Far West Press – förlag

Do you feel it? I'm holding your hand. Come with me. Look! There's a mirror, many mirrors! They are watching us, but we don't have to care. This night belongs to us. This infinity. Come! ... World! Just watch us...as we prowl the arcades of fallen memory...

A book of advanced humor. A book written for those who dread letter writing. 

From the minds of Kansas Bowling and Parker Love Bowling, Prewritten Letters for Your Convenience, was initially written by the authors when they were 11 and 8 years of age. They compiled prewritten letters and this collection has the letters one could ever possibly need. 

For mid-level band, The Night Collectors, embarking on a tour of the UK as the British government tightens its control over the country and its citizens, leads the four members to reminisce over intoxicated memories of a decadent touring life and to consider how such a drastic retrogression has beset the country they call home.

Amongst the many excessive regulations implemented, is a restriction preventing artists from travelling and touring outside of the country, a distant death rattle sounds.

Following a violent catalytic event that plunges the band into a period of isolation and despair, the addictions and dependencies of a life lived on the road spark the deterioration of the band's outspoken and agitational lead singer. Is the only remaining answer a desperate act of retribution?

Rhododendron, Rhododendron welcomes you into the world of a young girl desperate for love, beauty, and an escape from the excruciating ennui of growing up. As intimate as a diary, but far less honest, Rhododendron, Rhododendron reads as a dark comedy and a pop-art anthem, sprinkled with references from Gregory Peck to Linda Manz. Parker Love Bowling's debut poetry collection takes you on a journey that transcends time as she navigates her feelings about old lovers, old films, old men, and impending womanhood. Though as bleak as the words on the pages may be, Bowling does everything in her power to retain the writing's beauty, as well as her own.

Cherry Wagon is a spiritual pilgrimage built for speed. Jack is a young ballet instructor driving warp speed through the night sky in search of his son, Blue.

Fueled by diesel, nicotine and tragedian humility, we navigate the cosmos through his fractured correspondence with "Jane," the only person who "gets it."

What lies ahead on this odyssey are trips down the color spectrum, brief (often comical) meditations on America, and pie.

Cherry Wagon is the lightning quick debut novel by Joseph Matick.

Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances is a pop meditation on a number of themes: speed, delirium and distance, disillusion, urbanity, various manifestations of the idea of the wilderness and the wasteland, madness, dissolution, memory, mourning, forgetting, hauntology, hauntings, rapid transits, the non-existent, and conjuring the future.  The work mixes magic, culture, mystery, memoir, history, melodrama - it is an invocation, an evocation, with dreamlike freedom of movement between past and present, from personal to universal.

Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for a breakfast, a reflection on what it was really like to be there (you know where). From someone who was.