Monkey Puzzle Magazine

New MPP Book “Tapeworm” – Available Now!

Nate Jordon — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:43:48 +0000

Tapeworm by Nicholas B. Morris

For a free preview, click here: Tapeworm

From the Publisher:

A man takes over a used car lot tied to a series of murders, a carnie tries to earn extra money by fighting his boss, a cop sells unusual Elvis memorabilia with supernatural results, a model amputates body parts for her popular website, religious visions lead an evangelist down a violent path . . . These fourteen stories move from backwoods Arkansas to concrete jungles, from churches to prison cells, from delusions to truth.

Here’s what people are saying about Tapeworm:

“In Tapeworm, Morris has his finger on the jackhammering pulse of the world within the world where the culture does its fiercest living. Luminous and livid, comfortingly familiar and disturbingly strange . . .”

- Laird Hunt, author of Ray of the Star

“Nick Morris’s sharply drawn characters occupy those unique American zones where Urban Legends are born and tabloid headlines are manufactured for the five o’clock news. In Tapeworm his people’s fifteen minutes of local fame or ignominy usually are ignited by a manic desperation, although some sympathetic souls simply wander into their fates. A skillful and bemused black humor lightens his ‘If It Bleeds It Leads’ tales of runaway public folly and hubris.”

- Keith Abbott, author of Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan

$15.50 – Available Now!

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To order from Amazon.com, click here: Tapeworm

Product Details
Paperback: 126 pages / Fiction
Published: June 2010
ISBN-10: 0-9826646-3-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826646-3-6

RIP Mr. Mojo Risin’

Nate Jordon — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:49:56 +0000

RIP Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)

ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ

Charles Bukowski Uncovered

Nate Jordon — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:22:38 +0000

Pick up a copy of the new Boulder Weekly! It features an article on Bukowski by MPP author Adam Perry with an interview by Monkey-in-Chief Nate Jordon – or dig the online version by clicking here: Charles Bukowski Uncovered

So Truly Blind Is Lord Man . . .

Nate Jordon — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:50:15 +0000

“So truly blind is lord man; so pathetically employed in his little jobs of town-building, church-building, bread-getting, the study of the spirits and the heavens, that he can see nothing of the heaven he is in.”

- John Muir -

Monkey Puzzle Press Author Jack Collom Performs at Naropa’s SWP

Nate Jordon — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:03:00 +0000

Monkey Puzzle Press Author Jack Collom Performs at Naropa’s SWP:

Brandon Arthur’s Book Launch

Nate Jordon — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:15:10 +0000

Here’s a few shots from Brandon Arthur’s Book Launch:

Monkey Puzzle Contributors Perform at Naropa’s SWP

Nate Jordon — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:11:43 +0000

MPP Poetry Editor / Publishing Assistant Michael D. Edwards:

Monkey Puzzle Contributor Jordan Antonucci:

Monkey Puzzle Contributor Lina Oh:

Monkey Puzzle Contributor Donley Bennett:

Celebrate the Release of Brandon Arthur’s “expired Rx” – Tonight!

Nate Jordon — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:08:10 +0000

Hope to see you tonight!

For a full resolution PDF of the flier, click here.

Teen Wolves in Texas!

Nate Jordon — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:57:32 +0000

Teen Werewolves Are Real – watch more funny videos

The Human Being can be very stupid . . .

Nate Jordon — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:25:13 +0000

The Human Being can be very stupid, especially in the half-light of almost 2,000 years of semi-Christian culture where emotionally barbaric ideals are mixed through with educational systems of learning based upon national, regional, economic, and status forces. The development of the Pure Mind in America is almost impossible unless a man is fortunate enough to spend the first 25 years of his life in a madhouse or in some other entombed or untouchable state.

- Charles Bukowski -