Bøger af Zack Kopp

Overgrown is the latest chapter of the authors fantastic biography, in which he navigates the shifting sands of the tumultuous U.S. Presidential Election of 2016 as a freelance journalist and ghost writer advocating no singular truth. Zetetic.

Poetry and brief prose by a young man who eats fire, sets his head on fire and speaks fire. Charles Bukowski crossed with Gregory Corso crossed with Lewis Carroll crossed with Iggy Pop.

A collection of spontaneous prose full of clever jokes and mostly even handed evolutionary cues, self deprecation and the like.

Reality Stars is a dark joke about the common ground shared by the verbage of market research surveys and most, if not all, human belief systems, including religion, law enforcement and the government. It's a satire of dogmatic thought and the human need for proof with religion politics and popular culture as the players. As such, it has the potential to offend, but never loses sight of the nuts and bolts of humorous presentation, for all its metaphysical conjecture and taboo subject matter. Lifelong outsider Howard Plumber leaves his job at Zylon Research in Denver after an apparently psychic respondent to one of his nightly survey calls commands him to, "Write the novel!" Aspiring writer Howard sees this as a dare from God and accepts the challenge. He convinces himself that "God" is behind all wars in human history-since acts of war are generally caused or attended by sincerely-felt religious beliefs, particularly evident in the ongoing Christian-Muslim-Jewish endless three way war. On the Greyhound bus out of Denver, he conceives of a book called The War on God, making war on everything in a well-intentioned if reactionary way, as a sort of desperate peace-protest, beginning a series of false starts in this cross-country adventure.

Just then, Pedro emerged from the kitchen wiping his hands on his apron and said cheerfully, "Well boys, I'm closin' up early tonight. Gotta date with Loo Loo when she gets back from teachin' her class." Loo Loo was Pedro's girlfriend, the new dance teacher in town, a beehive hairdo with glasses on top of a pair of soft wax legs. Skin was planning to break into her house next.

Where's Kopp is a compilation of freelance citizen journalism, interviews, reviews and commentary by Zack Kopp, including interviews with Paul Krassner, Rennie Sparks, Dan Fante and Tessa B. Dick

Modern life is a problem contest and deadbeat freelance writer Al Lamp's adventure in this book looks at this essential argument. Social media connects him to all his friends throughout the bug scare and lockdown. A website called The Rotten Edge pays to host his interviews with rock stars and writers. Dating sites take the place of bars and parties, for the most part. A lost book he read years ago and forgot the name of has predicted many recent global events except the fake alien war that's probably coming next. Are the actions of his obnoxious upstairs neighbors in a building without insulation in southeast Denver analogous to Al's place at the bottom of society's problem contest as a creative artist? When that lost book comes true again in the form of race riots all over the country, Al is forced to confront the racial symbols placed in him by decades of media brainwashing, transcending his tormented life in the basement and ascending finally to a new cheap apartment up the street just before the 2020 election results are called. What will happen next? PULL TAB TO OPEN.