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Correpondences by Ben Greenman. (65.00 Price includes insured shipping)
The Accordion Packet: The "guts" of Ben Greenman's Correspondences; Three accordion books bearing two stories each, a postcard for participation in the postcard project, and a link to the postcard story, beautifully bound in a burgundy and gold letterpress band. ($15.00. Free Shipping.)
Bicycle by Paul Fattaruso. ($12.95. Free Shipping)
The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose ($14.95. Free Shipping)
The Session by Aaron Petrovich ($10.95. Free Shipping)
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CORRESPONDENCES
by Ben Greenman
ISBN 13: 9780978910334
$50.00
Publication Date: November, 2008
Hotel St. George launches a limited-edition series with the hand-crafted, letterpress accordion collection, Correspondences. Beautiful, intimate and mysterious, this latest work cements Greenman's reputation as one of Brooklyn's most beloved and gifted authors.
Correspondences provides a bittersweet glimpse at the lost art of letter-writing, and the manner and means by which emotions are conveyed in that form. The collection contains seven stories, all of which, in one way or another, speak to the disintegrating relationship between people--men and women, parents and children, authors and readers.
But the literal subject of the work is only the beginning of the discussion: Each hand-crafted, signed copy is composed of an unfolding chip-board casing built by letter-press maven Brandon Mise, which contains pockets for three accordion books bearing two stories each. The seventh story, which is written by Mr. Greenman with intentional gaps in the narrative, is printed on the casing and does something unprecedented: It invites the reader to contribute to the collection.The fourth pocket in the casing contains a postcard that the reader can use to fill in the gaps in Greenman's narrative and send to Hotel St. George Press for possible publication in future online and paperback editions of the book. This experiment, code-named "The Postcard Project," will incorporate work by authors and non-authors alike, resulting in an ever-shifting, community-created story. Learn more about the Postcard Project, overseen by Postmaster Greenman, by visiting our Mail Room.
In a changing publishing world, small presses are surviving--and flourishing--by embracing alternative models of publication. Correspondences treats the book as art object and the reader as community, all in the service of writing's ultimate goal, whether through personal missives or full-blown fantasy--communication.
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Order the Accordion Packet: The "guts" of Ben Greenman's Correspondences; Three accordion books bearing two stories each, a postcard for participation in the postcard project, and a link to the postcard story, beautifully bound in a burgundy and gold letterpress band. ($15.00. Free Shipping.)
BICYCLE
by Paul Fattaruso
with original drawings by Adam Thompson
ISBN 13: 9780978910327
$12.95
Publication Date: March, 2008
"I am quite convinced that Fattaruso became part bicycle to write this book. In reading it, in wishing it wouldn’t end, I was tempted to try to become one myself."
--Laird Hunt, author of The Exquisite
"Sad, funny, heartbreaking. Never have I been so swayed by the rendering of a common object to consider life’s grander pleasures & consequences."
--Jillian Weise, author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex
"Paul Fattaruso’s Bicycle is a tiny masterpiece."
--Joshua Marie Wilkinson, author of Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk
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The MUSICAL ILLUSIONIST
and Other Tales
by Alex Rose
ISBN 10: 0-9789103-1-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-9789103-1-0
$14.95
Publication Date: October, 2007
Disappearing manuscripts. Profane numbers. Extinct bacteria. Cities without shadows. A language spoken entirely in rhythms. A man deaf solely to the waltzes of Chopin. These are among the many anomalies to be found in the Library of Tangents, a vast underground archive whose beguiling exhibitions are detailed by Alex Rose in his exquisite debut collection, The Musical Illusionist.
A masterful fusion of science-historic precision and magical-realistic caprice, this Pandora's Box of curious tales stands in the tradition of Borges, Calvino and Pavic, blending the playfulness and mythic wonder of folk tales with the complexity and richness of modern thought.
Together, these interlaced parables chart an inebriating realm of possibility, the secret passageways that lie between words and meanings, neurons and thoughts, space and time, fact and fiction, sound and music—and in doing so, activate that rare, dreaming rapture one felt as a child, entranced.
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The SESSION
A novella in dialogue
by Aaron Petrovich
ISBN 10: 0-9789103-0-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-9789103-0-3
64 Pages, $10.95
Publication Date: April, 2007
Funny, frantic, and with a subversive intelligence, Aaron Petrovich's Keaton-esque heroes, Detectives Smith and Smith, stumble upon a bizarre new religion while following the trails of a murdered mathematician's missing organs. Their investigation to discover the truth -- about the murder, the mob of men and women who may have eaten him, and ultimately the nature of truth, sanity, and identity -- leads them into a lunatic asylum from which they may never leave.
Writing in a pitch-perfect language reminiscent of Beckett, Chandler, and Duras, Petrovich elevates rapid-fire banter to a transformative musical litany that carries the detectives, and the reader, right along with it. But he never lets us forget that his narrators remain, hysterically -- and tragically -- human.
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