SWALLOWTUDE - ROB PLATH - EPIC RITES PRESS

"The dull yellow eye of the creature has opened! SWALLOWTUDE by Rob Plath, featuring exterior and visual appendix by Pablo Vision.

EPIC RITES PRESS began its long, strange journey with the publication of Plath's monster poetry collection A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY, which was followed by other poetry collections like THERE'S A FIST DUNKED IN BLOOD BEATING IN MY CHEST, DEATH IS DEAD, and THE SKELETON SUTRAS. Along the way we released drama WE'RE NO BUTCHERS, a creative writing textbook AN AX FOR THE FROZEN SEA, and even an illustrated children's book HEARTS FOR BRAINS, featuring art by Janne Karlsson. And now ... SWALLOWTUDE, Plath's first novel.

Truly, with SWALLOWTUDE, we've created something unparalleled. This book moves like a hungry parasite through your brain, searching for that small part of you that wants to live."

"Harry is an angry, out-of-work writer who is sick to his stomach of existence. It's not that Harry's afraid of doing himself in-it's just that for now he prefers suicide to be a slow striptease of sex, booze, drugs, etc. Through all lower-case, straight razor-sharp prose, Plath's experimental novel SWALLOWTUDE slashes the Void into ribbons and carves JUST LIVE into our brains."

"All advanced orders for Rob Plath's newest book SWALLOWTUDE have shipped! I can't wait to hear feedback about Plath's novel. First, Misti Rainwater-Lites' novel BULLSHIT RODEO was blacklisted, then my SAVAGE LOVE was banned; with SWALLOWTUDE, however, I have a feeling Rob Plath, Pablo Vision, and myself may very well wind up behind bars. If, as Kafka says, a book should be "an ax for the frozen sea," then SWALLOWTUDE is a motherfucking chainsaw!

Thank you to everyone who placed an advanced order for SWALLOWTUDE. Your money has been placed in trust to bail us out of jail.

SWALLOWTUDE motherfuckers!" - Wolfgang Carstens

Available now at www.epicrites.org and www.amazon.com

Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness

Heather Fowler’s fourth collection of fiction speaks the language of need. Desperate, obsessive, even demented need—both emotional and erotic—is voiced by characters ill or ill-advised. From cyber to stalker, illicit, explicit, tender and tedious, the relationships in Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness translate love and lust into disorder. How we hear our own need and the way it sounds to others proves in these enthralling stories an imperfect but utterly captivating conversation, a destructive yet dynamic discourse between well-being and disease, images and words.

 

 

 

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PRAISE for Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness :

“The stories in Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness span time and space, sanity and insanity, our dreams and our nightmares. From Renaissance Italy to the French Revolution to the modern dangers of Facebook stalkers, Fowler’s characters explore all of the pleasures and pains of love, that “monster…forged from both hope and desire.” Fowler takes risks; each story is a spellbinding journey. I can’t think of a short story collection I’m more excited to recommend this year.”

—Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children’s War and Other Poems

 

“Heather Fowler writes stories that need to be written. Unabashedly ripping open the emotional turmoil that continues to plague the lives of men and women, Fowler crafts fantastical tales that reveal the underbelly of our pains and desperation. She’s the heir of Angela Carter, caressing words like lovers, making the unreal real.”

—Paula Bomer, author of Nine Months

 

“The characters in Heather Fowler’s fiction are strange and magnificent, sad and strong, trapped and independent, adjusted and not. In other words, they are real. The sheer variety of stories in Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness is striking and the pure athletic grace with which each is told is testament to Fowler’s willingness to stretch and experiment. This is an author with a voluminous bag of tools. She is daring and audacious in all the right ways. There is a delight to her surprises, her wonderments. Savor her titles, which, emblematic of her range, are pithy, mordant, cerebral, playful and ingenious: ‘Giant Balloon Animal Tragedies,’ ‘Good Country. People’ (with its conscious echoes of Flannery O’Connor, an author to whom Fowler can be favorably compared), ‘Speak to Me with Tenderness, Howard Sun.’ Heather Fowler is adept at decoding the human predicament. One yarn begins, ‘Listen, I am telling you a story.’ So you lean closer and, when you do, you can feel the author’s warm breath on your cheek.”

—Corey Mesler, author of Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite

 

 

“In Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness, Heather Fowler draws us into characters buzzing with internal lives that feel eerily familiar, as though she is showing us a piece of ourselves. What is chilling—and addictive—about her writing is how often those internal lives are ones of disorder. Her renderings remind us of the sanity within insanity, and they do indeed reveal the elegance—and sexiness—of the seamy underbelly of what it means to be human, of the most private parts of our bodies and brains.”

—Ming Holden, author of The Survival Girls

“The characters in Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness are so vulnerable and full of yearning that I read the collection with my heart in my throat. Their lives of quiet desperation are rendered with such depth and grace that they seem to haunt the stories they inhabit even while they live and breathe inside them. Fowler is truly a master of her craft.”

—Rebecca Kanner, author of Sinners and the Sea

 

 

 

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ELEGANTLY NAKED IN MY SEXY MENTAL ILLNESS

I am extremely pleased to announce that Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness is to be published by Queen’s Ferry Press in May 2014.

Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness is an absolutely stunning collection of literary modern and historical short fiction. I am tremendously proud to have contributed custom artwork to accompany each of the seventeen stories.


Heather Fowler

Queen’s Ferry Press


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SWALLOWTUDE

I am very pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Rob Plath’s Swallowtude by Epic Rites Press.

"This book will make Henry Miller blush in his grave."

Rob Plath’s uncompromising novella will also include a visual appendix comprising of twelve new illustrations.

Epic Rites Press

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PARAPHILIA: TAGADA

In a rare deviation from visual art, I'm pleased to announce the inclusion of new written work in the latest issue of Paraphilia Magazine.

PARAPHILIA: TAGADA
AUGUST 19TH, 2012
FEATURING:

PABLO VISION, ROB SUSSMAN, SEAN MADDEN, ANDREW MABEN, MARIJKE KOGER-DUNHAM, HEATHER HARRIS, ELE-BETH LITTLE, TOBY HUSS, STEVE OVERBURY, LAURENCE THOMPSON, CHRISTOPHER NOSNIBOR, JIM COLEMAN, BETH B, F.X. TOBIN, MIKE HUDSON, RICHARD BLANDFORD, DOLOROSA DE LA CRUZ, ALEXANDER NATAS, ALEXANDER HACKE, MATTHIAS PENZEL, TONY RAUCH, MICHAEL DENT, LISA WORMSLEY, MICHAEL CANO, PATSY FARAGHER, MIKE WATT, LANA GENTRY, CRAIG WOODS, GREGG SUTTON, RICHARD REYNOLDS, ROBERT EARL REED, RICK GRIMES, HANK KIRTON, CHRIS MADOCH, dixē.flatlin3, DON BOLLES, CHRISTY LOU, CLAUDIA BELLOCQ, RICHARD A. MEADE, PATRICK WRIGHT, VICTORIA FIEREK, KATIEJANE GARSIDE, TOM GARRETSON, DAVID GIONFRIDDO, CLAUDIA MURARI, JOSHUA SERAPHIM, THOMAS EVANS, JOHN WISNIEWSKI, HENRY ROLLINS, KRIS DENTON, GAY ANNIVERSARY, SUSAN TE KAHURANGI KING, DAVID HOENIGMAN, MATASHICHI KUMAGAE, MATT LEYSHON, RON GARMON

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PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE

Antique Children

Kingdom Freaks & Other Divine Wonders

Writers: Scot Sothern, Hank Kirton, Andrei Codrescu, Paul Krassner, Kris Saknussemm, Amy Wright, Craig Woods, Rudy Ch. Garcia, Gary J. Shipley, James Beach, Patrick Wright, William Michaelian, Janet Slike, Aimee DeLong, Timothy Martin, Ron Hirschbein, Travis Jeppesen, and David Shetzline

Poets: Bill Gainer, evan lee ward, Paul Lopez, Martin Balgach, Ruxandra Cesereanu

Comics: Rick Grimes, Sean Madden, Vincent Wright, Fiona Poppadello, Elliot Feldman, Cody Sevedge

Artists: Dariusz Skitek, Richard de la Torre, Christian Demare, Emric KABAL, Myko Semper, Brendan Danielsson, Bryan Lewis Saunders, pablo vision, Mateusz Niebal, Nunzio Barbera II, Piercarlo Carella, Cystal Herman, Joseph Loughborough, Matt Nocera, Stephan Maich, Jean Fabien, Scot Sothern, Janieta Eyre and Pedro Meyer

Antique Children

 

 

Kino

Klaus Koblitz Retrospective

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To find out more about Klaus “Kino” Koblitz – including recently restored footage of The Tulip Thief - visit Atticus Books and the Tulpendiebe blog

Jürgen Fauth's Kino at Atticus Books

Tulpendiebe Blog

Epic Rites Press

AN AGE OF MONSTERS – William Taylor Jr – Epic Rites Press

AN AGE OF MONSTERS is the first collection of short stories by San Francisco poet William Taylor Jr. The book features fifteen short stories by Taylor, plus images by award-winning photographer Julie Michelle.

“William Taylor Jr. writes with guts and honesty, taking us into the minds of characters that are scary and oddly lovable at the same time.”—Tony DuShane

“AN AGE OF MONSTERS is written in the voice of a sad, wistful romantic resigned to the often brutally ugly reality of modern life. Underlying the romanticism is a rich sense of humor and irony. These are timeless stories sharp with multiple angles. They resonate.”—Misti Rainwater-Lites

“William Taylor Jr. writes about life on the fringe in San Francisco with extraordinary clarity and with great humor and humanity.”—George Anderson

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STUMBLES AND HALF SLIPS – Zack Wilson – Epic Rites Press

“STUMBLES AND HALF SLIPS is a superb insight into the life of a man dwelling in a world occupied by fools. This book implausibly inhabits the grey area between social realism and downright awkwardness; as Ray Doyle, delivery driver, stands as the lone voice of sanity in a quaint English town, struggling to comprehend the maudlin muddle that consumes his mind the morning after a night spent slouched by the bar. Zack Wilson has written a brutally honest account about what it is like to be stuck in the doldrums.”—Richard Wink

 “Zack Wilson is one of that most important, yet often most overlooked, breed of writers: a chronicler of the extraordinary hearts that beat out ordinary lives.”—Matthew David Scott

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THE BUDDHA DOESN'T LIVE HERE – James Darman – Epic Rites Press

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MEMENTO MORI

Coming soon…..

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Epic Rites Press

Outsider Writers Collective

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Outsider Writers

parasite

VOLUME ONE: PARASITE LOST – D M Mitchell – PARAPHILIA BOOKS

Introduction by Michael Roth
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“…a derangement of the senses, an infiltration of one’s carefully constructed identity and its ultimate destruction from within; an invocation of one’s guardian demon; a letter to a secret lover; a hagiography of a disturbed saint; a dissolution of boundaries that follows contact with the meaningless; a manifestation of a cephalopod’s wet dream… ...a funhouse mirror that disfigures the ideas of the dominant culture…”

“When David Michael K visited The Doctor's office, housed in the mysterious Building, he hadn't anticipated his life tipping into madness where reality melted and stretched and fiction merged with real life. In a satirical romp that sends up postmodernism, popular culture and satirises satire itself, our hero is chased by homicidal drug-dealing clowns, cartoon characters, pink UFOs and creatures of pure nightmare. Is this a serious book disguised as humour? or a joke at the expense of the intelligentsia? Fun stuff.”

Paraphilia Books

citadel

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morpheus tales issue 12

Featuring: John S. Barker, Matthew Freyer, Christopher Glazer, Brick Marlin, Vladimir Petkovic, Lawrence Barker, Kurt Fawver, Charlie Zacherl, Edward Rodosek, John F. D. Taff, Dameion Becknell, Charles A. Muir, Martin Blanco, Martin Slag, Ian Welsh, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf and Carey Borgens.

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Morpheus Tales

Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts

Click image to enter the weird and wonderful world of Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts.

Published by Paraphilia Magazine, this Quantum Anthology of words and images includes contributions from Pablo Vision V. Ulea Irene Frenkel Nicholas Alexander Hayes Rochelle Dinkin D. Harlan Wilson Rachel Kendall Rachel Isaac Benjamin Robinson Michael Blekhman Izya Shlosberg Jonathan Shipley Tantra Bensko Dorothee Lang Kyle Muntz J.A.Tyler Annelyse Gelman Michail Judovskij Peter Diseth Chrystal Blue Jay Caselberg Tom Bradley Gareth D Jones Debbie Vilardi Alex Kats Adam La Rusic Susannah Mandel David Schwartz Marc Lowe Louise Norlie Yveta Shanfeldova Tyler Williams Patricia Russo Dennis Danvers Douglas Hutcheson John Beleskas Seth Rowanwood Yelena Dubrovin Colin Meldrum Betty Jo Tucker Misha Chariton Grace Andreacchi.