Month: June 2017

STAND AND SALUTE!

What happens when you combine patriotism and ‘pataphysics (the science of imaginary solutions)? That’s right, you get a big BANG and fireworks — all packed inside the new
LE SCAT NOIR.  

The July issue features incendiary works by Alain Arias-Misson, Paulo Brito, Norman Conquest, Mitchell Eva, Eckhard Gerdes, Harold Jaffe, Alfred Jarry, Richard Kostelanetz, Terri Lloyd, Frank Pulaski, Jason E. Rolfe, Paul Rosheim, Mercie Pedro e Silva, and Doug Skinner. 

#225 marks the first interactive edition with “live” links and an EXCLUSIVE screen-video of Alfred Jarry’s resurrection!  

As always, it’s free to read online or download to your device, so stand and salute! Then  CLICK HERE.

Sucker Punch Gala in NYC

(photo by Karina Tarnawsky)

If you were in NYC on June 15th and missed the BLACK SCAT SUCKER PUNCH bout between high lit  heavyweight champs Yuriy Tarnawsky (seated)) and Alain Arias-Mission —shame on you! You missed a bloody good reading.

The Emily Harvey Foundation. provided ringside seats,  booze & noisemakers  to an unruly crowd of fans. Tarnawsky threw wicked upper-cuts from his classic collection of “short shrift fictions,” CROCODILE SMILES, while Arias-Misson responded with  a blazing left hook from his new novel THE DETECTIVE WHO DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE.

Alas, both titles are out of print.

Gone Missing

The following 55 Black Scat titles are no longer in print. This explains why some links in old blog posts take you to an order page that no longer exists. All available titles can be found here.

OUT OF PRINT

HOW I BECAME AN IDIOT BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY. Allais
CAPTAIN CAP. Volumes I-IV. Allais
PISSOIRS, BIDETS, CRAPPERS & THRONES. Auvray
WASTED ENERGIES, BAFFLED THOUGHTS. Bacon
MUD BATH. Bealy
CONTEMPORARY ART FOR RICH KIDS. Bianchessi
THE FACETIAE EROTICA OF POGGIO. Bracciolini
A CAMI SAMPLER. Cami
COLD IN THE BRAIN. Carolino
FANNY HILL. Cleland
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ART DECONSTRUCTION. Conquest
THE NEGLECTED WORKS OF NORMAN CONQUEST. Conquest
SNOWDROP IN AFRICA. Conquest
DON’T WORRY, IT’S NOT ABOUT HATS. Conquest
REAR WINDOWS. Conquest
BURN THIS BOOK. Conquest
BLINK: VISUAL ANTIPHONIES. Debut
THE TWO LOVES OF NUNNY. Debut
MINCE. Doove
IF YOU DON’T READ THIS THE TERRORISTS WILL WIN. Forsythe
‘S A BIRD. Gerdes
THE SUGAR NUMBERS. Hamilton
THE OTHER SIDE. Hibbard
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF TRISTAN TZARA. Isou
KIRGHIZ STEPPES: ACCUMULATED VERBO-VISUALS. Kasper
WHITE FIRE & OTHER TALES. Kmoch
THE WORKS & LIFE OF KOSTY RICHARDS. Kostelanetz
THE BEST OF THE CHRISTMAS CATALOGUES. Leigh
IT’S FUN TO BE RICH IN AMERICA. Leigh
THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF COMMIE PORN. Lloyd
KATE MOSS & OTHER HEROINES. Memi
SHATTERED RAINBOW. Mori
MOO NUDES. Mori
EMBRYO WORLD. Nations
NICKLE NOIR. Nickle
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SADE. Pell
DOKTOR BEY’S SUICIDE GUIDEBOOK. Pell
SCAR MIRROR. Pell
SURREALIST TEXTS. Prassinos
WOMEN THAT DON’T EXIST. Pulaski
AN EROTICS OF SEEING. Rice
AN INCONVENIENT CORPSE. Rolfe
FISHSLICES. Rosheim
HOROSCRAPES. Skinner
WALLOOMSAC: A WEEK ON THE RIVER. Slavitt
HOT HEART OF BOAR & OTHER TASTES. Southern
MERDE À LA BELLE ÉPOQUE. Various
OULIPO PORNOBONGO (volumes 1-3). Various
TRUE CRIME: The People vs. Rrose Sélavy. Waldmann
THE DERANGEMENT OF JULES TORQUEMAL. Wexelblatt
DOLL WITH CHILI PEPPER, Whalen
HOTEL ORTOLAN. Whalen

“THAT REGRETTABLE WEEKEND”

Black Scat author and translator Doug Skinner has just released his new album—THAT REGRETTABLE WEEKEND—featuring 21 songs that will make you laugh, cry in your beer, feel  nostalgic for old New York and those better (some might say bitter) days that never existed. Golden vocals with traces of dark humor and a haunting uke conspire to lull one down a slippery slope.

Take a listen to the title cut:

You can purchase the full digital album for only $9, or nab your favorite tracks for a buck.

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Watch for THE DOUG SKINNER SONGBOOK coming later this year.

CHEER UP — IT’S FREE!

The June Gloom issue of LE SCAT NOIR is now available for download. We won’t bother mentioning that  it’s free because  you  already know that. #224 features an international roster of artists and writers, including Alphonse Allais, Adrienne Auvray, Mark Axelrod, Paulo Brito, Norman Conquest, Farewell Debut, Félix Fénéon, Pippa Anais Gaubert, Eckhard Gerdes, Thomas Gresham, Adao Iturrusgarai, Jim Johnson, Rick Krieger, Terri Lloyd, Jim McMenamin, Andy O’Clancy, Frank Pulaski, Jason E. Rolfe, Paul Rosheim, Marina Rubin, Doug Skinner, and Rebecka Skog.