and no one else can either / even the doctor who I met years later / at a cocktail party” (from “Self-Portrait at 28”), or praise “the interval called hangover / a sadness not co-terminous with hopelessness” (from “Cassette Country”) and “that moment when you take off your sunglasses / after a long drive and realize it’s earlier / and lighter out than you had accounted for” (“The Charm of 5:30”). At that time, Berman was called a modern-day Wallace Stevens and a next-wave John Ashberry, with his own logic, awareness of pop culture and sensitivity to the details of the post-postmodern world in his poems. Alongside his lyrics to a half-dozen infamous Silver Jews records, Actual Air endeared Berman to lovers of poetry, prose, and music alike. Poet James Tate said it best: “It is a book for everyone.” And poet laureate Billy Collins could only add, “This is the voice I’ve waited so long to hear.” The second edition of the hardcover version of Actual Air is limited to 1000 copies. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, updated full-color endpapers, dust-jacket featuring a photo of the artist around the time of publication, and of course the poems that inspired all this fuss in the first place.

Actual Air

Berman, David

Poetry

A wide range of memoir-like pieces, including interviews, letters, and verse, makes this collection a fitting companion to Fahey's How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. Published posthumously, this volume rounds out the life of the legendary guitarist and composer, providing more backstory behind his creative ferocity. The stories provide a personal view into decades of his poignant insights into life and music.

Vampire Vultures

Satirical essays and short stories born from the singular imagination of a forerunner of the alternative music scene make up this collection. The works show the songwriter’s impressive command of language and distinctive storytelling abilities, combining the best of his dry wit and natural talent for satire. Select pieces were previously published in Bikini, Index, Lowbrow Reader, Raygun, and The Comics Journal.

Public Works

An anthology of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius. The selections are written in a scholarly yet engaging style, filled with parody and biting humor that subvert capitalist culture, and cover such topics as the ascent of the DJ as a star, the “cosmic depression” that followed the defeat of the USSR, and the status of rock and roll as a religion. The pocket-sized book is bound with a durable bright-pink plastic cover, recalling the aesthetics of Mao’s The Little Red Book, and perfect for carrying into the fray of street battle, classroom, or lunch counter argument.

The Psychic Soviet

Svenonius, Ian

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