Böcker utgivna av Drag City

Back in print for the first time this era is David Berman s Actual Air. Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry, David Berman s first (and only) book of poetry is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, and updated full-colour endpapers.

Musician, poet and cartoonist David Berman's first collection of illustrations.

Comedian/Writer/Producer Lesley Arfin, author of the incendiary Dear Diary book and writer for the equally eruptive shows Girls, Awkward., Betty and Love (the latter two of which she co-created) drops her first graphic art collection. Plumbing the ambiguous depths of real life trouble with glittery reflections on gender, weather, feminism, fantasy and failure, Lesley lovingly renders her un-safe spaces in a nostalgic riot of watercolor, gauche, acrylic, fiber and collage.

Shorty's Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between singer Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on work by Oldham and musician Matt Sweeney. Drawing inspiration from the story of Noah, Shorty's Ark names and pictures a wild variety of species to inform and engage an equal variety of young minds with the diversity that can be found around this great planet of ours. The flood stands as metaphor for current impending changes in our planet, and the story works as a springboard for understanding concepts of interdependency, diversity and extinction. Colorfully illustrating as many creatures and their places as possible, Shorty's Ark is an earth-affirmative vision meant to stimulate the curiosity and passion of those who encounter it.

The dedicated producers-cum-art-collective PFFR (Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy and Jim Tozzi) have been at large for what seems like we wish was forever. Their nightmare visions, as realized in Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, Final Flesh and The Heart She Holler, to name less than a handful, have provided the world a stream of images that amount to no less than a cautionary tale - and a lot more, for those whole like to laugh and enjoy their sense of ambiguity shaken, not stirred. The images here made around the time they were spitballing the material that was going to become Wonder Showzen.

This reprinting of Korine''s first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art; but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-colour jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol'' world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least.