A dark-humor, true-crime memoir, Almost Rapist is a story told against the backdrop of the Great Recession, when Jöyce, a lapsed cult member and
recent NYU acting school graduate, lands a Craigslist job assisting an Oscar-winning composer, filmmaker, and jingle writer on the
eve of what she finds out is his Supreme Court rape trial following a near-deadly stroke.
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a luxury velour binding handsewn with split-board attachments for $38 or a samizdat velour binding also hand-bound using archival staples with sawn-in hemp cords for $28. Both are dressed in sparkly pink dust jacket backed with aluminum foil and protected with a
jacket made out of folded wax paper.
COMING SOON. The Upward Tree, a chapbook from Chavisa Woods, is a collection of poetry about rape and murder and the devastation left behind. These poems carry the weight of trauma in its many forms—generational, intimate, and witnessed—capturing moments of unbearable violence and fleeting tenderness. Through elegiac language and stark imagery, Woods speaks of unbearable loss and love, revealing how the songs we sing to the dead, made in the darkness of what should have broken us, sometimes become lullabies for the living.
A grimoire and book of poetry by witch Damon Stang, a practictioner of the tarot who has studied and practiced the art of reading and seeing for over 20 years. The piece chronicles his love of trees, stemming from his childhood in rural South Africa and following his life all the way to present day Brooklyn. Taking place on the eve of Imbolc.
In Bad Fly, Harry Finkelstein tells the story of a slippery slope that starts with the uprooting the ice plant on the California coast and progresses to the smash-on-site campaigns targeting spotted lanternflies. Eventually, it progresses to something even more horrifying. The book is illustrated on the front and back cover, and with an insert of six beautiful photographs, by photographer Katherine Finkelstein.
“The Clicking, the Creaking, and the Tap” is story of dissociation, featuring a protagonist who finds himself living with sociopathic nightlife personalities and has to retreat into the privacy of his own room. There, he meets the ghost of Jack Bell, a recently deceased former-inhabitant of the abode who decides that these roommates are unacceptable as people and sets about casting spells to bring about the end of his predicament.
A meditation on loss and the search for meaning in beauty and the sea on which we all float, Transcriptions is a meditation on art by photographer Katherine Finkelstein
Lumpy Log by Clara Lip is a tete-beche binding in painted paper.
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