Perhaps you lie awake at night, your mind racing with questions. Why did Yolanda hang a flotation device from the ceiling? What happened to the Butler Bullion? Can a duck teach a dog to fly? Will Dover and Larson explore that mysterious door? What typos are most prized by collectors? Will Thyrsis and Gallus escape the wolf? And what will Bach’s 37 children do when they’re kicked out of the house?
These, and many other questions not mentioned here, will be answered by the stories in Papa Bach. You might be too amused and stimulated to go back to sleep, but your life will be richer, and, above all, more enjoyable. And you’ll never know what these stories are about unless you read them. Dig in!
PAPA BACH & OTHER STORIES
Doug Skinner
Trade paperback; 146 pp., $12.95
ISBN 979-8-9932444-7-1
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Doug Skinner has contributed to The Fortean Times, Fate, Weirdo, Nickelodeon, Cabinet, Typo, and other fine publications. His many books include Music From Elsewhere (Strange Attractor Books), The Potato Farm, and Nominata (both from Black Scat Books). Black Scat has also published his translations of Alphonse Allais, Alfred Jarry, Luigi Russolo, Isidore Isou, Claude-Sosthène Grasset d’Orcet, Caroline Crépiat, and Corinne Taunay. Other translations include Three Dreams by Giovanni Battista Nazari (Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks), The Cocktail Hour by Marcel Requien and Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud (with Gaylor Olivier, Corps Reviver), and The Science of Love by Charles Cros (Wakefield Press).
He has written music for theater and dance, most conspicuously for Bill Irwin’s show The Regard of Flight, which toured for decades.His albums That Regrettable Weekend, It All Went Pfft, An Afternoon in the Arboretum, and Music From Elsewhere are available on Bandcamp.
TV and movie appearances include Great Performances, Martin Mull’s Talent Takes a Holiday, Ed, Crocodile Dundee II, and several of George Kuchar’s videos. He has played piano on the BBC, played ukulele on the Joe Franklin Show and at an Aerosmith release party, MC’d at the Rainbow and Stars, read the audiobook of Kiarna Boyd’s scary novel Blessed and Cursed Alike, and lectured on various questionable topics at the American Visionary Art Museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Healing, Lily Dale Assembly, the International Fortean Organization, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and other places.
You can track his progress at dougskinner.net.
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