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| ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, 2ND EDITION : Conversations in a Time of Terror [Jee Kim (ed)] Other collections about September 11 will be stacked with the same older white males. 'Another World is Possible' begins with personal stories from September 11th. It follows with -- Why did this happen? -- analysis of US foreign policy in the Middle East, and the backlash against Arab-Americans and freedoms at home. And -- Where do we go from here? -- on a personal level, a spiritual level, and in terms of foreign policy. { 160pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; PB, £7.99, 0966646967:9780966646962 , Garrett County Press(Subway & Elevated Press) } |
| BEST OF TEMP SLAVE! [Jeff Kelly] This is a screaming artillery of work-related stories harvested from the internationally famous temp worker zine, Temp Slave! This book is a mighty megaphone for the thousands who slave in offices where self-worth and job security are forever defined by the word temporary. { 176pp, 155x230mm, January 1997; PB, £6.99, 1891053426:9781891053429 , Garrett County Press } |
| BIG WHEEL AT THE CRACKER FACTORY [Mickey Hess] "Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory" is about choosing what you want to be when you grow up, and finding out you still have to wait tables on the weekends. The story follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader. With college enrolment and tuition costs at record highs, universities are staffing their courses with part-time instructors who commute between different schools to make a living. Big Wheel follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader. The jobs begin out of financial necessity, but become more of a diversion from a teaching career that Hess fears he is starting to take far more seriously than this employers are taking him. REVIEW: "Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is an absolute winner, exploring the difficulties and trials of finding a job, facing a lifetime of work, and searching for meaning somewhere within that work. Mickey Hess writes with truthful insights and rip-roaring hilarity. The fact that it is non-fiction only makes the book that much more important and engaging." -- Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned "Mickey Hess has taken his experiences as a struggling writing instructor and made them into a wry, picaresque novel. Thoroughly humorous." -- Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Underground publishing advocate Mickey Hess uses deadpan humour and pungent observations to describe the price he pays for pursuing a passion -- teach college students how to write." -- Chicago Reader, which awarded Big Wheel "Critics Choice" "Mickey Hess is a passionate, funny man who loves to teach writing to his students, encouraging creativity with sometimes very unconventional ideas (playing basketball with baby doll heads comes to mind)." -- Christopher Taylor, Boxcar Books "Mickey Hess' story of a year in the life of an English instructor brings to mind Whitman's celebration of himself as an observer and mirror image of life's parade in "Song of Myself". He takes on varied odd jobs -- ice cream man; improv comedian; volunteer at a Billy Graham Crusade Revival -- for both the money and what he finds to be a requirement of teaching: experience." -- Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labour "Mickey Hess makes you want to move to Kentucky and hang out and write poetry for the rest of your life." -- David Amram, author of Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac { 228pp, 140x210mm, November 2008; PB, £9.50, 1891053078:9781891053078 , Garrett County Press } |
| COMMON FOLK ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL [Common Folk] Constructed of heavy, acid-free, recycled writing paper, the 'Common Folk Illustrated Journal' is the perfect portable book for notes, phone numbers, sketches and ideas. Brooklyn graffiti collective Common Folk carefully illustrated the interior, which alternates 50 contemporary photographs with blank pages and crosshair guidelines (for precise sketching). { 200pp, 140x175mm, November 2007; PB, £9.50, 1891053051:9781891053054 , Garrett County Press } |
| EVEN A DAUGHTER IS BETTER THAN NOTHING [Mykel Board] Board presents a brilliant and wicked trip into the depths of Outer Mongolia. Incisive and outrageous, Board recounts his year teaching English at the National University in Ulaanbaatar. Join Board on his twisting journey through Mongolian drinking, heavy metal, wrestling and problematic plumbing as he meets some of the kindest, most resilient individuals on earth. { 348pp, 150x205mm, August 2005; PB, £9.99, 1891053000:9781891053009 , Garrett County Press } |
| FOR HERE OR TO GO : Life in the Service Industry [Leah Ryan (ed)] A strong brew of resentment and righteous indignation marks this collection of stories, interviews, cartoons and personal essays by service workers. As one waitress declares, "if I died and went to Dante's hell, I would spend eternity as a waitress serving white men in business suits." Ryan, Punk Planet fiction editor and a former kitchen worker, draws readers' attention to the largely overlooked professional lives of service sector employees by encouraging cab drivers, coffee jockeys and even strippers to share the highs and lows of their careers. In doing so, many rail against the industry-wide expectation of unobtrusive conduct and polite deference. While the customers they serve are often the source of the job's indignities and challenges, service workers reserve a particularly vehement hatred for the ambiguously defined but decidedly evil 'management', the self-important authority figures who, they say, force busboys to struggle through long shifts while faint with hunger and take advantage of job-hungry employees by paying them appallingly insufficient wages. But some of these creative and charismatic people who share their service industry experiences enjoy their jobs and even perceive a noble purpose in the service they provide, such as a coffee shop manager who believes independently owned coffee houses like his are a 'neutral zone' where "people can be real." Whether those who reveal their experiences in this candid and insightful collection find their jobs unbearable or gratifying, Ryan seems to hope that readers will glean wisdom from -- and feel empathy for -- these voices from behind the scenes. { 195pp, 140x215mm, February 2006; PB, £10.99, 1891053442:9781891053443 , Garrett County Press } |
| FROM CAMPUS TO COMBAT : A College Boy Becomes a WWII Army Flier [James Alter] Jim Alter was a sophomore in college when Japan attacked the United States. He enlisted, and after an Army programme that condensed years of officer training into a few frantic months, was flying over Europe, dodging German gunners in a B-24. Alter proudly recounts the achievements of his heroic generation as he details this defining chapter of his early life. His memoir focuses on the business of turning citizens into soldiers, and in so doing highlights the tremendous benefits of asking all citizens to sacrifice for the war effort. His experiences and descriptions stand as a sharp contrast to the current professional, outsourced war now being waged in the Middle East. { 236pp, 140x175mm, November 2006; PB, £9.99, 1891053817:9781891053818 , Garrett County Press } |
| GEORGE W BUSH COLORING BOOK [Illustrated by Karen Ocker] Drawing from the imaginative quotes President Bush has uttered over the years, the 'George W. Bush Coloring Book' illustrates Bush's very own words in the form of a colouring book. Illustrator Karen Ocker lends her visually distinct style to on-the-record quotes such as "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity and incumbency," and "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." The colouring book includes an essay on Bush by Joley Wood. Wood has written on numerous Irish writers, including essays on James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats, and a preface for Shaw's Saint Joan (Penguin). { 24pp, 215x280mm, February 2006; PB, £5.99, 1891053949:9781891053948 , Garrett County Press } |
| GUINEA PIG ZERO : An Anthology of the Journal For Human Research Subjects [Robert Helms (ed)] This book examines the medical human research industry from the point of view of the researched. Written by human test research subjects (also known as 'guinea pigs'), the book includes stories about flipping out on Prozac, sleep deprivation and gene therapy. Besides rating test clinics and providing practical advice to fellow human guinea pigs, Helms investigates the history of human test research and provides some illuminating commentary on the goals and motives behind the biomedical enterprise. { 245pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; PB, £9.99, 1891053841:9781891053849 , Garrett County Press } |
| GYNOMITE : Fearless, Feminist Porn [Liz Belile (ed)] From lesbians writing gay male sex to straight chicks writing as horny men, this collection turns stereotypes on their heads. From the most subtle erotic gesture to the most extreme expressions of forbidden rage, the authors spill their inner sluts butt zits, saggy tits, wiry nipple hair, jellyroll bellies, knife fetishes, and all. Taste the blood and the bliss. { 275pp, 155x230mm, March 2006; PB, £9.99, 0966646924:9780966646924 , Garrett County Press (New Mouth from the Dirty South) } |
| IVAN PETROV : Russia Through a Shot Glass [C S Walton] Ivan Petrov grew up in a provincial Russian town in the middle years of this century. It made no difference which side of the barbed wire you lived on: prisoners in camps, collective farmers, factory workers -- one man's life was as bleak as another's. Some people accepted things as they were and tried to carve out careers for themselves as informers or bureaucrats; others sought a way out. Ivan Petrov chose to become a drunk. Not an ordinary drunk. But a vagabond and a beggar who became intimate with forests, garbage dumps and railway stations all over Russia. C S Walton met Ivan Petrov in a city in West in 1996. Over the course of two years, he told Walton is life story. { 241pp, 140x215mm, February 2006; PB, £7.99, 1891053833:9781891053832 , Garrett County Press } |
| LEANING WITH INTENT TO FALL : A Memoir [Ethan Clark] This is the first literary book to emerge from bike-punk subculture. Author Ethan Clark -- who has passed the time riding bikes, drinking too much, getting chased by dogs, living in abandoned buildings, parading in unsanctioned street festivals and breaking into historical monuments -- celebrates this culture, expressed in "moments of perfect, beautiful chaos". REVIEW: "Clark reminds me there's a brave new generation out there -- young people who are wise enough to turn their backs on prejudice, materialism and other deadly aspects of our culture; who still think it's important to see the world before settling into the life they've been told will make them happy." -- LA Times, December 2nd, 2007. { 190pp, 140x180mm, November 2007; PB, £9.99, 1891053043:9781891053047 , Garrett County Press } |
| LETTERS FROM NEW ORLEANS [Rob Walker] Rob Walker, columnist for The New York Times Magazine, energises the lately enervated worlds of memoir and travelogue with his book-length debut, 'Letters From New Orleans', a reconnaissance of a city obsessed with the forensic details of denial. Walker traded his New York life, including a decent media job, back in January of 2000. He and his girlfriend set up shop in New Orleans and soon after, Walker began sending, via email, 'The Letter From New Orleans' to interested parties. All fourteen pieces, along with additional material and photo spectra, are included in the book. Subjects covered include: celebratory gunfire, rich people, Michelle Shocked, the riddle of race relations today, robots, fine dining, drunkenness, urban decay, debutantes, the nature of identity, Gennifer Flowers, the song 'St James Infirmary', and mortality. { 226pp, 140x180mm, June 2005; PB, £8.99, 1891053019:9781891053016 , Garrett County Press } |
| LITTLE TENEMENT ON THE VOLGA [C S Walton] An engaging and amusing account by an English woman of life in post-Soviet Russia which shows how little has changed for this nation in transition. Walton lived in a cramped communal apartment in the provincial town of Samara. She conveys the day-to-day life of endless queues for the toilet, to buy scarce food in the miserable stores, to report crimes. She also recounts the drunkenness of the men, the docility of the women, the continued clout of those formerly well placed in the Communist Party, and the hustling and striving of would-be entrepreneurs in a country struggling toward capitalism. As an Englishwoman, Walton has many of the privileges of foreigners -- higher income and better service -- but she also is subjected to exploitation and suspicion. Still, she is befriended by a host of characters, from a hustler to a fortune teller, who help her penetrate the life of average Russians and get an intimate look at life in a nation in transition. { 147pp, 140x215mm, February 2006; PB, £8.99, 1891053787:9781891053788 , Garrett County Press } |
| LIVING LOST : Why We’re All Stuck on the Island [Joley Wood] Miracles, viruses, plane crashes and acts of terror perpetrated by a group of 'Others'. This is the perplexing and radical world created by J J Abrams in his hit television show, 'LOST'. Joley Wood, with wit and insight, explores the show’s quirky details, and argues for an idea as weird as the show itself: That we’re all stuck on the island. { 266pp, 140x180mm, January 2007; PB, £9.99, 1891053027:9781891053023 , Garrett County Press } |
| PAT ROBERSTON & FRIENDS COLORING BOOK [Illustrated by Kevin Stone] Pat Robertson is one of the most influential conservative televangelists in the world. 'The Pat Robertson & Friends Coloring Book' transforms some of his most outrageous public pronouncements on the weather, politics, national defence and weight-lifting into graceful, easy-to-colour illustrations. The book includes cameos from many of Robertson’s conservative allies and a 'Table of Apocalyptic Predictions That Did Not Come True'. { 24pp, 215x280mm, November 2006; PB, £6.99, 1891053957:9781891053955 , Garrett County Press } |
| TALES OF A PUNK ROCK NOTHING [Abram Shalom Himelstein & Jamie Schweser] The classic underground novel about a Jewish kid from Tennessee, who moves to DC and hangs out with militant vegetarians, manifesto-writing shoplifters, and strippers who write feminist theory. The story is told through journals, letters and zines. Its got everything you could want out of a novel a chase scene, a sex scene, plus angst-ridden critiques of American society. { 162pp, 140x215mm, August 2000; PB, £6.99, 0966646908:9780966646900 , Garrett County Press (New Mouth from the Dirty South) } |
| TERRIBLE THUNDER, 2ND EDITION : The Story of the New Orleans Sniper [Peter Hernon] On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972 Mark James Essex began one of the most violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen that any American city had ever seen. It was yet another tragic journey down the road of race hatred, and before it ended one week later, hundreds of heavily armed police and a Marine Corps assault helicopter would be called to a burning downtown hotel to battle phantom gunmen who refused to surrender or to be killed. { 284pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; PB, £11.50, 1891053485:9781891053481 , Garrett County Press } |
| VOICE OF LENINGRAD [C S Walton] C S Walton, award-winning author, brings to life the epic story of the siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days, leaving nearly a million and a half citizens dead. { 167pp, 140x215mm, February 2006; PB, £9.99, 1891053825:9781891053825 , Garrett County Press } |
| WELCOME TO THE BETHLEHEM STAR HOTEL : An Account of Life in Palestine with Descriptions of People, Places & Incidents [Ben Granby] Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 2002. His motivation? To throw himself headlong into other people's problems. { 220pp, 140x180mm, December 2005; PB, £8.99, 1891053515:9781891053511 , Garrett County Press } |
| WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE? : The 100 T-Shirt Project [Abraham Shalom Himelstein] Abram Shalom Himelstein went all over New Orleans asking people what they think all day but don't say out loud. They wrote their answers on t-shirts and he took pictures of them wearing the shirts. { 128pp, 175x140mm, February 2006; PB, £7.99, 1891053981:9781891053986 , Garrett County Press } |