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U.L.A. Press Novels! Great Fun fo r Hard Time s!
The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus
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“Laugh out loud!” —ZineWorld
•Author: Dr. Wred Fright, •$14, •210 pp, •ISBN: 1892590476, •Item#PFE. Description: Originally published in a series of 7 very popular zeen issues, Emus is a hilarious story of semi-students who share a house in a college town, are in a garage rock band, and can barely keep the beer-bong full. Unlike other rock and roll novels—which tell the story of a band rising to stardom—this is the story of a local band that never makes it big but rocks on anyway. Written in rotating points of view from each housemate/bandmember. (Dr. Fright was the first to get a PhD in zining!)
Fat on the Vine
“Stark, compelling, indelible!” —Babel
•Author: Crazy Carl Robinson, •$15, •250 pp, •ISBN 1892590484, •Item#FV. Description: What would you do if your name was “lil big sexy” and you were a 28-year-old virgin and the first girl you ever slept with informed you the next day that she was a “Nixon-lesbian”? What would you do if you lived in your parent’s basement and your genteel, Christian mother followed you around all day singing spirituals and telling you that you were “demon-possessed”? Appeals to readers who fancy themselves as underdogs. Specifically, appeals to people who are overweight, or who grew up in the sticks, and (to a degree) academics who are feeling displaced. Transgressive...with a heart of gold. Friendly to pets.
Security
“A genuine rarity. You couldn’t make it up!” —godisinthetv
•Author: James Nowlan, •$10, •150 pp, •ISBN 1892590441, •Item#SECY. Description: The novella Security is a completely new take on the ex-pat genre. Instead of going on a journey to an exotic land with new vistas we follow a brutal downward spiral. A strange and terrifying tale of an individual lost in chaos who goes from a fundamentalist religious community to homelessness in Los Angeles to a haunted loft on the Bowery to finish working as a bank guard in the housing projects that ring Paris. It’s the story of a victim...yet there’s surprising tenderness. The author has been a homeless wino himself. (The book is printed with raw typos, giving a desperate edginess.)
Wasted Angels •Author: Steve Kostecke, •$16, •250 pp, •ISBN: 1892590492, •Item#WA. Description: Candid coming-of-age, Detroit. From the back cover: “This is the space for a hyperbolic description. Hyperbole, it is hoped, should press the necessary button to make you buy. If you are the type that bases her/his consumption upon the glitter of blurbs, this would be the place to grasp and/or hook you. In particular if you’re into sex and death in suburban teen life, in the 1980s.”
Tales from the Texas Gang
“Really great.” —William Burroughs (true!)
•Author: Wild Bill Blackolive, •$19.95, •339 pp, •ISBN: 1892590387, •Item#TG. Description: Wild Bill’s writing is in the tradition of Melville...and Keroauc, Castenada and Abbey. Like Cormac McCarthy only more authentic...and funnier. Bill is a self-taught hill person who has been a boxer, bouncer and art model. This is a significant addition to American literature. It’s based on a real gang of the 1960s, but the novel is set in the late-1800s. It’s a cosmic outlaw novel...and more. A cult fave, it sold out in the ’70s in an underground edition of 2000 copies, selling from sidewalks in Austin, TX.
The Emeryville War •Author: Wild Bill Blackolive, •$12.95, •109 pp, •ISBN: 1892590395, •Item#EW. Description: If you liked A Confederacy of Dunces, you’ll really like this. Only, it’s real. An amazing memoir of life on the unhip fringe of Berkeley in the ’80s. A hilarious look at neighbors, cops and city officials from an even wilder observer: Wild Bill, who lives in a backyard in his broke-down car with his barbells and a litter of pitbulls.
Chicanery Row...a Panacea Fantasy •Author: Mack McElderry, •Backdoor Press (ULA ally), •$14, •259 pp, •no ISBN!, •Item#CR. Description: A quixotic play on Steinbeck’s Cannery Row transported to Florida’s Panhandle. In the ’60s, Steinbeck encouraged Jack Rudloe to become a writer and to build a marine biology lab in the fishing village of Panacea. The lab was modeled on Ricketts’ legendary Monterey lab. This novel chronicles the earlier lab and its still-active southern heir. It’s a timely reincarnation of West Coast heroes—a major work that passes the mantle. (Author lives in a barrack, without electricity.)
Bukowski Never Did This
“It makes me feel so good.” —Laurel Speer, writer
“A Year in the Life of a Writer & His Family” •Author: Jack Saunders, •LitVision Press (ULA member), •$15, •288 pp, •ISBN 097671535X, •Item#BUK. Description: Charles Bukowski is the ultimate underground success. One of his books was Shakespeare Never Did This. He wrote about going ten rounds with Hemingway. Here, underground legend Jack Saunders goes ten rounds with Bukowski. Writing over 250 books while working full-time and menial jobs, while taking on the literary establishment, and raising a family with two kids, isn’t easy. Say what?
EXTRA! ...ULA Zine, Trading Cards & Poster! “Slush Pile” Zine
List price $3. •Item#SP1-5. The ULA’s unique literary journal. All issues (#1-5) are available. 65-90 pages each. Each issue is full of literary scene news, underground short stories and rockin’ poems. #5 is the “Protest” issue, featuring a dozen protest actions and antics that gained the ULA global notoriety in its campaign for the renewal of literary relevance and excitement.
Literary AllStar Trading Cards!
List price $1 each. •Item#CARD-(name). Each ULA writer and activist member has a hilarious “action hero” trading card! Reverse side lists stats, achievements, loves/hates. (A collectible bookmark!)
Promotional Poster
$2. Free on request for new store account. 11x17” glossy. •Item#Poster.