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Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, a novel by John Biscello

Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale.

A novel by John Biscello

To be published 10 May 2012

eBook version ISBN 9781937487805

Existential noir with a pop-cultural slant, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale chronicles the urban exploits of wanna-be sleuth and slapstick film buff, Salvatore Massimo Lunezzi.  Prompted by an enigmatic phone call from a writer-friend claiming to be dead, Lunezzi launches an investigation that leads him to Ghostwriters, Inc., a company selling inspiration to struggling writers through the medium of “ghosting.” From Buster Keaton to Arthur Rimbaud; a boozy dwarf to a mysterious femme fatale; hip hop to the madness of art; Lunezzi is drawn deeper and deeper into a Coney Island of the soul where fiction and reality converge.

The Paintings of Erin Currier

The Paintings of Erin Currier

Paperback Version ISBN 978-1-937487-63-8

eBook Version ISBN 978-1-937487-78-2

I have come to view Erin’s work in the context of Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History. Paraphrasing Benjamin, the angel’s face is turned toward the past. Where we see events unfolding, she sees a single catastrophe which keeps piling up wreckage in front of her feet.  She would like to awaken the dead, and make whole what has been destroyed. But a storm that is blowing in from Paradise gets caught in her wings with such a force that the angel can no longer close them as she is propelled into the future to which her back is turned. The pile of debris before her grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. But as Erin’s Angel of History is blown backwards into the future, she witnesses the refuse of the ages piling up both as a catastrophe and as an opportunity to educate humanity, and like an political alchemist she makes art out of it; she enfleshes dignity and hope with this refuse, a refuse that, at times, appears in Erin’s hands to have more life-enhancing power than the pulsations of living flesh.

    Professor Peter McLaren

Gazette, by Anthony Hassett

Gazette, by Anthony Hassett

eBook ISBN 978-1-937487-61-4

Paperback ISBN 978-1-937487-62-1

The accordion style pages of Anthony Hassett’s travel albums are hand-drawn, colored, and glazed works of art -- at once visual poems and illustrated critiques: letters of love and condemnation culled from a constant abysmal penitence. Hassett has traveled, lived, written and drawn his poems and images in forty countries, occasionally stopping to exhibit his books in cities like Berlin, Buenos Aires and New York. A Naropa Institute dropout, Hassett has studied with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, whose refined and incomprehensible insults continue to inspire his own dream to produce his own degree of oblivion, or minor literature, or both. When in the United States, he resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.