New Releases by Kevin Postupack

Collected short stories

not since Jack London''s Martin Eden a century before has an American writer delivered such an uncompromising broadside against the money-hungry monolith of the publishing industry. begun in October of 2003 & completed in March of 2012 angrynastyhostile is a haymaker a knock-out punch, both hilarious & deadly serious angrynastyhostile takes place in a single moment as a writer steps up to the podium to accept (or reject) a prestigious literary award. what follows are the permutations of the mind of an artist: the art of digression, a dissenting voice, an impassioned outcry, a fulminating tirade, a contemplation, examination, vivisection of what it means to be alive & kicking at this exact moment in time

Quentin Antoine, who struggles mightily to get out of bed, travels freely in his mind (philosophically speaking) as he tries to discover the reason for his own existence. With a critical eye bordering on pathological he dissects the slightest phenomena as he searches for a clue. Inspired by Sartre''s La Naus e, Still Life with Abyss chronicles Quentin Antoine''s adventures of the mind as he eventually makes his way to Paris, to cooking school, and to his surprising true calling.

It''s the bottom of the ninth, the Mudville Nine are down 4-2 with two outs as Casey steps to the plate. What follows is an apocalyptic retelling of an American folk taleNa story of violence through generations at the heart of the American dream, from the 19th century to the present day, of a people shaped by brutality, and the "better angels of our nature" becoming the killer-devils.