A modern psychedelic Tom Sawyer-type named Radkin runs away from home, to seek his muse by writing a book just like he would build a fireplace, a sturdy structure in which to conjure a flickering warmth to enchant a lady.
New !
The Astral Pages is an anthology of nine stories that resonate Magical Realism. Also includes conversational interviews with each author. Some of the stories filled with magic, others will bring out the magic in you. The authors are Reggie Oliver, Ruthie Marlenée, Steve Aylett, Jim Matthews, Eric D. Lehman, Anthony Abelaye, John Shirley, Jim Cherry, and Bill Ectric.
Written by P. S. Russell.
Published proudly by Bill Ectric.
A Beginner’s Guide to Electricity is literary fiction for boomers, freaks, Deadheads, environmentalists, artists, musicians, and those who love language.
A modern psychedelic Tom Sawyer type named Radkin runs away from home, to seek his muse by writing a book just like he would build a fireplace, a sturdy structure in which to conjure a flickering warmth to enchant a lady.
He crisscrosses Appalachia in an Econoline van with a steam engine styled band, volunteers at a turtle preserve in the Caribbean, and is hired as night watchmen at a veterinary hospital in Vermont where he grows pot in an adjacent forest. He also gi ves piano lessons to a retired mafioso psychiatrist, Dr. Zuckerman, who has hired a mercenary lawyer- and his young associate- to help him build a state-of-the-art nursing home in the same forest where Radkin grows his crop.
When a bumbling DEA agent is assigned to investigate a suspicious thermal image suggesting a patch of illegal cannabis, both Radkin and his piano student find themselves in a bind…
The style is influenced by A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Farina, The Fan Man by Kotzwinkle, and Inherent Vice by Pynchon.
Retail: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Thrift Books
Stores and libraries: Ingram Content Group
ISBN 979-8-218-58558-7
322 Pages
Paperback: Perfect Bound
5.25 x .73 x 8 inches
P. S. Russell was published in his high school and college literary magazines, then spent 40 years practicing law while writing this book. He is a musician and has reviewed music online under the name of Hambone Sparklewell. This is his first novel.
Roger and Whit are childhood friends who want to be paranormal investigators. Something paranormal begins tampering with Whit’s brain, which he controls with drugs, alcohol, and screaming skulls.
Written by Bill Ectric / Illustrated by Nick Dunkenstein
The weird world of Bill Ectric. Short fiction by Bill. Essays on writers of weird fiction, including interviews with James Morrow, Doug Skinner, and Jeff VanderMeer.
Bill reviews vintage horror anthologies from the 60s and 70s.
Essay: Transcending Time and Space in Silko’s Ceremony.
Essay: The importance of blurbs and reviews as Consumer Tutorials for experimental writing.
Deconstructing civilization in Dracula, and more.
Cover: Details of the Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brunidi. Photo courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol. The three details on the cover are arranged by Bill Ectric to represent, in his mind, 1. Themes (somebody writing), 2. Dreams (the id’s wish-fulfillment), and 3. Weems (Mason Weems, not pictured, created the cherry tree story about George Washington, pictured.
Whimsical, surreal, and sometimes deeply stirring, The Symbolic Play Chapbook is a project Bill Ectric crafted for a Hybrid Poetry course led by Dr. Jessica C. Stark at the University of North Florida in 2022. Hybrid Poetry simply means mixing poetry with other mediums like art, graphics, historical documents, or anything, in a way that the parts fit together organically.
34 pages, 6 x 9, color illustrations.
British author Steve Aylett writes in multiple genres, usually simultaneously, combining elements of science fiction and fantasy with comedy and a high literary aesthetic. As a result of his unique style, Aylett has garnered throngs of devotees in underground circles. Some say he is too clever and grandiloquent for genre readers, and too genre for literary readers, infusing his meta-pulp fictions with intricate networks of hi-tech and/or bizarre novums. Like J. G. Ballard, Aylett belies, if not capsizes, formulaic methods and ultimately constitutes a genre in and of himself. This book offers a comprehensive commentary and analysis of his singular body of work, including original essays by D. Harlan Wilson, Spencer Pate, Bill Ectric, Andrew Wenaus, Iain Matheson, Robert Kiely, Jim Matthews, John Oakes, Michael Norris, Tony Lee, Sam Reader; commentary by Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock, and an interview with Aylett by Rachel Haywire.
Emanations 11
Includes Part 3 of the Special Agent Penny Turin trilogy by Bill Ectric
The latest volume of International Authors’ literary anthology series, Emanations 11 presents stunning art, illustrations and writing from around the world. Over five-hundred pages long, this new book sustains International Authors’ commitment to innovation and experimentation: challenging visual pieces, intriguing artists’ statements, idiosyncratic memoirs, candid academic reflections, astute poetic expressions and cutting-edge speculative fiction. The forty-three contributors represent Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Oman, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
Published by International Authors
Emanations, Volume 8, Octo-Emanations, includes the second Bill Ectric short story featuring Special Agent Penny Turin, “The Psychogeography of the Gnostic Phalanx Society.”
The eighth volume of the critically acclaimed Emanations literary anthology series, Octo-Emanations presents stunning new art, illustrations, and writing from around the world. The forty-two contributors represent South Korea, Canada, India, Oman, Kenya, Nepal, France, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Kosovo, Spain, the Philippines, Sweden, Japan, and the United States. Comprising a broad range of perspectives, this edition also includes a special new section featuring visual fine arts pieces with artists’ statements, making it one of the most exciting projects of the International Authors publishing house to date.
International Authors’ fifth collection of fiction, poetry, and essays, Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5 presents the work of sixty writers and artists from around the world. Edited by Carter Kaplan.
Includes the first short story with Special Agent Penny Turin, “Dr. Waxwing’s Hotel of Rooms” by Bill Ectric
In the mid-1990s, popular interest in Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,
William S. Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, and the rest of the colorful, profane gang of “Beats” exploded around the United States of America and the entire world.
Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, stood at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. Beats in Time includes Levi Asher’s account of auditioning for Francis Ford Coppola’s movie version of On The Road. Don Carpenter reminisces about a 1964 poetry reading with Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Lew Welch. Lee Renaldo interviews William S. Burroughs. Joseph Matheny interviews Diane DiPrima. Bill Ectric interviews legendary musical composer David Amram, and more.
Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age
Edited by Levi Asher, Jamelah Earle, and Caryn Thurman
Published by AuthorHouse, 09/23/2004
Action Poetry roars forth with the energy and unpredictability of an online flash mob, with the words of more than fifty new writers who came together on the Literary Kicks website, Action Poetry will is meant to be enjoyed, read aloud, puzzled over, but not forgotten. Foreword by David Amram, who quotes Walter Pater’s famous dictum “An artist must burn with a hard and gemlike flame.”
Pattern Recognition No. 1 contains short fiction by Jeff B Willey, Eugene A. Melino, Patrick King, M.K. Punky, R.W. Watkins, M.P. Powers, Leigh Baker, Bill Ectric and Chelsey Burden; poetry by Anthony Robinson, Jessica Tremblay, and Angelos T. Anastasopolos; a review of Brian Campbell’s Shimmer Report; an interview with legendary Fantagraphics cartoonist J.R. Williams; R.H. Crawford on Bond and the 1960s spy craze; comics by Gordon Lindholm and Bill Harvey; and more.
Kerouacs Rolle is a German edition of Time Adjusters and Other Stories, translated into German by Erni Bär in 2007. The title is from another story in the book, “Cut Up the Stolen Scroll”.
