Monkey Puzzle Press

Monkey Puzzle Press is proud to announce the publication of our new novel – Searching for Suzi by Nancy Stohlman!

For a free preview, click here: Searching for Suzi

From Monkey Puzzle Press:

What happens when an ex-stripper in her mid-thirties, married with children, awakens one day questioning what brought her to a current life of complicated domesticity? Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, the narrator we only know as Natalie begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. Natalie’s search becomes an intrepid journey through her own sexuality, a woman not only claiming herself but also accepting her contradictions. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.

Here’s what people are saying about Searching for Suzi:

“Sexy, gutsy, raw and mature. A literary strip tease, Nancy Stohlman lures us through the layers of her dark world with the promise of exposing the ultimate sparkle…and ends up revealing something profound.”

Raymond Federman
Author of Double or Nothing

“Searching for Suzi offers syntax of desire itself – the complex, difficult, and beautiful ways we rupture into and beyond our own ghost-versions inside the mystery of hello and good-bye. Nancy Stohlman has written a spare, searing, and stunning book. It will wake you in the way that only necessary art can do.”

Selah Saterstrom
Author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

“In cheap pulp fiction, a stripper is either the helpless victim of sexual exploitation or the gutsy woman who makes the system work for her. Searching for Suzi is not pulp fiction. Nancy Stohlman smartly complicates the stereotypes with this story of a woman looking back on her life from a scrutinizing distance, separating the romantic images from the real and transforming the latter, through the art of storytelling, into something intimate and compelling.”

Danielle Dutton
Author of Attempts at a Life

$11.95 – Available for Pre-Order at Monkey Puzzle Books!

We had a lot of fun last night at the launch party – nearly seventy people in attendance – thanks to everyone who came and made it a special occasion!

Diane Klammer

Nate Antar

Tiph Parrish

Nancy Stohlman

Aaron Klammer

Hannah Rodabaugh

Jared Smith

Jonathan Montgomery and Rob Geisen

Kona Morris

Brendan & Kris Hamilton

Rob Geisen

Megan DiBello

Hannah Paynter

Daniel Staniforth

Savage-Rumbaugh’s work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology — and how much by cultural exposure.

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

For a full resolution PDF flier, click the following: Launch Party for Shootin the Moon!

Jack Kerouac
(March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)

All you do is head straight for the grave,
A face just covers a skull for awhile.
Stretch that skull cover and smile.

- Jack Kerouac -

“We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.”

- Aldous Huxley -

“No risk, no reward. No risk, no life.”

- Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales has been studying accidents and their roots in human behavior for more than thirty-five years. Deep Survival is the culmination of that research.

From the publisher: “In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in wilderness or in meeting any of life’s great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.”

From Nate Jordon: “Deep Survival is not just a series of flesh-eating tales of survival, it is a deep investigation into what it takes to survive in life-threatening situations. Gonzales deftly combines factors of psychology, emotionality, spirituality, and physicality as the premier forces that determine who lives, who dies, and why.”

Really?

You have to see this for yourself: Chia Obama

Sometimes things in life are so absurd, there are simply no words to describe them.

Chia pet that looks like the president? YES WE CAN!

“The best thing any person can do is to be as much the way as he (she) wants to be rather than being molded by mass dictate, style, so forth. Of course, most people are completely wiped out by the educational system, church, country and the need to survive. And they will be offended by anything that goes against what they have been stuffed with, and they are stuffed, stuffed turkeys, stuffed sausages, stuffed bags of shit. Even death doesn’t do them honor because it just takes meat, not soul, not true gut, not anything interesting at all.”

- Charles Bukowski -

from Curt Worden, director of One Fast Move or I’m Gone:

Hello from KEROUAC FILMS!

Here is an update regarding distribution of One Fast Move Or I’m Gone:Kerouac’s Big Sur.

As some of you may know, we produced a feature-length documentary and a 12-cut soundtrack album about Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur. The documentary features notable people including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Dar Williams, Aram Saroyan, Sam Shepard and 25 more. The song lyrics on the soundtrack album were written by Jay Farrar by using Kerouac’s prose from the book. Performing with Jay on this album is Ben Gibbard.

We recently signed a distribution agreement with Atlantic Records to distribute both the film and album worldwide.

So now is your chance to see the film and listen to the music. The film will be shown theatrically in 40 cities in United States on October 20th which is also the release date of the film. The film will also premiere in Los Angeles and New York City on October 15th. There will be other screenings in various venues that we will be sure to let you know about.

The music album will also be released on October 20th and a 4 city concert tour will begin on October 23rd.

Here are dates to look for:

October 15: Los Angeles & New York City premieres (theaters to be announced soon)

October 17: Big Bear Film Festival

October 20: Official release of the film and album. (pre-sales are available now)
For those of you in the Denver area, catch the premiere at:
Kerasotes – Cherry Creek 8
3000 E 1st Avenue
Denver, CO 80206

October 23: Ben Gibbard/Jay Farrar begin a concert tour

Additional information about where the film will be shown in the US will be sent as we get it.

Stay tuned as we develop additional entertainment products.

Thanks for your interest in Kerouac Films.

Kerouac Films

http://www.kerouacfilms.com