No Bile! is now available from Black Scat Books! This is my 8th translation of the peerless French proto-dadaist Alphonse Allais (1854-1905). This collection of what he called his “anthumous works” includes love stories, revenge stories, short-shorts, and unclassifiable prose, all affronting the reader with startlingly modern black humor, imagination, and wordplay. Among the highlights […]

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I found this tear sheet in an old copy of Treasure Island. The header reads “The Red-Headed Periodical”; a search only yields one hit, as a subtitle to Ziff’s Magazine, a joke magazine published by William B. Ziff. So maybe that’s where it came from. Here’s the recipe, for those summer parties. (Posted by Doug […]

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We have another edition of “Authors.” This one has no indication of date or publisher; it comes in a sober black box, with faint gold lettering identifying it as “The Game of Authors,” and promising “Playing Card Quality.” Each author is given a halftone portrait and a simple red border. The roster here, in addition […]

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