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Literature & Fiction

United States

Manic D Press, Inc.

Twenty-six weird tales from the underground, ranging from one-page microbursts of energetic prose to longer.

Bricks And Anchors

Longhi, Jon

Humor & Satire

Graveyard Golf & Other Stories

Kassel, Vampyre Mike

Tying together the loose ends of the slacker/rave/cyberpunk and other as yet unnamed underground movements currently percolating through American alternative culture, this collection erases the boundaries between highbrow literature and lowbrow comix art. Accessible, hard hitting, often humorous, and occasionally hair raising, this eclectic mix includes sordid tales of factory work, punk rock love stories, and alcoholic familial squalor. QUOTE!!!

Signs Of Life: Channelsurfing through '90s Culture

The Verdict Is In

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

“Anyone who’s an admirer of Richard Brautigan’s unclassifiable Trout Fishing in America will be drawn to the eccentric, wandering vision of Longhi’s prose.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian“Longhi’s prose is carefully measured, engaging, laid-back.”—GuardianThe eighties were a crazy time in history: The Left had been crushed by the Reagan White House, most young people were not rebelling . . . in fact, many were more cynical and conservative than their parents. But amidst the widespread regression, a bizarre fungus was sprouting, and its cultural manifestation was punk rock.The stories and novella in The Rise and Fall of Third Leg illustrate just how bent out of shape some punks were: They knew something was really wrong and rotten in America. These side-splittingly funny short stories relive the twisted glory days of homegrown DIY punk rock, from “Road Trip,” in which four benevolent urban skinheads venture forth to rural Montana for a friend’s wedding, to the title novella, which follows the absurd trials and tribulations of a small-town Delaware punk band, Third Leg, as its dreams of superstardom get flushed away in a series of hilarious catastrophes. Jon Longhi is the author of four books, including Wake Up and Smell the Beer. His writing, which critics have compared to Terry Southern, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter S. Thompson, has also recently appeared in San Francisco Noir (Akashic Books) and Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto Press).

The Rise & Fall Of Third Leg

Jon Longhi

Literary

"Juan Felipe Hererra’s writing fuses wide-ranging experimentalism with reflections on Mexican-American identity . . ."—The New York Times
In forty cantos, the poet explores the metaphysical relationship between Frida Kahlo, her art, her broken body, and cross-border consciousness. First published in 1994, this early work—his sixth book—reveals a deep sense of longing for all to be made whole again in spite of fractures—physical, metaphorical, cultural—bestowed by the world.
From "Prologue: A Second Body":
Think on the time it takes a scar to heal,
a river to rise — an old woman to regain the tumbling powers of her busted arms — a young woman (calling herself Frida) to re-structure her shattered vertebrae, to be caught up with a body-cast, a second body which she inhabits — for the rest of her life; this is precious to me, that is all. 
She painted herself somewhere in-between Mexico and the United States — in the open space of the jaws; between the mandibles of the jaguar and the nuclear turbine.
It is the healing of this metaphysical fracture too (which may invoke further breakage) that concerns me.
Juan Felipe Herrera was raised in a farm-working family in the San Joaquin Valley. A graduate of UCLA, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Stanford University, he has written numerous books. Herrera’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN USA Award. Former Poet Laureate of California and now United States Poet Laureate, he lives in Fresno.

The Roots Of A Thousand Embraces

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Beyond Definition confronts questions of sexuality and identity in a collection of dynamic work by established and emerging writers from the San Francisco Bay Area. Urgent and significant issues are explored including coming out to one's parents, transgenderism and coping with the loss of a loved one to AIDS. Features work by Susie Bright, Michelle Tea, Alvin Orloff and more.

Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco

Love Like Rage

Matik, Wendy-O

Poetry

Twisted stories, bone-chilling poems, and harrowing yet humorous comix that deal with failed relationships, religious cults, loneliness, and drugs, penned with razor-sharp precision.

King Of The Roadkills

Sinister, Bucky

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