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Postmodernism | Fiction

Jun.26.2012
    Independent filmmaker, Blasket McManus has struggled his entire life to make small, personal films.  But in a culture obsessed with blockbuster superheroes and vampire horror flicks, Hollywood considers Blasket irrelevant.  To show he still matters, Blasket creates his most...
American Monsters by Sezin Koehler, illustrated by Rose Deniz
Sep.15.2011
"An important work of post-modern feminist horror, American Monsters is a poignant, angry volume about predation, the corruption of the rave scene, and empowerment through trauma-related super-abilities. The first section of American Monsters is The Succubi Sideshow. This is a series of darkly...
Karma by Lisa Albinger
Nov.19.2010
Twenty pages of political poetry by Anthony Frame, plus an introduction in verse by Jim Daniels. Includes poems previously published in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Perigee, Diverse Voices Quarterly and other literary journals.
"Beautiful Soon Enough"
Sep.02.2009
Margo Berdeshevsky's Beautiful Soon Enough is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives--worldly, sexual, obsessive--of twenty-three arresting women. These are snapshots and collages: stories of women on the outside, looking in; of women content to end their affairs; of young women...
Book Cover, Photo by the Author
Jan.17.2009
This stridently interdisciplinary study builds on recent postmodern advances in theatre, film, and media studies - in areas of identity, gender, and narrative - to argue for a realignment of cinema's own dissembling urban ironist, Alfred Hitchcock, within the Jacobean dramaturgical lineage. In...
Book Cover, designed by the Author
Jan.17.2009
This study focuses on thirteen Hollywood films that, from the 1970s to the 1990s, assumed to represent the working practices of U.S. corporate broadcast media. The book argues that since such corporations position themselves as individuals before the law, so their film and news texts are carefully...
Bob the Angry Flower: Dog Killer
Sep.20.2008
It's a bunch of cartoons.
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
May.14.2008
A wry and haunting first novel from a fresh Iranian-American writer, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory and inheritance in making peace with our worlds. Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully aware that he is different—with an...
LOST IN HINDSIGHT  - C.S. Leaf (2008, Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee)
Apr.26.2008
"C. S. Leaf's Lost In Hindsight is a lyrical dance to voice both necessary and new, old and resounding. Wondering. Wandering. Powerfully buoyant and brooding. His poetry is rich with incantation." -GALE P. JACKSON, POET, WRITER & CULTURAL HISTORIAN The collection includes...