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WHAT’S THAT? NEW RELEASES! (2026)

“You put a phantom gun to your head enough times, you learn how to dream. Or vice versa.”

In Frank Dreams, take a trip with me through…

1) the French language and what it means for U.S.-European relations
2) a new method for poetry composition involving attentive relaxation
3) my quite harrowing experience as a substitute after having taught for three years and…
4) the verbatim recording of my sleeping consciousness

Paperback, $17
Hardcover, $23

ACHILLES
I want to live like the best art does:
flirting with its own destruction, knowing
to die is to give to nature for once.

A love letter to Greek mythos and an epic parody, Play Achilles takes another look at what happened as the ten-year Trojan War winded down, with major themes of violence in gaming, the work-life balance, and the subtle effects of discord on the deepest friendships.

Also Ulysses is The Wire’s Detective McNulty fixing a body.

Paperback, $15
Hardcover, $20

During halftime of the big game, Ben Wilkes walks in on his coach holding a dead body. Coach tells him they can’t tell a soul. But someone is hiding in the stall, and Ben is in love with the coach’s daughter.

From Behind Dotted Clouds is a coming-of-age story set in the fictional town of Alma, Wyoming, where a dozen teenagers navigate the aftermath of a pariah’s death.

A love letter to small-town America, with overarching themes of friendship, race, and sexuality, this novel attempts to paint how rumor bridges generations.

Paperback, $17
Hardcover, $23

2025

Hey! Maybe you have an idea. Take this book and report back. I guarantee you bring me joy! Hardcover. Paperback.

2024

DIOGENES
No, no, no, no, no! It is just man now,
Naked on the eve of becoming.
You wanted me to lead tonight? Listen.
Crickets chirp. Even lunar Diana
Is gone. She herself has banished woman. Why won’t you? But hear. Hear.
The grove whispers.

Kindle $7
Paperback $10
Hardcover $17 (recommended!)

SCHOPENHAUER
My swift imagination outs with light!
Reason is gone. Behold my fright!

GOETHE
A fright is nothing but a friend in need.
Will you help me, though a ghost I be?

Kindle $7
Paperback $10
Hardcover $17 (recommended!)

2023

Kindle $10
Paperback $13
Hardcover $20

Explaining his Time Machine to Adam—the anti-freeze, the circulatory pump, the gigawatt radiator, the clutch, the transmission—Zeus laugh-sighs and says, “I don’t know if you’re getting tired of me.”