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Fiction: The Place of the Yellow Woodpecker by Hugh Fox; Dear Vito by Mickey Z.; Motels of Burning Madness by John-Ivan Palmer; WHEN PACINO’S HOT, I’M HOT A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary by Robert Levin; São Paulo Blues by Jim Chaffee
Nonfiction: Put It Down in a Book by Tom Bradley; Mainfesto in Five Easy Movements by CHANCE
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The Place of the Yellow Woodpecker by Hugh Fox: The Place of the Yellow Woodpecker is the University of Florianopolis in Santa Catarina, Brazil in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the time of military rule. The writing is of the earth, reaching down into the culture, the poverty and hardship, and bridging to the outside, especially the US as a haven for escape — not to freedom, but to the home of a worshipped overlord of wealth and power, to be closer to that demigod and to share in the prosperity.; Like Charles Ives, like Herman Melville, Hugh Fox is an American original. There is no one else writing like him today.
— Richard Morris.; more...

Dear Vito by Mickey Z.: James Hemming is a personal trainer who, in his spare time, enters air guitar contests mimicking Vito Bratta of the old hair metal band, White Lion. He meets the waif-like Indigo at the gym and recruits her into a plot to make himself famous while resurrecting Vito’s legend. The tale unfolds through a pasticcio of flashbacks, diary entries, letters to Vito, and related vignettes that suddenly segue off to introduce back-stories, underlying themes, and other unexpected intersections. It's funny, quirky, perverted, and guaranteed to provoke a response.; "Mickey Z. continues to develop his unique American ouvre, this time focusing on lightning-fast tales of interconnected urban blight. It's easy to talk about punk rock writing, but Mickey really does write as if he doesn't give a fuck but knows what must be said."
—NED VIZZINI, It’s Kind of a Funny Story; more...

Motels of Burning Madness by John-Ivan Palmer: Literary renegade John-Ivan Palmer worked through several male dance agencies to research this satire of strange romance. Huey Dubois, the Hollywood gigolo, can’t say no to a deep obsession for older women. Party girls and jealous husbands clash with hairy male strippers, cross-dressers, and a rich heiress, leading to a final showdown where Huey bares more than just his body.; The novel transcends its cast of bizarre characters caught up in their gender circus and becomes a deft dissection of desire itself.; more...