book stuff

Nightwork
A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson

I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby!: Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
By Bill Sloan

Medicine Road #1
By Charles de Lint
Excerpt Available (79k PDF)
Illustrated by Charles Vess.

A Kayak Full of Ghosts
Eskimo Tales
collected and retold by Lawrence Millman
illustrated by Timothy White


Scottish Traveller Tales
Lives Shaped through Stories
By Donald Braid the only full-length study that analyzes the stories of the Travelling People (tinkers)


Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects

Edited by John Bell

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and, for the whole host of just plain weird books: Eraserhead Press Catalogue

features stuff like

Teeth and Tongue Landscape
written by Carlton Mellick III, illustrated by Brian Doogan

In a world made out of meat, a socially-obsessive monophobic man finds himself to be the last human being on the face of the planet. Desperate for social interaction, he explores the landscape of flesh and blood, teeth and tongue, trying to befriend any strange creature or community that he comes across.

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SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN?
a novel by Kevin L. Donihe

"It illuminates. It demonizes. It pulls the strings of the puppets controlling the strangest of passion plays within a corporate structure. Everyone, every thing is a target of Mr. Donihe’s wit and off-kilter worldview . . . There are shades of Philip K. Dick’s wonderfully inventive The Divine Invasion (minus the lurid pop singer), trading up Zen Buddhism for unconscious Gnosticism. Malachi manifests where Elijah would stand revealed; and the Roald Dahl-like midgets hold the pink laser beam shining into our hero’s mind. Religion is lambasted under the scrutiny of Corporate money- crunchers, and nothing is what it seems." - From the introduction by Jeffrey A. Stadt.