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The Facility by Michael Mirolla

December 2010

What to do with Mussolini clones that refuse to stay dead.
How to cope with the power to re-create others forever.
How to lead a “normal” life when memory and identity are no longer unique. What to do when time means nothing and no one can distinguish real from simulacra.

Trapped inside The Facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final convulsive death rattle on a prion-infected Earth, Fausto struggles to recreate the world he once knew of family and friendship.

And Yet They Were Happy by Helen Phillips

April 2011

A young couple sets out to build a life in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing--but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar. 

"Brilliant miniatures...[Phillips'] quietly elegant sentences are as clear as spring water, haunting as our own childhood memories." --Michael Dirda

"A deeply interesting mind is at work in these wry, lyrical stories." --Amy Hempel

"Haunted and lyrical and edible all at once." --Rivka Galchen

Something to Say profiles by Richard Klin; photographs by Lily Prince

May 2011

The fusion of art and politics is axiomatic outside the US. In America, their relationship is erratic. This book profiles, in words and photos, disparate creative forces who offer thoughts on their point of engagement with the political sphere. Those profiled include poets; a painter, chef, comedian, filmmaker, cartoonist, and screenwriter; and two iconic 20th-century figures, Pete Seeger and Howard Zinn.

"Klin is an insightful interviewer and a marvelous writer." --Bloomsbury Review