New edition of Steve Katz's first collection of short stories, originally published in 1970 by Random House."The most extreme and perfectly executed fictional work to emerge from the Pop Art scene of the late 60s." - 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction by Larry McCaffery"Steve Katz is a witty fantasist who can homogenize pop detritus, campy slang and hallucination to achieve inspired chaos." - New York Times
A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies since 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storyboard form.
By founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears-a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, had affairs with famous female folk singers, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix-comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor.
The first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus, "Saw" is a milestone novel of the 1970s. Katz, acclaimed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "witty fantasist who can homogenize pop detritus, campy slang and hallucination to achieve inspired chaos", offers a work of science fiction, irrefutable fact, and gourmand fantasies. **Lightning Print On Demand Title
The Exagggerations of Peter Prince is an adventure for the reader and for the hero. It is a knot of energies, not an inert impress of letters and images on paper. Katz's novel novel-though there were hints and intimations, pages of plagiarism-by-anticipation as far back as Sterne, a scattering of models both to keep in mind and to ruthlessly banish, that had come before-was something entirely new, a rearticulation of the Form of the Novel to p...
Bobbi Katz and Steve Bjorkman created LOTS OF LICE and GERMS! GERMS! GERMS! and team up once again in this hilarious Level 3 Science Hello Reader! that teaches children about tooth decay.
By a founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears--a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, had affairs with famous female folk singers, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix--comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor (what if Woody Allen had been a rock star?)
This collection--derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility--contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life.
