You, Me and Morrissey, by Colin Nasseri &amp; Sean Starr is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness. Each story is set to the soundtrack of a Smiths or Morrissey title or lyric, and documents the trials of youth and adulthood, and how the music and the ever-present specter of Morrissey influenced and altered the paths of the authors forever. From 1980's humdrum Texas towns, to a San Francisco meeting with Morrissey himself, the stories revolve around the ups and downs of balancing an art-driven life with the insanities of day to day living in the "real world."

You, Me And Morrissey

Arts & Photography

Starr, Sean

Nasseri, Colin

History & Criticism

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"The Artist's Tao" is a collection of 44 principles that encourage introspection and reflection for artists. The material is drawn from hundreds of conversations and correspondences between Starr and other artists around the world dealing with subjects such as fighting discouragement, maintaining balance, and measuring success.

The Artist's Tao: 44 Principles for an Artist's Life

In "The Wooden Tongue Speaks" exiled Romanian author Bogdan Tiganov takes us on a journey to the interior of his home town of Braila in a collection of short stories and poetry. In this post cold-war collection, we discover the social, religious and political issues facing a people just now emerging into a world of contradictions and realities.

The Wooden Tongue Speaks: Romanians: Contradictions And Realities

Literature & Fiction

Tiganov, Bogdan

Dramas & Plays

Lost Souls in the Fish Bowl: Short Stories and Poetry is the first anthology by Subculture Books of the collected work from the Ursa Major Poets. The Ursa Major Poets are a group of writers from around the world who have participated at the Ursa Major Poetry Slam in Big Bear, California at the now defunct Eastside Book Cafe and the poets who contribute their work to the Ursa Major Poetry Blog (http://ursamajorpoetry.wordpress.com/). This year's featured poets are Danielle Pia and Wyatt Hull. The anthology also includes work by Dea Allen, Judith Amanda, Khadija Anderson, Little Brother, Martyn Clayton, Gordon Ford, Sam France, Mathew Horvitz, Matt Kalinowski, Marc Ladewig, Carol Anne Lapolla, Glen L. Lantz, Shane Lee, Laura Fay Lewis, Rochelle Luer, Aaron J. Marko, Rita Meacham, Colin Nasseri, Adam Pettet, Richard Allen Saare, Cassandra Sears, Jeremy Silas, Jeffrey Dale Starr, Kayleigh Starr, Sean Starr, Christopher Stone, Bogdan Tiganov, Victoria.

Lost Souls In The Fish Bowl: Short Stories And Poetry

Hull, Wyatt

Pia, Danielle

Poetry

In Envisioning Sustainability Planet Drum Foundation Founder Peter Berg provides us with a collection of the important essays that helped define the bioregional movement and established Berg as an icon in the environmental community. This collection, which spans three decades of Berg's life work, combines the candor, humor and vision that helped shape the sustainability revolution. From his home environment of San Francisco, to his work in Japan and Ecuador, Berg speaks with authority on the bioregional aspects of sustainability as cities around the world adopt and execute his Green City model.

Envisioning Sustainability

Business & Money

Berg, Peter

Economics

Taras Bulba

In Gogol's historical short novel, Taras Bulba, he takes us on a journey into the world of the ancient Ukrainian Cossacks. Taras Bulba, an old Cossack, sends his two sons Andriy and Ostap to study at the Kiev Academy. After returning, the three men embark on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich in Ukraine to join other Cossacks to go to war against the Polish nobles. Eugene Hütz is better known as the singer, lyricist and visionary of the internationally acclaimed Gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello. Born in Kiev in 1972, Hütz's road to the United States was a long trek through Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy, an immigrant experience that informs much of his band's material. Descendants of Gypsies called the Serva Roma (a tribe known for its blacksmiths, pottery makers and musicians), his family relocated to Vermont after the Chernobyl meltdown through a Refugee resetelment program. "It's the last place where I wanted to go," Hütz says of the Green Mountain State. "Once I saw Sonic Youth in 1989 in Kiev, all I wanted to do is be in New York." It was in 1998 that Hütz finally moved to New York and formed what would become the eight-piece lineup of Gogol Bordello. The band's name pays homage to the author of Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol whose writings remain to be a large influence on the band's ethos, particularly, the innovative treatment of tradition and folklore.  Since their formation Gogol Bordello has been described as one of the best live bands of our time and been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine and Time Magazine to name a few. NPR described their last album as "the best rock album of the decade. Period." Gogol Bordello have created a new level of musical and lyrical intensity in their continuing cultural crusade to build a bridge between Gypsy music, rock 'n roll, reggae and other brands of rebel music.

GÓGOL, NIKOLÄI

Classics

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