Bulletin & Resources

Super cool. Super creepy. Best book this year! Magic realism bubbles up from turn-of-the century New Orleans. A startling novel of dark vision and power, The Sound of Building Coffins is Louis Maistros' debut novel. A former forklift operator, he owns a jazz record/Voodoo botanica shop in the French Quarter.

Yes, Virginia, there is a beer fairy! Tom Robbins, our guru of all elixirs, intoxicates us with B Is for Beer. A children’s book for grown-ups…A grown–up book for children. Dedicated to his bat–earred dog Blini, who is a teetotaler. Cheers!

A sexy incandescent 19th-century Bohemian must-read! My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier, translated by Richard Holmes.
Charles Baudelaire, dedicated his infamous, Les Fleurs du Mal, to Theophile Gautier, calling him a perfect magician… The bizarre and wonderful stories in My Fantoms with their own perfect magic of erotic radiance, may throw some light—perhaps a blue, phosphorescent moonlight—on the Gautier magic.

What Laren Stover’s writing now: A monograph called My Martian Father, and a fictionalized memoir about a crystal–meth pyromaniac. If you'd like to read some of it, check out an excerpt of Nick's Inferno: (The 27 Notebooks of Nick Dante) at Guernica Magazine.

Read Laren Stover’s New York diaries in The New York Observer.

What Paul Himmelein’s writing now: The Memoirs and Prison Diaries of Horace W. Redpole, an historical novel set in the late eighteenth century, which uses only vocabulary presented in Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and Francis Grose’s Dictionary of Slang, The Vulgar Tongue (1785). Read an excerpt at Guernica Magazine.

Welcome to the Fop House! Read Paul Himmelein's dandiesque essay for Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, Two Centuries Too Late.

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