Current Releases
Cancer As A Social Activity: Affirmations of the World's End - Second Edition SOLD OUTby Michael IX Williams
The much awaited first official collection of writings by notorious performer/songwriter Michael D. Williams, entitled "Cancer as a Social Activity" is now available through Southern Roots Publishing. The lyricist for New Orleans metal/punk legends EyehateGod, whose prolific recorded output has gained a mighty cult following since its inception in 1988, Mr. Williams has been long cited as "a decadent pioneer "and "a Hardcore blues prophet". The one true mouth of the disenfranchised underground scene. His fragmentary hallucinogenic outlook has been described as illegitimate coupling of the downtrodden gutter-life beauty of Charles Bukowski ,crossed with William Burroughsian's cutup cerebral style. Survival is a key word here as battles with asthma, poverty, drugs, and law enforcement have only served to make him and his writing stronger. more...
Another South: Experimental Writing in the Southby Bill Lavender
This collection gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets, deepening understanding of modern poetry and poetics.
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at once universal in its appeal and regional in its flavor. more...
Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream NationEdited by Larry McCaffery
Avant-Pop is innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave. They include cult figures in the pop underground (Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Tim Ferret, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe), important new writers who have gained prominence since the late eighties (Mark Leyner, Eurudice, William T. Vollmann), and the most promising new kids on the block ("rap fiction" master Ricardo Cortez Cruz謡inner of the 1992 Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction預nd Doug Rice, whose obscenely obsessive, Faulkner-meets-Acker prose is showcased here for the first time). more...
Degenerative ProseEdited by Mark Amerika, Ronald Sukenick
Degenerative Prose is outlaw writing with a terrorist heart. The missives published here represent an explosive mix of avant-pop fiction, e-mail viruses, anti-aesthetic manifestoes, dissident comix, aberrant essays, eloquent rants, mock interviews, and phony contributor notes. An interventionist attack on the banality of mainstream culture, Degenerative Prose tears down the reign of genre and dares the reader to use these previously unpublished narrative strategies to deconstruct all the digital hype permeating the sonic landscape. A witches' brew of cult-writing stirs within these pages, more...
The Fast Red Road: A Plainsongby Stephen G. Jones
The Fast Red Road輸 Plainsong is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a story fueled on pot fumes and blues, borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional western. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as interchangeable as their outfits; men strike poses from Gunsmoke, and horses are traded for Trans-Ams. Pidgin, the half-blood protagonist, inhabits a world of illusion熔f aliens, ghosts, telekinesis, and water-pistol violence謡here television offers redemption, and "the Indian always gets it up the ass." more...
The Kafka Chroniclesby Mark Amerika
The Kafka Chronicles is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters a cast of angry yet sensual characters: Alkaloid Boy and Blue Sky, an inconspicuous and loving couple who find themselves subjected to constant government harassment; General Psyche and his sidekick Major Uptight, the military officers responsible for controlling the media upon briefing room during the Gulf War; King Bohemia, a guerilla-artist who hosts wild orgies; and, of course, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one day and finds himself living in the eco-anarchy of postmodern America. more...
Sexual Bloodby Mark Amerika
Taking off from the cult-success of his first novel, The Kafka Chronicles, Mark Amerika's breakthrough second novel, Sexual Blood, is a wild trip through the dark side of America's media-manipulated consciousness. His main character, Mal, an alternative rock musician, has a strange encounter with the Medicine Woman which causes him to hallucinate in a fantasy land populated by all of his former lovers. Mal, hoping to repent for all of the emotional damage he's caused in the past, seeks a magic transfusion that will turn him into a compassionate human being; this is when he enters the realm of the Sexual Blood. more...
Soul Resinby Charles Cannon
Soul Resin is a southern gothic horror novel with a postmodern bent. Set here in the Crescent City, it plumbs the dark mysteries that lurk among the layers of the city's past. Mills Loomis Mills, an edgy college dropout at the center of the story, finds his life intertwined with a remarkable assemblage of characters傭oth living and dead預fter his girlfriend is murdered and he begins to hear what he believes is the arcane language of spilled blood. In the space of three days謡ith 150 years of history whispering in his ears柚ills unleashes a supernatural disaster that Faulkner would call "a terrible bloody mischancing of human events." more...