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ERIC LARSEN, FOUNDER & PUBLISHER
ADAM ENGEL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR & PUBLISHER
"The Nation's Last Truly Independent Press"
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FOR A CATALOGUE FROM
THE OLIVER ARTS & OPEN PRESS
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 IN THE AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW FOR MAY and June of 2014, Stephanie Rauschenbusch writes that in Helen Tzagoloff's Listening to the Thunder
we see a poet who is a marvel of attentiveness, observing, enumerating, drawing conclusions, making her own life story a bildungsroman the reader can follow with comprehension and the occasional sense of epiphany. She writes about her immigrant experience and that of her parents who traveled across Siberia to end up in America, her friends, her lovers, her life in work, the view from her Upper East Side apartment:
cracked pavement,
a scrawny Ailanthus tree,
maybe a woman walking her dog
Her sense of political change, her mother's discarding her corset.
Read the whole review by clicking here.
Buy Listening to the Thunder by clicking here, here, here, or here.
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DISSIDENT VOICE, THE IMPORTANT AND NOTED ONLINE PUBLICATION, is fortunate--and has been so for some time--in having as a regular contributor The Phantom of dev/null, whose image may or may not (more likely not, most think, though others demur) be represented above. In any case, we know for a fact that the Phantom is a poet, writer, observer, commentator, thinker, critic, and analyst with unbounded range, razor-sharp sight, and a steel-gripped fidelity to the truth, however apocalyptic or ruinous it may be.
So intrepid is The Phantom, in fact, that, as part of a recent project, he interviewed the writer and publisher Eric Larsen on the subject of our nation's terminal literary illness and approaching death.
To see a flawlessly edited version of that interview, CLICK HERE.
To hear the author reading from The Decline and Fall of the American Nation to the accompaniment of visuals orchestrated by The Phantom, CLICK HERE.
To buy copies of The Decline and Fall of the American Nation as Christmas presents for the most intelligent, discerning, and thoughtful among your many relatives and friends, CLICK HERE.
To ask The Phantom of dev/null who on earth he really is (or at least to find out what he says) CLICK HERE.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN APARTMENT HOUSE,
BY
FLYNN LARSEN & ERIC LARSEN
from The Apartment House Press
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"If buildings could talk, what would they say? If they could listen, see, remember--above all if they could speak--what would we hear from them?" Through twenty portraits--by photographer Flynn Larsen--of people who live, or who once lived, in it, a 90-year-old apartment building "narrates" its own history. Prose pieces by writer and publisher Eric Larsen, accompanying each portrait, help explore the intertwining of the lives of these people--some young and just starting out, others well established with families and children, still others in their later years. Eric Larsen's Introduction tells the stories of a number of others for whom, by merit of their prior departures in one way or another--earthly or cosmic--it was impossible to take portraits.
What readers are saying:
Jill Smith: "I love it so much! I truly do! It's my morning cup of coffee's companion!"
E.B: "I just bought your book as a Chanukah present for my parents. It's beautiful, and really evokes so much about being a New Yorker. Congratulations!"
Mary Ann Breault: "What a wonderful book. The history was fascinating and it left me wanting more. Photography was rich; it totally captured the feel of this wonderful piece of history."
Have a Look for Yourself--and maybe buy a copy--HERE.
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NEWS, NOTES &
EXPECTATIONS
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COMING SOON: Barbara Mor's The Victory of Sex and Metal
"I finished it two or three days ago and have been thinking about it since. My god. The book is austere, hard, severe, unendingly inventive, not always pleasant, sometimes a slog, brilliantly determined, doggedly paced (or doggedly 'paced'), not always 'rewarding' but always demanding, never compromising, extraordinarily allusive and learned, drenched in imagery of slut and slime, aimed at the heaven of purity and release, boundless in concept and aim, by no means 'fun' or 'entertaining,' dead-serious throughout, a work of genius, vision, compulsion, cause, aesthetic-social-emotional impulse, or all of the above.
"How could we not, given the opportunity, be part of bringing it to print and public?"
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IT'S STILL A QUESTION: What do you suppose a "time-capsule limited edition" could be? Hint to the curious: Keep your eye on this space. . .
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OLIVER AND ITS GRACIOUS BENEFACTORS
Working without assets, endowment, or reserves, The Oliver Arts & Open Press aims to publish works of high merit and importance that are ignored or suppressed by mainstream publishing. If you care about this cause and are able or would like to help with it, we at Oliver would be exceedingly grateful, as would the authors whose work we seek to celebrate and make known. To donate, make a check or money order out to "Eric Larsen Press" and mail it to:
The Oliver Arts & Open Press
2578 Broadway (Suite #102)
New York, New York 10025
Our deepest thanks to these kind, generous, and thoughtful benefactors
of The Oliver Arts & Open Press:
Michael Fahey
Roxanne Griffith
Michael J. Rivard
Helen Tzagoloff
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