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The Collected Poetry, Stories and Erotic Sass of Derrick C SCB DISTRIBUTORS FALL 2016 SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT SCB DISTRIBUTORS IS Braided Worlds Publishing PROUD TO INTRODUCE Street Smart Press Sugoi Books SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT The cover image for this catalog is from the book Let Her Be Free, by Icy and Sot, published by Lebowski Publishers and found on page 35 of this catalog. Catalog layout by Dan Nolte, based on an original idea by Rama Crouch-Wong UH-OH The Collected Poetry, Stories and Erotic Sass of Derrick C. Brown By Derrick C. Brown “…one of the best independent poetry presses in the country.” – Forbes and Filter …a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.” – The New York Times This collection contains all new work from All The Energies of Death, plus Brown’s best work from Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife, Scandalabra, Strange Light, Our Poison Horse, and I Love You. EVERY COFFIN IS A SOAP BOX DERBY (excerpt) Tear apart every picture frame in the house and build that casket. Wallpaper the roof of it with the photos like your high school locker. Load it with the images of all the animals and friends you loved. Holler gratefulness to the animals you killed or that died around you, under your care, trying to make you see. You should’ve watched and learned that language doesn’t solve everything, to fight at the right time, to surrender well, to hold still and shake alone, clean your nasty out and eat it wild, race down the grass on ice blocks and howl away nude in the night. You will gain speed and sing that the prize is wildness. BROWN’S BOOKS HAVE SOLD 35,000 COPIES Chop up all them frames, let yourself be scared as a pheasant realizing the decoy, too late, too late. Pack the bags under your gaze. Get into your solid black soap box derby for one. Goodbye clean heroes. Goodbye marketable life. Goodbye safe lethargy. Goodbye resurrected shame. Goodbye wallflower botanist. Sing out that you are not sorry. Forever is for losers. Relax and give in to all the victoriously beautiful, loving energies of death. UH-OH Derrick C. Brown is a comedian, poet and story- teller who won 2013 Texas Book of the Year ISBN: 978-1-938912-62-7 award for Poetry. A former Paratrooper, he is $20.00 | paper the president of Write Bloody and has written ALSO AVAILABLE 5 books of poetry and 3 children’s books. 6 x 9 304 pages He tours continuously. He lives in LA. September MARKETING ■ early promotion via author’s national tour with Greg Dulli/Afghan Whigs Poetry ■ www.brownpoetry.com Our Poison Horse WRITE BLOODY 978-1-938912-53-5 PUBLISHING SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..FALL 2016..|..1 Kanley Stubrick By Mike Kleine Kanley Stubrick is about the things in the world that we don’t know, and offers readers permission to embrace what we don’t know without fear. A girl loses her shoe and the guy she lives with starts calling their friends to see if they know anything about the missing shoe. Some of them have theories, others don’t seem to care. Then the girl herself disappears and the guy goes looking for her. It might be April, but it might also be June. The missing girl might be in Ojai, or she might be in Merced. She might have brown hair, or she might not. Things disappear because there is nothing to hold them in place. Concerning cosmic wounds, out-of-nowhere violence, metaphysics and an existential trauma rococo portrait of a world we once knew, this is a new approach to the fiction in the style of A MEDITATION ON LOVE AND LOSS Nicholas Sparks. IN THE 21ST CENTURY Mike Kleine, born in West Africa in 1988, wrote the novels Mastodon Farm and Arafat Mountain. He graduated from Grinnell in French literature and lived in France. He now lives in Iowa. MARKETING Kanley Stubrick ■ national author tour ■ reviews and features in mainstream and literary media ISBN: 978-0-9964218-3-6 ■ review copies available $12.95 | paper ALSO AVAILABLE 5 x 7 104 pages September Fiction WE HEARD YOU I Hate the Internet LIKE BOOKS 978-0-9964218-0-5 2..|..SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..FALL 2016 Kodak Mantra Diaries and Other Smoke Signals By Iain Sinclair “Light-shavings and word-residues from a time that cannot conceivably have happened. Here Iain Sinclair has retrieved a luminous double-exposure of Allen Ginsberg and 1960s London.” – Alan Moore, Watchmen First hardcover edition of a rare classic, an astonishing book on 1960s radical politics. For 2 weeks in 1967, London hosted The Congress on the Dialectics for the Demystifi - cation of Violence, a counterculture happening showcasing R.D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Emmett Grogan, Stokely Carmichael and Herbert Marcuse, and hosted by Allen Ginsberg. Sinclair filmed the event, particularly Ginsberg, for a West German TV documentary, and in 1971 self-published this book about the event. Now accompanied by new texts about and by Beat Generation survivors, and records of random encounters with them, the re- emergence of this title is both a literary and historical event. ALLEN GINSBERG IN 1960s LONDON ■ originally published by Sinclair’s Albion Village Press, 1971 Iain Sinclair has lived in East London since 1969. His novels include Downriver (Winner, James Tait Black and Encore Prizes), and Dining on Stones (Ondaatje Prize shortlist). His non-fiction books explore London. Recent titles include American Smoke (2013) and London Overground (2015). Kodak Mantra Diaries and Other Smoke Signals ISBN: 978-0-9964218-4-3 $24.95 | hardcover 6 x 9 200 pages 30 B&W Illustrations November Journalism Filmmaking WE HEARD YOU LIKE BOOKS SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..FALL 2016..|..3 Leonora Come Down By Agustin Aguilar Arturo’s town conceals a secret beneath layers of sediment in an ancient lakebed. This may be why a boy, Arturo, has brought home a sentient basalt pyramid, and why he begins to see a triangular shadow cast by his body. In his town, rumors and suspicions swirl around and truth, he finds, is a creature that lives in a lake. A lake, along with the inhabitants along its shore, that may or may not be returning to their land. “A little to the left, and down,” the pyramid said. Arturo stopped, and the pyramid grumbled because it very much preferred the touch of hands to the paddle of feet, especially under the tableros—the small lip above the wall of each layer—which was where Arturo had just been stroking in a delightful figure-eight. He spun around one way and then the other, and when no other explanation fit he looked to the heavens, and the pyramid laughed right under his butt. So the boy knocked and the pyramid knocked back and called out from stones near and far and even barked like a coyote. What really A NEW VOICE IN MAGICAL REALISM convinced him was when the pyramid threw a water bottle at the tourists who left it, and they looked like asses yelling up at no one and still not picking up their trash, and when considering that the thin air and lack of water in the August sun might have mushed his brain, then really Arturo’s acceptance of a talking pyramid wasn’t so far-fetched. Anyways, at some point he asked for Its name and in that moment someone called out “Leonora,” not a terrible sound, especially since the names and meanings the pyramid carried, and which, of course, It Leonora Come Down had no say in, were hideous and dull like Greek columns or heroic yarns of men attacking and defending walls. ISBN: 978-0-9964218-2-9 As far as titles went, “Leonora” would do fine. $12.95 | paper ALSO AVAILABLE Agustin Aguilar, with a self-created degree 5 x 7 104 pages from Columbia, grew up near Chicago, August raised by his mother, a native of the South Side, and his father, a Mexican immigrant. He lives in NYC. Fiction Hispanic Studies WE HEARD YOU BTW: A Novel LIKE BOOKS 978-0-9855085-6-2 4..|..SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..FALL 2016 Mozlandia Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands By Melissa Mora Hidalgo Foreword by Gustavo Arrellano Explores the subculture of Morrissey and Smiths fandom as a US-Mexican borderland phenomenon. The former singer of the influential Manchester band, the Smiths, is one of the most intriguing, popular, iconic and polarizing figures in pop ular culture. But this book is not about Morrissey. This book is about his fans, about their creative expressions of fandom and their contributions to Morrissey’s worldwide popularity. Melissa Mora Hidalgo holds a PhD in literature from UCSD and writes short fiction, scholarly essays and beer blogs. She has been a Morrissey fan since 1991, but has never met him. Hidalgo lives in LA. Gustavo Arrellano is editor of the OC Weekly; author of Ask a Mexican! and of Taco USA: How LATINO/LA MORRISSEY FANDOM Mexican Food Conquered America. He is also a syndicated columnist. MARKETING ■ reviews and features on Vice and in LA Weekly, OC Weekly and LA Times ■ radio including NPR (KCRW; KPCC; WNYC), Indie1031.com, KPFK (LA) ■ promotion via author’s long-established Twitter handle Mozlandia @mozlandia and Facebook page Mozlandia ■ author tour including LA and SF ISBN: 978-1-909394-42-1 $19.95 | paper 6 x 9 220 pages 17 B&W Photos & Illustrations November Music Pop Culture HEADPRESS SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..FALL 2016..|..5 Everyone Loves You Back By Louie Cronin “A very funny, very smart book, this one has it all: Cambridge wackos, toxic trees, and characters you fall in love with.
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