The Unbearables are a loose collective of noir humorists, beer mystics, anarchists, neophobes and passionate debunkers.
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,’ […]
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 […]
New from Unbearable Books; Mike Topp’s Shorts Are Wrong, a scintillating collection of brightly polished bits in his trademark humorously laconic style.
This and other Unbearables Books are available from Autonomedia.
Many of the Unbearables had their work anthologized in the beautifully produced oversized volumn entitled Up Is Up But So Is Down. What follows is a review of that book by Anitta Santiago.
Up Is Up But So Is Down, Ed. Brandon Stosuy, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006. $29.95
Up Is Up But […]
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