Author: Sean Carswell
Publisher: Manic D Press
ISBN: 1933149760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In this metaphysical thriller, a thirty-something punk rocker fleeing a troubled marriage is hired for a grant writing job at a southern California psychiatric hospital. When he gets tangled up in a neuropsychiatrist's mysterious research and is subsequently targeted by a nefarious advertising executive, the situation spins dangerously out of control. Sean Carswell is the author of four books. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Thrasher and The Southeast Review. He co-founded Razorcake magazine and Gorsky Press. He currently lives in Ventura, California, and is a professor of American literature at California State University Channel Islands.
Madhouse Fog
Author: Sean Carswell
Publisher: Manic D Press
ISBN: 1933149760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In this metaphysical thriller, a thirty-something punk rocker fleeing a troubled marriage is hired for a grant writing job at a southern California psychiatric hospital. When he gets tangled up in a neuropsychiatrist's mysterious research and is subsequently targeted by a nefarious advertising executive, the situation spins dangerously out of control. Sean Carswell is the author of four books. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Thrasher and The Southeast Review. He co-founded Razorcake magazine and Gorsky Press. He currently lives in Ventura, California, and is a professor of American literature at California State University Channel Islands.
Publisher: Manic D Press
ISBN: 1933149760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In this metaphysical thriller, a thirty-something punk rocker fleeing a troubled marriage is hired for a grant writing job at a southern California psychiatric hospital. When he gets tangled up in a neuropsychiatrist's mysterious research and is subsequently targeted by a nefarious advertising executive, the situation spins dangerously out of control. Sean Carswell is the author of four books. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Thrasher and The Southeast Review. He co-founded Razorcake magazine and Gorsky Press. He currently lives in Ventura, California, and is a professor of American literature at California State University Channel Islands.
Dead Extra
Author: Sean Carswell
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
ISBN: 1945551488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The early forties have been a tough time for Jack Chesley. His plane was shot down over Germany and he spent two years in a brutal POW camp. During that time, his wife fell in the tub and died. Prior to her death, the early forties were even tougher for Jack’s wife, Wilma. After Jack was mistakenly presumed dead, she went on a bender that ended with her wrongful commitment to the Camarillo State Psychiatric Hospital. While there, she took up with an alcoholic socialite, a junkie pianist, and a shady hospital employee who promised her a way out. Only that way out set her on the path to the end of her road. Now Jack’s back in Los Angeles. His sister-in-law and Wilma’s twin, Gertie, hunts him down to tell him Wilma’s death was no accident: she was murdered. Gertie’s first efforts to find the truth earned her a bullet to the collarbone. But that doesn’t mean Gertie is ready to give up. She knows the right places to look and the right people to ask. She needs Jack, who was a cop for a short time before the war, to stick his nose into these places and ask these questions so that, together, they can figure out who killed Wilma, and why. Dead Extra follows the parallel storylines of Wilma in the months before her murder in 1944 and Jack and Gertie’s search for the killer in 1946. Their adventures carry them through Hollywood’s second-tier studios, nearby psychiatric hospitals, Pasadena mansions, downtown jazz clubs, and one seriously sleazy motor court in Oxnard. Taking its cues from early noir masters like James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler as well as contemporary neo-noir writers like Walter Mosley and Megan Abbott, Dead Extra explores new shadows on the seedy side of midcentury Southern California.
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
ISBN: 1945551488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The early forties have been a tough time for Jack Chesley. His plane was shot down over Germany and he spent two years in a brutal POW camp. During that time, his wife fell in the tub and died. Prior to her death, the early forties were even tougher for Jack’s wife, Wilma. After Jack was mistakenly presumed dead, she went on a bender that ended with her wrongful commitment to the Camarillo State Psychiatric Hospital. While there, she took up with an alcoholic socialite, a junkie pianist, and a shady hospital employee who promised her a way out. Only that way out set her on the path to the end of her road. Now Jack’s back in Los Angeles. His sister-in-law and Wilma’s twin, Gertie, hunts him down to tell him Wilma’s death was no accident: she was murdered. Gertie’s first efforts to find the truth earned her a bullet to the collarbone. But that doesn’t mean Gertie is ready to give up. She knows the right places to look and the right people to ask. She needs Jack, who was a cop for a short time before the war, to stick his nose into these places and ask these questions so that, together, they can figure out who killed Wilma, and why. Dead Extra follows the parallel storylines of Wilma in the months before her murder in 1944 and Jack and Gertie’s search for the killer in 1946. Their adventures carry them through Hollywood’s second-tier studios, nearby psychiatric hospitals, Pasadena mansions, downtown jazz clubs, and one seriously sleazy motor court in Oxnard. Taking its cues from early noir masters like James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler as well as contemporary neo-noir writers like Walter Mosley and Megan Abbott, Dead Extra explores new shadows on the seedy side of midcentury Southern California.
Original Plays
Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Out of the Madhouse
Author: Christopher Golden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534426701
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
KNOCKIN' ON EVIL'S DOOR Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it's more than one Slayer can handle -- especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space. Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, holding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to limbo's "ghost roads," and all of which may bring her face-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth -- forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534426701
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
KNOCKIN' ON EVIL'S DOOR Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it's more than one Slayer can handle -- especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space. Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, holding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to limbo's "ghost roads," and all of which may bring her face-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth -- forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.
Armed Madhouse
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
‘Razor sharp research ... shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots’ Metro, Books of the Year ‘Bill Hicks with a press pass’ The List Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world ... America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it’s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It’s not pretty – but it’s all true ... ‘Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive – and more importantly, readable – voice of the left’ Observer ‘A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden’s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon’ Big Issue ‘Very funny ... For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what’s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte’ Guardian
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
‘Razor sharp research ... shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots’ Metro, Books of the Year ‘Bill Hicks with a press pass’ The List Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world ... America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it’s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It’s not pretty – but it’s all true ... ‘Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive – and more importantly, readable – voice of the left’ Observer ‘A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden’s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon’ Big Issue ‘Very funny ... For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what’s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte’ Guardian
Original Plays by W. S. Gilbert
Author: W. S. Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
I Live in a Mad House
Author: Kaye Umansky
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153351
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a very wet Rottweiler. But in this comedy, who will have the last laugh?
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153351
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a very wet Rottweiler. But in this comedy, who will have the last laugh?
The Art of Practice
Author: Dennis Barone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Poetry. In THE ART OF PRACTICE, the poem is viewed as primary, not 'prior to or about experience, ' but itself experience... The editors make clear that neither expression, description, nor voice is the point of this poetry: 'it is the embodiment of the mind discovering' -- Jackson Mac Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Poetry. In THE ART OF PRACTICE, the poem is viewed as primary, not 'prior to or about experience, ' but itself experience... The editors make clear that neither expression, description, nor voice is the point of this poetry: 'it is the embodiment of the mind discovering' -- Jackson Mac Low
Original Plays: Comedy and tragedy. Gofferty's fairy. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Patience; or, Bunthorne's bride. Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant. The mikado; or, The town of Titipu. Ruddigore; or, The witch's curse. The yeomen of the guard; or, The merryman and his maid. The gondoliers; or, The king of Barataria. The mountebanks. Utopia, limited; or, The flowers of progress
Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Sugar Borders
Author: William Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In THE SUGAR BORDERS, William Fuller creates a flat space of "middles" which is everywhere, "the cave of all." The viewer is up so close seeing oneself that one's / its "wet muscles repose there." As if one hallucinates oneself having a dream, one sees oneself who's any viewer being the "natural world" where "we" fly and "pigeons sit down to their meal, without bodies." This writing puts pressure on its space to view realistically by its "flat/objective" approach with no view that proscribes or "understands": "The upper part of the world lives on an island, fishing in flames." "Words fall into place, a progressive past tense charting action from its sometimes ominous further reaches to the more immediate almost-present, and where is the future in ritual observation? Does it cast a shadow, leave an echo? Love and the letter of love. But what is the nature of this space between dream, wind, dinner, color and the alphabet? It's our birthday everyday, and "We each get an earth to eat..." in the telescopic syntax of these Sugar Borders. Sugar borders terror where the iridescent dust of verse begins to shake a darker spell out of the bundled predicates. You want to keep opening this book, and opening it." -- Norma Cole "...imagery as perverse and baffling as that constructed in dreams, echoed in folktales and children's rhymes, circulated as magic and superstition... These are poems which create the conditions for an experience of "negative capability." Yes. Small and terrific reversals and contradictions, untenanted space looming through the rifts of images. "I see your bones, your bones see me.""--Beverly Dahlen "If you need to read, take a look at this book." -- Tom Raworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In THE SUGAR BORDERS, William Fuller creates a flat space of "middles" which is everywhere, "the cave of all." The viewer is up so close seeing oneself that one's / its "wet muscles repose there." As if one hallucinates oneself having a dream, one sees oneself who's any viewer being the "natural world" where "we" fly and "pigeons sit down to their meal, without bodies." This writing puts pressure on its space to view realistically by its "flat/objective" approach with no view that proscribes or "understands": "The upper part of the world lives on an island, fishing in flames." "Words fall into place, a progressive past tense charting action from its sometimes ominous further reaches to the more immediate almost-present, and where is the future in ritual observation? Does it cast a shadow, leave an echo? Love and the letter of love. But what is the nature of this space between dream, wind, dinner, color and the alphabet? It's our birthday everyday, and "We each get an earth to eat..." in the telescopic syntax of these Sugar Borders. Sugar borders terror where the iridescent dust of verse begins to shake a darker spell out of the bundled predicates. You want to keep opening this book, and opening it." -- Norma Cole "...imagery as perverse and baffling as that constructed in dreams, echoed in folktales and children's rhymes, circulated as magic and superstition... These are poems which create the conditions for an experience of "negative capability." Yes. Small and terrific reversals and contradictions, untenanted space looming through the rifts of images. "I see your bones, your bones see me.""--Beverly Dahlen "If you need to read, take a look at this book." -- Tom Raworth