Kigali, Rwanda is the fictional autobiography of a young American diplomat named Derek Johnston who, in the eerie calm of pre-civil war Rwanda in the early 1980s, learns that he has contracted a new and relatively unknown virus, then called HTLV. Since he was 16, Derek has lived for his sometimes secretive and always tempestuous relations with women. In Kigali, he contracts the disease from the local prostitutes as a love affair shatters. Writing at night, Derek is haunted by his childhood in Paris, his high school years in Illinois, his time as a photographer in New York, his passage through Munich, and the women who have defined his life. Struggling to understand the people and events of his distant and recent past, he both discovers and imposes meaning, as all of us are destined to do.Kigali, Rwanda is a meditation on sex, exile, and the constraints of the social world, on the intensity of life and desire and the vanity of human wishes.

Kigali, Rwanda

Fleming, Bruce

Literature & Fiction

Six Gallery Press

A Structure Opera

The Last Great Glass Meat Million is the first collection by Pennsylvania-born poet John Thomas Menesini. An expatriate living in England and Ireland for the latter half of the 90s, this collection has been eagerly awaited by fans on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Last Great Glass Meat Million

Humor & Entertainment

Menesini, John Thomas

Humor

<p>In a mix of computer lingo, group therapy, and two parallel stories revolving around a disk labeled Elizabeth Must Die, this debt novel of hacker-noir follows the narrator through the underbelly of LA, where all paranoid conspiracies. In the seeming inconsistencies and incoherencies that develop, we come to question the nature of artificial intelligence, identity, and memory itself.</p>

Elizabeth Must Die

Jeremy Needle

The poems in The Lakes of Coma range across America and beyond, taking in a wide array of subject matter, from small town unrest to the realities of life in the city, human relationships, race, and sex.  This collection, Begnal's first, displays a unique poetic vision more than ten years in the making.

The Lakes of Coma

Begnal, Michael S.

Biographies & Memoirs

Poetry. MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION is a collection of poems that are highly distorted and experimental renderings of internal dialogues in a pre-grammatical language of a schizophrenic mind.

Meddles Into Preclusion: Collected Poems

Elias, Che

Poetry

Fiction. "REGIONRAT is essentially a tale of friendships, relationships, parties, drugs, and death, that takes place in the first three or four months of 1995. Such material could have easily been mangled by a lesser author--it could have descended into a dry memoir, a vapid and uninteresting story of self-indulgence, or it could have simply been boring. After all, how many novels about high school does there need to be? Thankfully Laskowski sidesteps all of these pitfalls"--Tim Miller.

Regionrat

Laskowski, Richard

The author is cynical and vain; the book is autobiographical. The story of a misogynist with Amiri Baraka for a roommate who drinks and fights his way out of the life of the woman downstairs. The na

Bedford

Pat Lawrence

Dana Killmeyer's lush and assured debut novella introduces the reader to a fine new prose stylist. Through controlled, acute imagery we are given a record of one woman's transition and awakening in a place where the straight and clear shifts to the darkly mystical. "Her prose is clear, crisp, understated - yet at times still manages to convey the warp of the dream." --Michael S. Begnal "Paradise is a tale of apres-divorce angst and solace-seeking in a strange land. Killmeyer paints such a rich portrait that it's hard to believe the storyline spans just two days." --Anna Dubrovsky

Paradise, or the part that dies.

Killmeyer, Dana

Leaders & Notable People

Extraordinary work, extraordinary. Probably the best conceived, most cohesive and resonant prose-poem sequence I have ever read (outside of Rene Char or, maybe St. John Perse. And Rimbaud, of course- if Illuminations is really a sequence.) Supple dream images, wonderful intertwining with Proust and the facts of daily life. -Andrew Wilson, publisher, Gargoyle and Linnaean Street

Streets for Two Dancers

Gibbons, Robert

Arts & Photography

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