Patrick Cooper

While traveling throughout the Middle East in 1966 in search of his runaway older brother, fifteen-year-old Stephen tries to come terms with a secret from his own past.

I Is Someone Else

Amber Newberry

Richard Farren Barber

Michael Carey

Bill Dale Grizzle

David J Gibbs

Kathleen Halecki

Melissa McArthur

Jonathan D Nichols

Mary Jo Fox

Wicked Tales from the Witch City

Shadows in Salem

Aren’t You Gonna Die Someday? explores the deceptions and veiled truths lurking within a film that has haunted author Patrick Cooper for nearly a decade: Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky. Called both a “masterpiece” and a “celluloid death wish” upon its release in 1976, Mikey and Nicky is an astonishingly dark work in the oeuvre of legendary comedienne-filmmaker Elaine May. This book examines May’s tragic film scene-by-scene, digging up the titular friends’ long-buried truths in an attempt to get at the heart of their lies. Along the way, Cooper offers behind the scenes insight and anecdotes, gathered from interviews and research, as well as never before seen set photos. Weaved together with this detailed look at the film are autobiographical threads in which Cooper uses Mikey and Nicky as a lens to examine toxic friendships from his own past. A tapestry of film history, reconstruction, and personal reflection, Aren’t You Gonna Die Someday? is an unexpected look at a wholly unique American film. “Patrick Cooper's Aren't You Gonna Die Someday? is a big-hearted and personal look at Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky, my all-time favorite film, a tender and neurotic masterpiece. Cooper’s approach is so accessible, so highly readable, that this felt less like a work of criticism or biography and more like a thrilling novel centering around May, Falk, Cassavetes, and the City of Brotherly Love. This is an essential companion to the film. If you’re like me and you bought the recent Criterion Blu-ray the day it came out, well, this is your next move. Revel in Cooper’s detailed investigation of the greatest film by one of our most neglected masters.” —William Boyle, author of Gravesend, The Lonely Witness, and A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself

“Aren’t You Gonna Die Someday?” Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky: An Examination, Reflection, and Making Of

It is 1969, and Stephen meets up with old friend Astrid and her lover Spencer, and stays with them in the hippy household “The Hollies.” Peace and love are tangible: until his passionate attraction for another girl in the household goes sour. He drifts into the radical arts scene and far-left politics, and finally into a squalid squat in London. A return to the idyllic “The Hollies” seems a good idea, but now the house has become a commune, and Spencer is the guru. When this too, inevitably, goes sour, Stephen has to try to understand what was real and what was just a dream?

Tell Me Lies

In England in 1969, nineteen-year-old Stephen leaves his conservative home, where he is haunted by a troubled past and dread of the future, and is drawn by an old friend to a commune, whose charismatic leader speaks of finding freedom to live in the momen

S. A. Cosby

Nick Kolakowski

William Soldan

Nick Manzolillo

Aaron Fox-Lerner

Mike McCrary

Andrew Paul

Kyle Summerall

Dale Phillips

James Queally

Blair Kroeber

THIS IS IT!!! The final publication from the award-winning, trailblazing, ass-kicking THUGLIT magazine. And we are going out with a bang, people. TWELVE all new stories of crime to blow your faces off like a mistimed quarter-stick of dynamite. We are sure as shit not going quietly into that dark night, Thugketeers.Oh no. We are going out with a BANG!A BAD DAY IN BOAT REPO by Nick KolakowskiWHAT'S A JIM HAT? by Nick ManzolilloTHE MISSING PIECE by Aaron Fox-LernerSEPARATE CHECKS by Mike McCraryTHE LAST LIVING THING by Andrew PaulFLIP THE RECORD by Patrick CooperJUKE by Kyle SummerallFOREVER AMBER by Dale T. PhillipsALL THINGS COME AROUND by William SoldanPROWL by James QueallyTULARE by Blair KroeberSLANT SIX by S.A. Cosby

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