NOTICE FROM THE PUBLISHER:
When Black Scat’s critical hardware started to fail about 4 months ago, friends suggested I try a fundraising campaign. I resisted for several reasons—one of which was the fear of public humiliation, i.e. that Scat might only receive a few contributions. After all, we’re a very small press in an ocean of publishing. Eventually, however, I realized it was worth a try, because the alternative would mean putting the clown to sleep.
It seems like a year since the campaign started, but now, 4 weeks later, I’m overwhelmed by the tremendous outpouring of support Scat received on IndieGoGo. Sunday night—with one hour left on the clock—we scored the goal!I’m still in a state of shock.
I want to thank everyone who participated. Times are tough and there are many worthy causes out there, so I’m particularly moved by your generosity. Indeed, several people made multiple donations. Many friends cheered us on and spread the word.
Now, thanks to you, I’ll be able to continue publishing in 2017.
Here are the 60 angels who came to the rescue. They truly deserve a standing ovation!
Nathalie M. Andrews
Alain Arias-Misson
Mark Axelrod
Allan Bealy
Pippa Bear
Tom Bowden
Yolande Brener
Paulo Brito
Suzanne Burns
Miggs Burroughs
Tom Bussmann
Keith Carmona
Larry Deck
S. C. Delaney
Thomas La Farge
Larry Fondation
Ryan Forsythe
Jamie Tolbert Franklin
Peter Gambaccini
Eckhard Gerdes
William Lloyd Gibson
Stephen Gutierrez
James Hardy
Emily Hayes
Pamala Heffner
Buddy Hernandez
Charles Holdefer
Teri Lee Kline
Andy Koopmans
Rick Krieger
James Langdell
Barbara LaPlaca-Hardy
Lawrence M LaPlaca
Terri Lloyd
Harry McCullagh
James McMenamin
Monika Mori
Sean O’Keefe
L T O’Rourke
Nhut Pham
Frank Pulaski
Doug Rice
Shane.Roeschlein
Jason E.Rolfe
Brian Sampley
Maria Schurr
Merceana Pedro e Silva
Nile Southern
Delecia Sydnor
Stephen F. Trull Jr.
Katherine Turner
Greg A Wallace
Dominic Ward
wares4art
Jeff Weddle
Tom Whalen
Tara Whitehead
Carla M. Wilson
Rebecca WoolstonI also want to thank the artists and writers who donated special perks to the campaign: Doug Rice, Terri Lloyd, Farewell Debut, Doug Skinner, Carla M. Wilson, and Eckhard Gerdes. You guys rock!
Finally, a special word of thanks to Carla Wilson, who donated countless hours, organized and headed the campaign from start to finish. Without her, it would never have happened.
Are you ready for more sublime art & literature?
You can bet I am.
Onward!
—Norman Conquest
Boo!
SLEEPYTIME CEMETERY: 40 STORIES by Doug Skinner
Discover a world of ostensibly human specimens behaving in peculiar and unpredictable ways. However, they are often recognizable in a manner we dare not admit. Skinner’s dark humor is deceptively playful and childlike, and that makes our bursts of laughter all the more disturbing.
$14.95 / trade paperback; 208 pp.
THE ZOMBIE OF GREAT PERU by Pierre-Corneille Blessebois. Translated by Doug Skinner
A zombie rises from the grave of French literature to stalk the earth once more! This bizarre novel – written in 1697 – marks the first mention of the word “zombie” in world literature. It is a wicked tale of lascivious lust and lunatic desires. Includes a preface by Guillaume Apollinaire.
$10.95 / trade paperback; 146 pp.
LSN “SPECIAL INFECTION ISSUE” NOW AVAILABLE!
Due to the raging Ubu Trump shitstorm, we have rushed publication of the “SPECIAL INFECTION ISSUE” of Le Scat Noir.
Number 216 features a cast of luminaries: Alphonse Allais, Samuele Bastianello, Paulo Brito, Colin Dodds, Allen Forrest, Eckhard Gerdes, Derek Pell, Alice Pulaski, Frank Pulaski, Jason E. Rolfe, Erik Satie, and Doug Skinner.
Includes the complete, uncensored transcript of Norman Conquest‘s “Ubu Raw: As You Like It.”
The journal is free for all.
CLICK HERE to download.
FREE FOR ALL!
excerpt
Amid the intensity of our ongoing fundraising drive, it’s always nice to be able to offer our readers something free, such as the current issue of Le Scat Noir. Number 215 features works by Paulo Brito, Norman Conquest, Paul Kavanagh, Jason E. Rolfe , and Doug Skinner.
CLICK HERE to download the PDF.
Arias-Misson in Action!
Black Scat author Alain Arias-Misson is up to his old tricks again.
Tomorrow Friday 23rd at 3:30 pm in front of the Deauville Royale Hotel and across the Beach to the Sea, this BD figure will perform an acid poetic commentary on the fools’ debate right and left about the BURKINI.
We doff our burkinis in his honor!
Black Scat Fiction Hit
RAVE!
Praise has been pouring in for the novel HERE LIES MEMORY by Doug Rice. Here’s an excerpt from the latest in ANGEL CITY REVIEW by John Venegas:
“Mr. Rice has accomplished something incredibly difficult and has done so with superlative skill. He has made the surreal feel real, he has blurred the lines between the macrocosm and the microcosm, and he has somehow managed to contribute to the conversation of trauma and abuse in a manner that is not only unprecedented but which feels entirely necessary. Here Lies Memory is a fantastic work that will require multiple reads to fully process and will never make you regret picking it up.”
CLICK HERE to read the full text of this rave review,
CLICK HERE to order the book on Amazon
MEMORY AND THE SPIRIT OF PLACE
“In HERE LIES MEMORY Doug Rice loves his characters wondrously, keenly, completely, and the result is a novel at once stunningly beautiful, brilliant, fierce, crazily imaginative, and acutely wise about how the ghosts that our memories and words invent are often the last things to leave us, no matter what, how some stay so deep in our skin they become as real as its color — especially those that can damage and mend us most.” —Lance Olsen, author of THEORIES OF FORGETTING
HERE LIES MEMORY explores the place of memory in living, daily, scarred and sacred lives. Two Pittsburgh families struggle to survive trauma and love. A man wills himself to go blind, not to forget, but to remember in new ways. Another man drinks beer after beer until he can no longer drink away what he must face directly. This novel reveals what language and photographs do to memory, desire, and love, and what gentrification is doing to the souls of families and neighborhoods.
MORE ADVANCE PRAISE for Doug Rice’s stunning new novel:
“Covering all of the bases in this novel bent on conveying a deep love for the city and the people of Pittsburgh, Doug Rice ultimately makes our lives feel more dignified, loved, no matter if our local language and essence of being have become displaced. I’ve got no words for what Rice accomplishes. Just that, he beautifully brings to light everything in The ‘Burgh – and in places of the heart – that was done in the dark.”
—Ricardo Cortez Cruz, author of STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
“How does memory write us? What fictions haunt our bodies and lives, and what truths do we construct to carry the weight of our selves? Doug Rice designs a brutally beautiful helix from dual narratives woven by and through love and loss. Between blindness and insight there live characters who, like all of us, story a way to go on in the face of buildings decaying, cities disappearing, hearts and bodies slipping toward ghost. Mother, sister, wife, grandfather, grandson, girl, boy…all identities move through desire, love, memory, and language in a place called Pittsburgh. Reading this book made my skin sing, my heart wail, a secular hymn of the body. “
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN
***Available now worldwide on Amazon***
LUCKY DADA
Deadline for the “DADA Forgery” issue of Black Scat Review is October 15th.
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