Böcker utgivna av Drag City

Back in print for the first time this era is David Berman s Actual Air. Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry, David Berman s first (and only) book of poetry is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, and updated full-colour endpapers.

Musician, poet and cartoonist David Berman's first collection of illustrations.

Comedian/Writer/Producer Lesley Arfin, author of the incendiary Dear Diary book and writer for the equally eruptive shows Girls, Awkward., Betty and Love (the latter two of which she co-created) drops her first graphic art collection. Plumbing the ambiguous depths of real life trouble with glittery reflections on gender, weather, feminism, fantasy and failure, Lesley lovingly renders her un-safe spaces in a nostalgic riot of watercolor, gauche, acrylic, fiber and collage.

After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the trurh of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade. After Math begins where Art, Mystery, the first installment in Mr. Thompson's two-part novel, left off. The chrome trader Perlat Tile has just witnessed the criminal Pablo Palbon attempt to smuggle a small erotic bronze by Pollaiuolo out of Tirana disguised as a funeral urn. The ensuing trial - described in After Math - pits the gallerist Ms. Jasmine, who wants to acquire the work legitimately, against the state of Albania, which also claims ownership of it. Written in the impeccable prose that we have come to expect from Mr. Thompson, After Math proves that what happens after a plot is foiled can be just as delightful as the action itself." - Michael Sanchez

Shorty's Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between singer Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on work by Oldham and musician Matt Sweeney. Drawing inspiration from the story of Noah, Shorty's Ark names and pictures a wild variety of species to inform and engage an equal variety of young minds with the diversity that can be found around this great planet of ours. The flood stands as metaphor for current impending changes in our planet, and the story works as a springboard for understanding concepts of interdependency, diversity and extinction. Colorfully illustrating as many creatures and their places as possible, Shorty's Ark is an earth-affirmative vision meant to stimulate the curiosity and passion of those who encounter it.

The dedicated producers-cum-art-collective PFFR (Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy and Jim Tozzi) have been at large for what seems like we wish was forever. Their nightmare visions, as realized in Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, Final Flesh and The Heart She Holler, to name less than a handful, have provided the world a stream of images that amount to no less than a cautionary tale - and a lot more, for those whole like to laugh and enjoy their sense of ambiguity shaken, not stirred. The images here made around the time they were spitballing the material that was going to become Wonder Showzen.

This reprinting of Korine''s first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art; but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-colour jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol'' world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least.