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Barnacle To Publish Monkology Trade Edition and eBook | October 2011
LOS ANGELES, CA—After nearly seven years of anticipating an accessible edition of Gary Phillips’ legendary 2004 hardcover limited edition, A Barnacle Book announces a trade edition and ebook of Monkology: 13 Stories From The World of Private Eye Ivan Monk, to be released October 17, 2011.
ABOUT THE BOOK
MONKOLOGY features thirteen tough tales about Los Angeles private investigator Ivan Monk, including an original novelette, The King Alfred Plan, written expressly for the collection. In these stories you’ll encounter starry-eyed sinners, street corner revolutionaries, Hollywood hustlers, over-heated politicians, rightwing assholes, a ghost or two, cavorting cops, architects with major issues, flying saucers, and a little old lady with a popgun, all out to make their mark in the city of dreams and despair.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GARY PHILLIPS is the author of The Underbelly, The Jook, Freedom’s Fight, Bangers, The Perpetrators, Violent Spring, Perdition U.S.A., Bad Night Is Falling, Only The Wicked, High Hand, Shooter’s Point and Citizen Kang. He is also editor of the notable anthologies Orange County Noir, The Cocaine Chronicles, Politics Noir, and The Darker Mask: Heroes From The Shadows. His most recent story, “Soldanus, the Sultan of Crime,” is featured in the soon-to-be-released Green Hornet Casefiles from Moonstone. He lives in Los Angeles.
Girlvert Limited Art Edition Available Now!
GIRLVERT: A PORNO MEMOIR by Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue, The Art Edition (Exclusively Limited to 50 Copies)
“Oriana Small has pushed herself to the outermost extremes of what the body and mind are capable of—all before turning thirty years old—and now she’s made it an authentic read for the rest of us to marvel at, elevating the depravity and denial inherent in the pornographic arts to a singular literary experience.” —JAMES FREY, author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning
Proclaimed “girl-pervert” Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically.
This beautiful art edition of Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue is limited to only 50 copies, and features:
- Limited edition copy of the book with stonecut edges and a very special French-flappedletterpress cover that distinguishes itself dramatically from the standard trade edition cover art and design (signed and dated by the author)
- Jacketed in handmade Japanese paper by designer Ted Nava, including one bulbous Oriana Small pubic hair plucked by Small herself and inserted into each sheet of dust jacket paper as it dries
- Slipcased in beautiful handmade plywood by Ted Nava
- One original Polaroid of Oriana Small by legendary photographer Dave Naz
- One limited to 50 5x7 (hand signed and numbered) lithograph of Oriana Small artwork NOT featured in the book
- Admission for one to your choice of XXX Nite with Oriana Small and Friends launch events in either Los Angeles or New York
Freight is complimentary. However, ACT NOW! These will not be around long!
Publicity and Inquiries:
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Oriana Small has pushed herself to the outermost extremes of what the body and mind are capable of—all before turning thirty years old—and now she’s made it an authentic read for the rest of us to marvel at, elevating the depravity and denial inherent in the pornographic arts to a singular literary experience.
Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue (A Barnacle Book, April 2001)
