CPR for Dummies by Mickey Z

$5 off hardcover

$2 off paperbacks

The world is creeping towards destruction — no, not theoretically — it’s really happening. In these last hours will humanity come together to correct their collective wrongs? Or will there be rampant beatings and kinky sex?

My Landlady the Lobotomist
by Eckhard Gerdes

$4 off hardcover

$2 off paperbacks

The brains of past tenants line the shelves of my boarding house, soaking in a mysterious elixir. I’m pretty sure something has infected my gray matter. One more slip-up and the landlady might just add my frontal lobe to her collection.

The May/June of American Book Review has a fantastic, in-depth review of Dr. Identity. Here's a quote:
This book's better'n the bushelfull of Benzedrine-spiked donut holes with which Dr. Identity tries to bribe his students into civilized demeanor! Pomo cybertheory never tasted so good or made you fly this high! Buy this book before the BEM's attack!

View Tom Bradley's hilarious reading of Chapter 2 from Lemur.

You can also see his appearance on Lair of the Yak where he answers all the viewers burning questions.

Darin Malfi was on hand at Twilight Comics during Free Comic Book Day to promote his books including A Child's Guide to Death.

July 10 • 7pm
Chicago Bizarro Fiction Fest!
Quimby’s bookstore in Chicago’s Wicker Park
Eckhard Gerdes, author of My Landlady the Lobotomist
D. Harlan Wilson, author of Dr. Identity
Reading & Signing:
David Agranoff, co-editor of The Vault of Punk Horror
Garret Cook, author of Murderland

July 17-20
ReaderCon Burlington Marriott, MA
Debut of Adam Golaski's collection Worse Than Myself
"A strong collection with enough variation to keep readers riveted from the first story to the last."—Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain

August 15-17
HorrorFind Weekend UMUC Marriott Convention Center, Adelphi, MD

readings by: Michael Arnzen, Adam Golaski, John Edward Lawson, Donna Lynch, Ronald Damien Malfi, Matthew Warner, D. Harlan Wilson

RDSP 5 Year Anniverary Party Saturday Night!

Your novel uses many different narrative techniques including first person observations, quizzes and even comments from the author. Why did you choose to tell the story this way?

I guess I was going for a vibe that better replicated “real” life. We exist amidst a swirl of perceptions, perspectives, contradictions, and voices. Also, it was often easier and smoother to move the story (as it were) along using this method.

CPR for Dummies is full of quirky and unexpected characters. Who is your favorite and why?
Hmm...well, among many others, there’s the guy who faked his death on 9/11, and the priest that loves porn, an elderly female exhibitionist, the sentimental kickboxer, and let’s not forget the homeless prophet. But I’d say JC has to be my favorite. Her sweet, nerdy, sexy, radical soul is the center of the book...not counting the humongous asteroid, of course.

Do you often use real incidents in your writing?
Absolutely. Sometimes verbatim. Sometimes enhanced. Sometimes, I use historical incidents to create both context and confusion. I try not to be constrained by literary convention and CPR FOR DUMMIES is perhaps my most dramatic flaunting of the proverbial rules.

You've been called "A professional iconoclast," by Newsday and a "Political Provocateur," by Time Out New York. What makes you such a controversial figure?
Good question. I don’t wear black; I don’t smoke, drink, or do drugs—nor do I sleep till noon (I rarely stay up past 10:30 at night). My organically-fueled body is free of tattoos and piercings, I do not own a weapon or belong to a sect, and I am happily married for 14 years. However, while my “vices” aren’t drugs or guns or mysticism or sexual deviance (okay, a little sexual deviance), my lifestyle is ultimately far more controversial to the establishment. I don’t eat their food or worship their god or embrace their government. I also don’t take their medicines or use their deodorants, colognes, toothpastes, etc.; I don’t have their accepted academic credentials; and I don’t engage in conspicuous consumption or create unnecessary waste. In addition, I try not to purchase items I know to be made by slave or sweatshop labor. In other words, if everyone were suddenly like me, the corporate commodity culture would vanish overnight. This simple reality makes me far more menacing and radical than I first appear.