Fenrick Books
Work available by Tori Kudo and Robert Pawliczek
Robert Pawliczek.
Via Giovanni Tagliere.
(European Shipping after the 10th of October, shipped from Europe. If ordering from places other than U.S., Europe, U.K., please write.)
“Via Giovanni Tagliere begins in negotiation with pain. Simply, this book is the daily walking journal of an underprepared traveler. It recounts Pawliczek‘s twenty-three day journey on foot from Austria, across the Alps, to Rome. He is held up and pressed along by ailment, storm, vague destination. He follows and is pursued by water, follows and is pursued by that which he hopes to avoid.
It is maybe more precisely a map. One revealed to us by its walker, not only in place-names and waterways, but in its referential impression-threading of landscape to film, to literature, art, a movement, a famous face. So it is a map of the walker, too, though he is slow to disclose, describes around himself. We learn him first on his surface, of dress, aches, breakfasts. Then in his negative, in what he avoids—sacrifice, pilgrimage, Catholic bearing. It (he, anything) admits more honestly by what it eludes. Strict in his agnosticism, so admits his upbringing, in his guidelines, so admits his discrepancies, in his solitude, so admits his company, his guides—Bernhard, Virgil, Pasolini. We join them, are, or become them. Walking a map and its negative, as it reveals itself to itself. A walker himself to himself, as he wonders how far he might go.“
- Thirteen, Trains.
CD version of Nathaniel Dorsky and Mark Birnbaum's The Green and The Grey forthcoming.
***
Nathaniel Dorsky and Fenrick Books present:
The Green and The Grey envelops you as it cradles you. Repetitive and melodic in the best possible way, this is a deeply nurturing musical experience.
"The Green and the Grey came about one evening while visiting my oldest of childhood friends, Mark Birnbaum. Mark had purchased a toy organ that day at a garage sale and that evening I began to play around with its keyboard. Mark soon began tapping on his tabla-like drum set. We both had spent a lifetime listening to Indian classical music. Soon we were enjoying ourselves in that mode. I never thought of myself as a musician as such, but I must admit, a kind of wonder took place. Luckily, Mark had had the presence of mind to turn on his ancient reel to reel Wollensak and hang a microphone over the back of a chair. Hence, the good fortune of this 46 minute recording."
--Nathaniel Dorsky.
Party Monster is the third book published by Fenrick Books. It was produced in collaboration with the New York Board of Taste.
The Deluxe Edition is made with premium materials and includes a collaborative artwork by Fenrick and The New York Board of Taste.
An altered facsimile of Macaulay Culkin's copy of the script to the 2003 movie Party Monster. The movie Party Monster is a dramatization of James St. James' 1999 memoir Disco Bloodbath starring Macaulay Culkin as notorious downtown club kid turned murderer Michael Alig.
"This transformative, meta-theatrical reprocessing of real events, documentary retellings, stylized silver screen mythology and found materials lay bare the sanitizing force of nostalgia, the commodification of marginal queer experience and the cyclical machine of myth making."
To The Cold Heart by Clark Coolidge is the first book published by Fenrick Books.
The second book co-published with Random Man Editions…
ERRTH CALLS: COMA WALLS, KENSPECKLE XEDUSAE, HAUSTORIAL GROTESQUES, AND BUTYL BALLET PANTY BRICKS
by BONNIE BANKS
(Grux from Caroliner)
Co-published by Fenrick Books and Random Man Editions
Available online from Random Man Editions (click text to proceed to their website and purchase)
Paint-smeared covers, obi, 8x8”Edition of 200 (100 w/ a 7” record)
Bonnie Banks performs as Rubber (() Cement and has been in countless legendary costume-oriented underground bay area bands since the mid 80s
Afterword by Alan Bishop from Sun City Girls
new arrivals
