F. Scott Fitzgerald Cambridge University Press ($39.95) by Christopher Fischbach In the introduction to Trimalchio, the editors of this "early version of The Great Gatsby" repeatedly claim that the publication of this book is "not only for comparison with The Great Gatsby but for interpretation as a separate and distinct work of art." Why they so adamantly make such a […]
Pamela Lu Atelos ($12.95) by Aaron Benjamin Kunin According to its mission statement, Atelos publishes "under the sign of poetry" works that are "involved in some way with crossing traditional genre boundaries." But there's nothing in Pamela: A Novel that signals any kind of generic instability or discomfort; if we sense any, it's only because the publisher […]
Ben Katchor Pantheon ($22) by Todd Matthews One of the treasures inherent in comic strips is a combined sense of familiarity and distance. The characters of a favorite strip may inhabit familiar environments such as city streets, neighborhoods, office towers, or gathering places, but many of these places do not truly document actual locations. The […]
O POWERFUL WESTERN STAR Poetry & Art in California Jack Foley Pantograph Press ($12) FOLEY'S BOOKS California Rebels, Beats & Radicals Jack Foley Pantograph Press ($12) by John Olson Jack Foley sees California as fertile ground for what he terms "living perplexities." Questions regarding human consciousness, alienation, the relationship of our ethnic identities to our […]
by Karl Roeseler I first became aware of the Post-Apollo Press in that most primal of ways: I was browsing in a bookstore and saw a book on the shelf that looked interesting. I bought that book (Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan), and five years later I solicited a story from Etel for an anthology […]