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The Ballad of
the Two Tom Mores is set in the fictional
Queneau, Arkansas. Restaurant reviewer Tom More
is living the good life, small town style. He
is a cad, a rural Romeo. But his sense of self
is abruptly shaken when another man with the
same name moves into Queneau. Meanwhile, as the
inhabitants of this countrified Peyton Place
are lustily carrying on, there is another
darker energy at work. Somebody is bumping off
the male inhabitants of Queneau. Someone, it
would seem, is on a self-appointed mission of
extermination. The Ballad of the Two Tom
Mores is dark comedy at its most outrageous
-- imagine a three-way between Carson
McCullers, Henry Miller and Peter DeVries.
(ISBN 978-0-9789847-1-7) $15.95.
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From the same
metafictional universe as the films Best in
Show and This is Spinal Tap,
Walking Man documents the life and times
of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking
Man. Through a fateful encounter between his
foot and a yuppie's BMW, Brian becomes the most
famous zine publisher in America and an ardent
defender of pedestrian rights. Meanwhile, he
must juggle the ambitions of his sexy actress
girlfriend with his own soaring celebrity.
Written in the tradition of the scandalous
tell-all biography, Walking Man
satirizes so-called "alternative" culture while
it fondly recollects the 80s and 90s zine
scene. (ISBN 978-0-9789847-0-0) $15.95.
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