Here’s an issue you’ll party with like there’s no tomorrow. It’s filled to the brim with a stellar cast of artists, writers, poets & translators. 150 pages of avant-garde goodness – plus 42 contributors from around the world.
Featuring: Alphonse Allais; Terry Bradford; George Chappell; Georges-Oliver Châteaureynaud; Alex Cigale; Charles Cros; Milo De Angelis; Vojislav Despotov; Shawn Garrett; Edward Gauvin; Eckhard Gerdes; André Gill; Dana Golan; Émile Goudeau; Franz Hellens; Hogarth, Jr.; Vasyl Khmeliuk; Amy Kurman; George MacLennan; Paul Madsack; Dmitri Manin; Scott Marshall; Jim McMenamin; Ainsley Morse; Ethan Persoff; James Reidel; Michel Robic; Albert Robida; Paul Rosheim; Igor Satanovsky; Erik Satie; Serge Segay; Doug Skinner; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Lawrence Venuti; Antoine Volodine; Louis Wain; Gregory Wallace; Alyson Waters; Maria Luise Weissmann; and Nikolay Zabolotsky.
Don’t miss this one, folks – Sweet 16 comes only once in a lifetime.
We’re pleased to present the 14th title in our Pocket Erotica series — a must-have edition for fans of Oulipo and innovative literature.
Oulipo’s interactive concept of “tree literature” was first implemented by Raymond Queneau in his short story “Un conte à votre façon” (A Story as You Like It). In this wickedly clever (and very funny) variation, Kim Vodicka follows in Queneau’s hallowed footsteps with a do-it-yourself text that’s guaranteed to satisfy all-comers.
In A Dirty Story as You Like It, the reader chooses from multiple plots, navigates the course to a satisfying climax, or changes direction whenever the urge strikes. Do all roads lead to ecstasy? Who knows, who cares, because getting there is half the fun.
Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration, “a softer-spoken, more genteel Lydia Lunch,” according to The Houston Press. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections—most recently, The Elvis Machine (CLASH Books, 2020) and Dear Ted (Really Serious Literature, forthcoming 2022). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including a poetic comic book, a 7” vinyl EP of sound poems, and a book of poetry illustrated by various artists local to Memphis. Additionally, she is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of artist grants from PEN America, Poets & Writers, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Authors League Fund. Her poems, prose, and visual art have been featured in The Thought Erotic, The New Urge Reader 4, SPREAD, Harbinger Asylum, Forbidden Futures, Best American Experimental Writing, and many others. For the past decade, she has toured the nation performing spoken word with rock’n’roll accompaniment in venues both illustrious and disreputable, including the legendary Sun Studio. Originally from South Louisiana, she lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her beloved cat, Lula.
