::: EDITIONS ::: as producer/editor DENNIS is a collaborative, limited-edition, Story-Booklet & CD. Each booklet and CD is packaged in a hand-numbered, beautifully-designed Arigato Pak, with red letterpress and black offset printing. Purchase DENNIS from AK Press. Dennis Cooper's original story The Ash Gray Proclamation (titled after the Robert Pollard song of the same name) was passed around to a variety of bands and musicians — those Cooper loved or those that were already fans of his work. Four years in the making, DENNIS showcases fourteen songs by musicians who have been inspired by the author and, in many instances, directly influenced by the accompanying story. Featuring the music of: Robert Pollard - Richard Hell - Xiu Xiu - Feller Quentin - Victor Krummenacher - FDS - Jeremy Gloff - Stephen Prina - Perspects - Kennedy - Pig Destroyer - New Wet Kojak - Eddie Ruscha - and a collaborative piece by Peter Rehberg and Dennis Cooper. CLICK HERE for more information. ::: PREVIOUSLY Released Projects ::: as publisher/editor Versus Press was a small literary press founded in 2000. During its years, Versus released some extraordinary novels and produced, with Substandard Records, a benefit album for the Prison Literature Project in Berkeley, California. Reviews and coverage of Versus and Versus-related projects have appeared with great acclaim in The Washington Post, The LA Weekly, Paper, Noise, Shout NY, SOMA, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Reader, Giant Robot, Alternative Press, Punk Planet and The Portland Mercury, with additional coverage in Salon.com, The Education Digest and Poets & Writers. *** KITESTRINGING: THE PRISON LITERATURE PROJECT BENEFIT "Even the most hardcore death penalty supporters have to support the Prison Literature Project, which distributes books to the incarcerated — not pornos or hunting mags but real food for thought like Nietzsche, Darwin, Chomsky and Cometbus..." —Giant Robot 22 tracks - Featuring the music of: Propagandhi - Tribe 8 - Jenny Toomey - American Steel - The Weakerthans - The Blank Fight - The Atomiks - White Collar Crime - Young People - The Plus Ones - Low Water - Big In Japan - Jeremy Gloff - The Dishes - ing - The Aislers Set - Chumbawamba - The Smugglers - The Specs - The Rum Diary ...with spoken word pieces by Noam Chomsky and Ward Churchill. Artwork by Eric Drooker and prisoners. PURCHASE the PLP Album from AK PRESS. *** USER by Blake Nelson "Blake Nelson portrays the gritty youth culture of KIDS with the dialogue of a David Mamet play. Dark, funny and deadly accurate, User is Nelson's most boldly successful literary effort." —Douglas Rushkoff "Like a Less Than Zero set in the post-grunge aftermath of the Pacific Northwest, User catalogs the desperate actions of a nihilistic urban hipster class that operates on a different level from the rest of society. It's all here, from the rough sex to the drug experimentation to the see-saw ride of friendship in a hormonally-charged, music-drenched underworld." —Seattle Weekly -> Published in Poland by ZYSK Books -> Nelson's latest book, Paranoid Park, has been made into a film by Gus Van Sant. Look for it. If you're interested in obtaining rare, signed, limited-edition copies of USER, please get in touch. Very few available. *** GRAND CANYON, INC. by Percival Everett "Grand Canyon, Inc. [is] slight, absurd and consistently funny." —The Washington Post "Grand Canyon, Inc. parodies the American rags-to-riches dream, exposing its seamy and dysfunctional underbelly. With characters ranging from ex-witness protection Zen Masters to a man who can push a pin into his head, it is lively and exuberant. Everett [is] a writer with multiple concerns and a wide stylistic range, one never willing to fall into a box, one capable of doing almost anything." —Brian Evenson, Rain Taxi Review of Books -> Shortlisted for a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award -> Out of print