“Fresh, weird and funny. Bauman’s work is a genuine surprise.”
–Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls
“Ghosts trying to get laid, an “erotic” burning bush, forbidden love between sea monsters and more fill this collection of Torah-influenced bizarro, horror, and pulp fiction. You gotta dig any book that has a recipe for a skinhead-killing Golem.”
–Jeff Burk, editor of Deadite Press and author of Shatnerquake
“Maxwell Bauman’s writing is wacky and weird. The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook is a strange, surreal, and hilarious ride.”
–Danger Slater, author of I Will Rot Without You and DangerRAMA
“Maxwell Bauman is equal parts joke teller and doomsday prophet, and his stories transform the somber and ancient religion of Judaism into a bizarro sideshow of death and fire and very dignified giggling. Basically, he’s a real mensch.”
–David W. Barbee, author of A Town Called Suckhole and The Night’s Neon Fangs
“These stories are weird, punchy, often funny, often emotional, but never boring.”
— B. Diehl, author of Zellery’s Alley
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A love letter to horror films where poems are the paragraphs.
“If Jack Kerouac watched horror films instead of drinking himself to death he still wouldn’t have written this book. But who cares because Jack Kerouac sucked. This book
-Philip LoPresti author of Haunted Fucking and Wytchcult Rising
“Christoph Paul wants literature to be fun and with his horror film poems, he does what he does best; take a giant novelty sledgehammer to pretension and break down the flimsy fake boundaries between junk food and so
– Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls
“A compilation of nightmares divested straight from the lore of our subconscious; horror fans are treated to vignettes of their favorite horror stories captured in wicked language.”
-Vincenzo Bilof, author of The Horror Show
“Christoph Paul proves his poetic chops time and time again here,
-Jay Sizemore, author of Father Figures and Confessions of a Porn Addict
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Phil LoPresti hates everything except his girlfriend Missy, the band Swans, and Clive Barker (except for the film Nightbreed—he hates that film most of all). He channels his misanthropy into his poetry and art photography, but feels even more discouraged when no one buys his brilliant art. He shares his disgust by writing angry ALL CAPS posts on Facebook attacking all the mediocre writers on his ‘friends’ list.
Needing money to get Missy off his back, Phil enters an art & photography contest. He visits a cancer ward for inspiration and steals ‘artistic materials.’ Phil creates what he feels is his ultimate masterpiece. Unfortunately, an elderly woman drops dead upon first glance at Phil’s ‘artwork.’ Her grieving family sues him. Desperate for money, he stumbles upon a mafia money-laundering job selling hot dogs, but that is only the beginning of his problems. Faced with jail time and losing the love of his life, Phil embarks upon a madcap journey through Jersey in this laugh-out-loud irreverent romp into the dark side of art and love.
Praise for Christoph Paul
“Brave in its playfulness, A Confederacy of Hot Dogs brings Bukowski to Bizarro for the Facebook generation. As with the best satire, Christoph Paul’s hilarious no-holds-barred novella has a lot of love
— Alexander Boldizar, author of The Ugly
“Christoph Paul might be our generation’s patron saint of crass. Charming, funny, and perverse, A Confederacy of Hot Dogs
— Brian Allen Carr, author of Sip and Short Bus
“A hilarious and transgressive love letter to A Confederacy of Dunces and struggling artists in the digital age.”
— Jayme Karales, author of Disorderly and creator of LowRes Wunderbred
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