Manic D Press Inc : 40 books

In this poetic memoir of a rough and tumble life, from her backwoods childhood without boundaries to a California urban adulthood filled with triumphs and disasters, Cassandra Dallett spares no details in a poetry memoir that reads like the love child of Charles Bukowski and Elizabeth Bishop. These...

The first ever children’s book with human punk rockers as the main characters. A perfect novelty book for people interested in punk nostalgia. Many people who grew up enjoying punk rock are now adults, parents, aunts and uncles, teachers, etc. are would enjoy sharing this book with...

- Author is recognized poet, recipient of 2007 NEA Fellowship in Poetry - Speaks to working mothers and first generation children of immigrants - Very accessible poetry - Previous titles taught at colleges throughout US

From glittering debauched nights of 1980s Hollywood ("Escape from Houdini Mountain") to the festering bowels of New York's Lower East Side ("Must Have Been Love"), these 26 mind-bending tales chronicle a young woman's quest for romantic adventure. Infectiously entertaining, Escape from Houdini Mountain is a rollicking ride of a read with resonance.

For anyone who had a childhood dream, which is just about everyone. In Hairdresser On Fire, everybody is flawed. People who like a dark edge to their humor, or find humor in dark places, would enjoy it.

"Heartbreaking and hilarious simultaneously... " ­ James Tate In Jeffrey McDaniel's second book, it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in 'The Most Awful Lullaby', or broken-hearted romance in poems like 'Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams'.

Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows...

Before she wrote prose, Michelle Tea was a poet. This expansive, fiery volume collects Tea's early chapbooks along with previously unpublished poems, making vivid Tea's own life, from the dysfunctional family household she left in New England through college and the Tucson sex trade, to the happier life she made for herself on the West Coast.

“In Hillman’s world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian “Hillman’s writing is sexy because it’s smart and refuses to simplify things.”—Fabula Magazine "Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases...

More than 20 million Americans came of age in the mid-1970s. Contains references to events and experiences shared by the last of the Baby Boomers. The Baby Boomer target readership controls over 80% of personal financial assets and more than 50% of discretionary spending power. The...

"In Stealing Cherries, Marina Rubin offers us a collection of precisely chiseled blocks of soulful, funny, heart-rending fiction."-Ted Jonathan, author of Bones & Jokes "Part old-fashioned gal who begs airport security to allow through her dearly departed grandmother's eyebrow...

In this collection of 23 short stories, one of the original masters of early-twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy is introduced to a new generation of readers. Fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary exotic locales and depictions of otherworldly grim creepiness abound.