International Authors’ fifth collection of fiction, poetry and essays, Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5 presents the work of sixty writers and artists from around the world. Edited by Carter Kaplan. Includes the short story Dr. Waxwing's Hotel of Rooms by Bill Ectric |
Time Adjusters and Other Stories Together in one book, here is Time Adjusters, in which insurance companies use a new light-bending technology to capture images of future disaster areas so they can unfairly deny coverage; Space Savers, a macabre blend of science fiction and the supernatural about a sinister plot to control the residents of a retirement home; Cut Up the Stolen Scroll, featuring a stolen Beat Generation artifact and a secret message that turns deadly when subjected to the Burroughs- style cut-up method; Miss Glenly’s Dreadful Room, with the ghost of Jacques Derrida looming in the text; the bizarre and unexplainable saga of The House and the Baboon, and more. In the Introduction to this book, Mikal Covey says, "If you’re lucky enough to have read the previous the original Time Adjusters, then you have the pleasure of comparing the new versions with the old. There’ll be debate and personal preference as to which you like better but in the final analysis you can’t beat good writing." |
“A fanatical satirist and provocateur, British author Steve Aylett writes in multiple genres, usually simultaneously, combining elements of science fiction and fantasy with comedy and a high literary aesthetic. Because of his unique method of narrative hybridization, Aylett has garnered throngs of devotees in underground circles who tend to worship him like a bogie in the sky. He is simply too clever and grandiloquent for genre readers, and he’s too genre for literary readers, infusing his meta- pulp fictions with intricate networks of hi-tech and/or bizarre novums. Like J. G. Ballard, Aylett belies, if not capsizes, formulaic methods and ultimately constitutes a genre in and of himself. A comprehensive study of his singular body of work is long overdue.” - D. Harlan Wilson Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology offers commentary and analysis of Aylett's singular body of work, with original essays by D. Harlan Wilson, Spencer Pate, Bill Ectric, Andrew Wenaus, Iain Matheson, Robert Kiely, Jim Matthews, John Oakes, Michael Norris, Tony Lee, Sam Reader; reprinted material by Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock, and an exclusive interview with Aylett by Rachel Haywire. Edited by Bill Ectric and D. Harlan Wilson. |
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In the mid-1990s, popular interest in Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and the rest of the colorful, profane gang of "Beats" exploded around the United States of America and the entire world. Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, was there to witness it all, standing at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. Beats In Time, a new collection of essays and interviews from the archives of Literary Kicks, captures some of the freshest, most insightful and most irreverent writing about a new literary "craze" focused on some brilliant, eccentric old jazz poets, who barely saw it coming. Here's the tale of Levi Asher's audition for Francis Ford Coppola's movie version of On The Road, and John Perry Barlow's touching explanation of how Neal Cassady inspired the Grateful Dead song "Cassidy". Don Carpenter reminisces about a 1964 poetry reading with Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Lew Welch, Laki Vazakas pays tribute to Marty Matz, Ray Freed pays tribute to Jack Micheline, Robert Creeley talks about web literature, W. S. Merwin and Allen Ginsberg get into a heated argument over forced nakedness as Buddhist prayer, Patricia Elliot describes William S. Burroughs's funeral in Kansas, and Michael McClure describes, on the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary Six Gallery poetry reading, what it all meant. BEATS IN TIME also includes interviews with William S. Burroughs by Lee Ranaldo, Diane DiPrima by Joseph Matheny, John Allen Cassady by Levi Asher and David Amram by Bill Ectric. The book's features an unusual centerpiece: a long recorded email thread featuring over 50 voices on the BEAT-L mailing list during the hours just before and after the announcement of Allen Ginsberg's death. |
"Tamper is somewhere between the X Files and Catcher in the Rye...You WON'T be disappointed!" - Dr. Tim Gilmore, author of This Kind of City: Ghost Stories and Psychological Landscapes, and The Mad Atlas of Virginia King "Engaging literary fiction with compelling characters, an interesting plot with twists, and the skillful layering of several genres, including history, mystery, and a dab or two of the paranormal." - Claudia Moscovici, Literature Salon Tamper is about a boy named Whit, growing up in the 1960s, obsessed with unexplained mysteries, B movies, and strange noises in the basement. By the mid-1970s, he is experimenting with drugs and dark notions that lead to the ancient underground burial chambers in the island of Malta. If you like secret passages, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, nostalgia with a Twilight Zone twist, arcane historical fiction, Tamper is your kind of book. The title comes from a phrase coined by 1940s pulp fiction writer Richard Shaver, who claimed that unseen fiends were invading his brain - tampering with his mind. Whit can relate! |