"What the Body Requires is to the mind what chocolate is to the tongue — rich and decadent." —Carolyn Szczepanski, The Pitch
 "Some moments involve hi stakes situations and a bit of mystery, though I’d never call What the Body Requires a genre novel. This book is highly sexual, but never cliched. Di Blasi just kills it." —The Next Best Book Blog
 "Highly ambitious and of the deepest seriousness... with an evocative prose and an exotic, vividly imagined landscape. The consistency with which the writing invests everyday actions and objects with an almost erotic fervor is truly extraordinary." 
–R.M. Berry, author of Leonardo's Horse, Dictionary of Modern Anguish, and Frank 
 DESCRIPTION: Madeline Rivera goes to Europe to kill her husband, a musician, but falls in love with his doppleganger, an Italian policeman. Structured as a symphony, What the Body Requires explores a woman’s sexuality and passion for art as she slides into the madness of revenge. Structured around an elaborate symphony, What the Body Requires is ripe with music references, musicians and the intentionally overt drama of opera.

What the Body Requires: a symphonic novel

Literature & Fiction

Di Blasi, Debra

Literary

Jaded Ibis Press

Book #1 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series "Lyrical and funny and wise, Catto's one-of-a-kind family memoir is a stunning valentine to story telling." - Catherine Browder, author of Secret Lives "An intimate, rather than private look at family life, Patricia Catto applies an impeccable ear and a Coppola-like eye to paint a wonderfully exquisite, moving memoir of the Italian-American experience. Grazie!" - Joey Nicoletti, author of Cannoli Gangster "Brisk, frank and always funny... With surpassing compassion, Catto animates the mothers, fathers, seers, ne'er-do-wells, misanthropes and heroes, whose sincerity and humor bring the lost world of Aunt Pig to spiny, sweet, crackling life." -George Guida, author of New York and Other Lovers: Poems Illustrations by Debra Di Blasi. This book is also available in Kindle and fine art limited editions.

Aunt Pig of Puglia: Ricordi de la Familia Ferri

Biographies & Memoirs

Catto, Patricia

Arts & Literature

"A brilliant tour de force!" "David Hoenigman's terse, staccato prose is the language of consciousness, and his book not so much anti-narrative as true to the realities of one's inner sense-making, true to the convoluted and seemingly disparate tales we tell ourselves - shifting, elusive tales that are on every page complimented by the vivid heterogeneity of Yasutoshi Yoshida's artwork. In short, Burn Your Belongings is a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise. - Gary J. Shipley, author of Theoretical Animals

Burn Your Belongings

Hoenigman, David

Black and White edition. Full color also available. "Schneiderman’s novel [exists] in historical and interdisciplinary context, to show that his book enters into an ongoing conversation.... Perhaps the novel is not the most important aspect of the work; maybe the conversations, questions, reactions engendered by the object of the novel are more important." – Christopher Higgs, "What is Experimental Literature," for HTMLGiant Davis Schneiderman's 200-page novel, Blank, contains only 20 compelling chapter titles and pyrographic (burned paper) drawings by artist Susan White. The story's meaning is, as it has always been, up to the reader. When you buy this book, Jaded Ibis Press donates half of our proceeds to the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation and Tanna Center for The Arts, a project founded by renowned experimental musician Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky. The artists retreat will function as a closed-loop demonstration model, incorporating a digital media lab and island-restorative education center to aid the goals expressed by the people of this tropical paradise. “Help fortify global understanding of one another and the changes we face together.” – Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

Blank

Schneiderman, Davis

FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION: Award-winning author Lily Hoang invited some of the top innovative writers in the U.S. to submit unfinished stories that she then completed over the course of one summer. Although Hoang attempted to follow each respective writer's style, the stories are distinctly her own, resulting in a mesmerizing and highly entertaining collection. Unfinished stories were donated by Kate Bernheimer, Blake Butler, Beth Couture, Debra Di Blasi, Justin Dobbs, Trevor Dodge, Zach Dodson, Brian Evenson, Scott Garson, Carol Guess, Elizabeth Hildreth, John Madera, Ryan Manning, Michael Martone, Kelcey Parker, Ted Pelton, Kathleen Rooney, Davis Schneiderman, Michael Stewart, and J.A. Tyler. Unfinished cover and interior art was donated by notable and naive artists, then finished by artist and gallery curator, Anne Austin Pearce.

Unfinished: stories finished by Lily Hoang

Hoang, Lily

Short Stories & Anthologies

“Destined for cult status.” – Alex Martin, Outsider Writers Collective “David Hoenigman's Burn Your Belongings is a dense narrative of choppy sentences that elude the human desire for story at almost every turn. When read aloud, mantralike, the thick walls of text take on the feel of religious chant, a prayer to weariness and sickness and anxiety. At other times, they flutter with moments of happiness and love, and feel exponentially more like real life than anything Hemingway or any naturalist ever put to paper. In the margins of each page is a different vibrant color collage by Yasutoshi Yoshida. … The collages add another layer, another conversation, to the book.” – Paul Constant, book critic for The Stranger Burn Your Belongings slowly, relentlessly builds the emotional ebb and flow of a love triangle over a period of months, perhaps years. Every fear, joy, doubt, hatred, desire and elation manifests through a litany of interior monologues – from the mundane to the profound and always beautifully lyrical. The accretion of imagery and often frighteningly stark examination of Self and Other create a transformational emotional experience. Hoenigman's brilliance is his ability to transfer language to the reader so that by novel's end, the feelings and observations of the characters become not their memories but the reader's own.

Burn Your Belongings: a novel

Hoenigman, David F.

Contemporary

FULL COLOR EDITION, with Holga photographs by Rochelle Ritchie Spencer  “Janice Lee is a genius.” – Eileen Myles, author of Inferno (a poet’s novel)  “Daughter is quantum. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language – in minimal bursts of physical intensities, their magnitude measured in intimate discretes. Janice Lee's prose is energy transfer of the elementary particles of the matter of language. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language, understood at the infinitesimal level. No other book ever written has entered my body and being so physically pure. There is not distance between the state of narrative and the matter of being. I turn the page of her body.”   – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Reel to Reel  “Daughter, the new volume by Janice Lee, seems to rise as intuitive quantum ascent. It is praxis of the marred, of the seemingly uneven. Janice Lee understands that writing cannot exist as narrative outcome. In Daughter there is reckoning with the cosmos as phantom, as something that does and does not exist. Energies appear by means of paradox and evaporation.”   – poet Will Alexander, author of The Sri Lankan Loxodrome  "In Daughter, Janice Lee floods the body of a book with the body of a body, all its hybrid, constantly damaging and mending cells. From field to field among the pages we are subject to a brain-damaged, collide-o-scopic file of some internet-age Acker'd Frankenstein having lived to see god die; and yet still must go on walking in the deity's corpse, inside of which the billion bodies in such image have built our huts of shit and shit inside them. 'The sea is a mysterious force, but there is no sea in the desert,' she writes, prodding at the hole left in the fabric on the earth between the homes: another phantom in a field of phantoms who themselves have again died. The result is a meticulous and terrifying resurrection, a glitchy screamtext passed in dire silence to the reader the way blood passes from mother into child." – Blake Butler, author of There is No Year  "'The word 'monster' derives from Latin monstrum, an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order.' (Wikipedia) As Janice Lee proves, the same is true for daughters. Lee's surgical cadences and sharp fragments work here as writing will work-to force attention to detail. Which is the unnatural order of things." – Vanessa Place, author of La Medusa and Dies: A Sentence

Daughter: a novel

Lee, Janice

FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION Book #3 in our Blue Bustard Memoir Series “Best LGBT Book of 2012” —Laurie Weeks "Anna Joy Springer fabulates a trauma memoir of losing her bipolar lover to AIDS and, in so doing, creates a unique literary form, one that ignores the often fraught line between truth and fiction in pursuit of something more elusive" —American Book Review “A powerful book of love, trauma, loss, and forgiveness.” —Lambda Literary “A page turner...electric” —Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette and Culture of One “There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do. I love this book.” —Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre “Anna Joy Springer’s The Vicious Red Relic, Love is a gnarly siren song of a book.... [O]nce read, it will live perfectly inside you forever.” —HTMLGiant “This writing just turns me on. The blatantness. The naming. The pain of becoming and being revealed by way of the prurient requirements of our relations.” —The Lit Pub "With intelligence and heart she enlarges the things of which a novel is capable. How very lucky I am to have read it!" —Carole Maso , author of AVA and Break Every Rule “My god, this book is beautiful... Each sentence is a journey.” —Doug Rice, author of Between Appear and Disappear and Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest  “She writes about sex, lust, passion, power so damn well, too damn well. She doesn't separate any of it. She keeps it close. Tight and scary.... I highly recommend this book.” —The Collagist

The Vicious Red Relic, Love: a fabulist memoir

LGBTQ+ Books

Springer, Anna Joy

“AN EXCITING NEW TALENT” – Robert Coover, author of Noir Finalist in Chiasmus Press First Book Competition, Starcherone Press Prize for Innovative Fiction, and Subito Press Annual Book Competition. Recipient of a Creative Arts Council Grant at Brown University. “Stylish blogger, gifted wordsmith, linguistic cinematographer, Roxanne Carter herein charges hard and fast past the current borders of the book and into fresh textual territories all her own. Glamorous Freak is wonderful and wonderfully unsettling work. Reading it you will not be indifferent. Reading it you will listen and listening you will, with Carter, ‘be able to recognize the flickering hurricane knocking tree limbs against the door.’” – Laird Hunt, author of The Paris Stories “Roxanne Carter creates a figure of grave and astonishing intelligence, sensitivity and perception: the woman at once so near and so far, so here and so there, haunted seemingly by another narrative, just outside of our reach, and there’s something very beautiful about that. And we’re astonished that so much longing and mystery can be held in this way in one book. I’d follow this wom aninto any night, into any film, into any day.” – Carole Maso, author of Disgrace and AVA Roxanne Carter’s sparkling debut fiction is a playful innovative engagement with the mirrored self, stylishly written, wittily framed. An exciting new talent. – Robert Coover, author of Noir

Glamorous Freak: How I Taught My Dress To Act

Carter, Roxanne

“The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new.” – Walter Benn Michaels, American literary theorist, and author of The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History "It is a pleasure to think about what Grimes's art is thinking, but the greatest pleasure, like the pleasure of music, is in the unfolding inventions of the language itself." – Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of “Homeland Security” try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their economic woes. Meanwhile their wives threaten to follow a guru to India in search of their own inner security. The Pornographers sizzles with ripe language, humor and serious and real concerns about America in the 21st Century, all bundled with good, old-fashioned dramatic suspense. Oh, and by the way, the novel is written as a single, grammatically-correct sentence.

The Pornographers: a novel

Grimes, Christopher

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