"Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal with a wild girl writer, a white trash genius and a limousine full of angry teenagers. His protagonists scratch at the bottom of society desperate to maintain delusions of adequacy. They fall into each other with hat ..."
"The Cheaters Clint Mayer is a big man with big dreams. Or so he thinks. When Clint leaves Beaverkill for the rough and tumble dock town of Wilton, he hooks up with Charlie Fletcher, good time saloon owner and businessman. One of the businesses Charlie runs out of the bar involves a string of working girls, but he has to pay off Detective Red Brandon and it's wearing him down. He's had enough. Clint agrees to buy him out, but th ..."
"William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as You Bright and Risen Angels, The Royal Family, and Rising Up and Rising Downâhis latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour-de-forceâhave launched him into the literary stratosphere. He stands today as one of America's leading contenders for a future Nobel Prize in literature. Here is his long-awaited "best-of" collection, intended both as an introduction fo ..."
"Michael Hemmingson's fantasy of the absurd and the weird calls to mind such great works as Gunter Grass's "The Tin Drum," Robert Coover's "The Public Burning," Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle," and Richard Brautigan's "Trout ..."
"This collection of horror stories will slap you in the face, kick you in the teeth and burn cigarette holes in your couch. These stories of pool halls, whiskey, junkies, and angel-tinged lunacy reach to the edge of human endurance and push all the harder. A detective wakes up in a shallow grave with a bullet hole in his chest and a taste for brains. A drug dealer tortures the privileged. A whorehouse keeps a strange "pet" and a man disc ..."
The Rose of Heaven(First Edition) (Hardback) by MichaelHemmingson Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2004 by Prime ISBN-13: 978-1-930997-54-7, ISBN: 1-930997-54-X
"The Rose of Heaven is a tale of the abuse of and desire for power, and the many ways we human beings inflict violence on our fellow creatures. The year is 1910. In a devout Catholic community in California, a young girl, Rosina, exhibits a tendency for miracles--the ability to heal and bring the dead back to life. Some worship and adore her. Others fear and wish to kill her. And others, like a priest sent by the Vatican and a few oppor ..."
"Fiction. Michael Hemmingson has been called "Raymond Carver on acid" by literary guru Larry McCaffery and "a disciple of a quick and dirty literature" by the American Book Review. Hemmingson writes from within the everyday man's murky nightmares, offering hints and then, dazzlingly, reneging on his hints."PICTURES OF HOUSES WITH WATER DAMAGE gives me confidence that the American short story, as an art form, is hardly dead—indeed, Hemmin ..."
""Don't look so sad, Mr. Tom Goldberg." "Do I look sad?" he says. "I feel sad. I
thought it was anger. But it's sadness." "Do you want a beer?" she asks. ..."
Star Trek A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series by MichaelHemmingson Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2009 by Borgo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4344-0349-0, ISBN: 1-4344-0349-1
"Alien Sex Fiends, Amorous adroids, and intersellar promiscuity The Era To place
Star Trek into a proper critical context, we must consider the political and social
changes that occurred when the show was broadcast, and how the episodes
were influenced by, and reflected, the world outside the fiction. The late 1960s
were tough times for TV programming and Star Trek, set in a universe where
there is a single earth government, under t ..."
ZONA NORTE(Updated) The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles: An Auto/ethnography of Desire and Addiction by MichaelHemmingson Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-0010-5, ISBN: 1-4438-0010-4
"Zona Norte: The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles: An Auto/ethnography of Desire and Addiction started out as an ethnographic study of prostitution on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border and, as cultural anthropologist Michael Hemmingson explains, turned inward as a study of the self, or what is referred to as âauto/ethnographyâ in todayâs lexicon of qualitative research. ..."
Vivacious Vixens Blackmail Babes Tales of Erotic Noir / Violence Is the Only Solution: 3 Vic Powers Crime Tales (Wildside Mystery Double #9) (Paperback) by MichaelHemmingson, Gary Lovisi Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2011 by Borgo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4344-4416-5, ISBN: 1-4344-4416-3
"In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second title), here is the ninth Wildside Mystery Double: VIVACIOUS VIXENS & BLACKMAIL BABES: TALES OF EROTIC NOIR, by Michael Hemmingson. Blackmail babes, dangerous dames, femme fatales, manic minxes, saucy strumpets, torrid trollops, vivacious vixens, and white trash wantons--men fall for them, men love them, men hate them, men wish they had never met these bomba ..."
Judas Payne A Weird Western / Webb's Weird Wild West: Western Tales of Horror (Wildside Double #11) by MichaelHemmingson, Don Webb Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Borgo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4344-1194-5, ISBN: 1-4344-1194-X
"In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the eleventh Wildside Double. JUDAS PAYNE: A WEIRD WESTERN, by Michael Hemmingson. Judas Payne was the devil's spawn, a product of rape, a half-white, half-Indian outcast who was loved only by his pretty half-sister, Evangeline. When his father finds them naked in the barn, he takes out one of his son's eyes. Judas runs for his ..."
"CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVER Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the "Dirty Realism" genre in the 1980s―branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down to the least amount of words and a concentration on the subject's view of the object. The characters are usually run-of-the-mill, every day people―the lower and middle class worker, the unemployed, the alcoholic, the beaten-down-by-life. ..."
"The tension of the crowded courtroom, jaded DAs and surprise witnesses, stunning defenses and divided juries -- all manner of legal twists and dramatic turns fill the pages in this anthology of legal thrillers featuring writers like Graham Greene, Mark Leyner, and Irwin Shaw, who in past decades have defined this popular genre, as well as those redefining it today. Andrew Vachss, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Joe R. Lansdale, Carolyn Wheat ..."
"In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second title), here's the thirty-second Wildside Double: THE CHRONOTOPE AND OTHER SPECULATIVE FICTIONS, by Michael Hemmingson. Time travel and brothels; unusual visitors from different eras, dimensions, and realities; human zoos maintained by curious aliens who like to watch; private eyes who are zombies; leafy-green literary collaborators; moral steampunk issues; a dre ..."
Hard Cold Whisper by MichaelHemmingson Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2011 by Black Mask ISBN-13: 978-1-60872-618-9, ISBN: 1-60872-618-5
"David Kellgren is a process server, a job where everyone wants to kill the messenger and things can get a little bit dangerous and out of hand. David is attacked when trying to serve legal papers to a gang member and an angel comes to his rescue: nineteen-year-old Gabriella Amaya, trapped in a large dilapidated house, caring for her dying aunt. This elderly aunt has money, diamonds, and real estate, promised to Gabriella when the aunt d ..."
The Trouble With Tramps An Orrie Hitt Homage by MichaelHemmingson Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2010 by Blackmask.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-59654-859-6, ISBN: 1-59654-859-2
"Orrie Hitt was known as the Shakespeare of Sleaze, the Noir Poet of Vintage Softcore, during his salad days from 1957-1964. Then he slowly faded away, like many old paperback hacks did, but he was hardly forgotten. He influenced and warped the minds of many, back then and today, creating a cult following among vintage book collectors and fans. In this pastiche of Orrie Hitt, Michael Hemmingson pays homage to the vintage paperback heyda ..."
Auto/Ethnographies Sex and Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry: Seven Essays on the Self-Ethnography of Self (Paperback) by MichaelHemmingson Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2009 by Borgo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4344-0288-2, ISBN: 1-4344-0288-6
"DEFINITIONS Holt (2003) explains a/e as a genre of writing and research that
connects the personal to the cultural, placing the ... personal narratives,
narratives of the self, writing stories, self stories, , auto-observation, personal
ethnography, ..."