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HERE LIES MEMORY explores the place of memory in living, daily, scarred and sacred lives. Two Pittsburgh families struggle to survive trauma and love. A man wills himself to go blind, not to forget, but to remember in new ways. Another man drinks beer after beer until he can no longer drink away what he must face directly. This novel explores what language and photographs do to memory, desire, and love, and what gentrification is doing to the souls of families and neighborhoods.

"Witty and ingenious comics from the exceptionally-talented writer, musician, performer, ventriloquist, and cartoonist Doug Skinner. It's exciting to finally have these little-seen strips available in one beautiful book. You may be reminded of Voltaire or Ernie Bushmiller while reading these meticulously drawn stories featuring utterly hapless characters, but Mr. Skinner has a style all his own." -R. Sikoryak "Mr. Skinner knows many terrible, terrible secrets about us. We are once again fortunate that he chooses to share them so deftly and so altruistically."-Mark Newgarden What is the truth behind the "Unknown Adjective"? Will Walter and Benny find the elusive batworm? What really goes on out in "Cowboy Country"? And can Dr. Docket find a cure for all that ails Mr. Pert? You'll discover the answers to these and other burning questions in this profusely illustrated collection of comics and picture stories from the brilliant (albeit peculiar) mind of Doug Skinner. Take a look inside and see for yourself. Your daily dilemmas will soon seem inconsequential, and the laughter you hear may turn out to be your own.

"Buenas Noches, Little Roaches," "Breeders Can't Be Choosers," "My Pal Satan," and the hits just keep on coming - 46 of Doug Skinner's most memorable songs in one handsome, large format paperback. This compilation of hand-crafted sheet music makes the perfect accompaniment to every nuclear family gathering. Huddle round the piano and rev up those vocal cords! "Chillingly zany" -THE NEW YORK TIMES "Deceptively dark and satirical" -COVER "Very witty and well-written jeux des mots" -WOODSTOCK TIMES "Scathingly witty... lullabies etched in acid" -METRO MAGAZINE "Clever and delightfully barbed" -PAPER

A major collection of short fiction by a master of literary mischief. These fifteen tales are erotic, poetic, and, often, hilarious. "The title story of Arias-Misson's THE MAN WHO WALKED ON AIR is emblematic of the fiction collection. Ruminative, cultivated, formally venturesome, smoothly (but not slickly) written, and erotic-a nuanced eroticism that takes deliciously improbable turns. A daring collection in its way, yet always engaging." --Harold Jaffe "Augustus, Alain Arias-Misson's alter ego in the book, levitates when he has an erection. Arias-Misson levitates when he writes. Take the hand he offers you. He will lead you above the coarseness and banality of much of contemporary writing to a delightfully innocent world of erotic fantasies." --Yuriy Tarnawsky

Imagined interviews with 15 world-famous artists: Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, Madge Gill, Balthus, Béla Lugosi, Agatha Christie and-yes-even Anonymous. Carla M. Wilson cleverly penetrates the facade of celebrity and brings us closer to the human being behind the brand. This quirky experimental work mixes fact & fiction and will amuse, educate, demystify, and delight. "By way of Wilson's splendid imagination, curious encounters guaranteed." -Edith Doove "In IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS Carla Wilson performs with great aplomb the impossibly perilous feat of the imagined interview. She has selected some of the most difficult interview subjects possible (artists!), and imagines how meetings between an interviewer who has done her research and really wants to engage these oddballs in conversation might play out. The results are delightful, perhaps even more for the agonies the interviewer has to endure than for the eccentricities of the artists themselves. Pity the poor interviewer, especially since the voices in this book are so well heard that one can actually imagine these troublesome characters to be in the room, making life for the interviewer uncomfortably difficult. What a sublime achievement!" -Eckhard Gerdes