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An elegant, wise-ass rush of truth, hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes It almost feels like hes leading a palace coup. Spin Magazine on Portable Altamont Davis brilliant media deconstructions are pointed and hilarious at the same time. Kenneth Goldsmith The book of your fever dreams. Slate on I, Tania The elderly...

?In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedians uncanny impression of the President made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmys career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to...

?Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of inimitable distinction, even if it kills him.  Henrik first sets out to experience the throes of addiction,...

Paul Menzies is an out-of-shape, middle-aged advertising executive, who arrives at work one morning to discover hes lost his job. Downsized. That evening, he stops by a bank machine to check his finances. Ahead of him, a scruffy young couple is arguing about the state of their own finances. When the muscular husband, Victor Shriver, loses his...

?You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood the horrors that led you to take the lives of your own father and grandfather.  You journey back through darkness, deliberately, tentatively, to...

Ronnie, a hairdresser with a history of recklessness, feels stifled by the predictable, comfortable life laid out before her with her live-in boyfriend. Charlie is an anxiety-ridden award-winning writer, burdened by his literary success and familial responsibility, including a bread-winning wife and a child with autism. When the unlikely pair...