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Archive for March, 2008

Coming soon: The Worst Book I Ever Read

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The Unbearables have taken potshots at their literary Fathers, the Beats (Crimes of the Beats), and trashed the entire genre of Self-Help books (which they probably should have read first), in Help Yourself! Now, in their fourth anthology, they aim their finely-honed wrecking ball at the tottering edifice of ‘Contemporary Lit,’ […]

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Now available from Unbearable Books

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts
by Carl Watson
In the warped underworld of Uptown Chicago, two petty thieves, Jack and Vince, Dostoevskyan in their criminal use of philosophy, exalting in the stealing of art as the highest human act, meet their target, their nemesis and their double: Madame Little-Ease, a Satanic Grandma Moses, who paints on refuse […]

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