A book, another book, an appliance out of doors

Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes, the follow up to Monologues for the Coming Plague is now out. This is the cover (sort of):


Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes is the second in what will eventually be a trilogy. The third one will be out...sometime before the next millenium. Here is an excerpt from the present work (click on the image to get a better look):







(Thanks Kyle) Here is the back cover, which carries a perfunctory, incomplete list of the volume's contents:


There is one other excerpt on the Publisher's Weekly site, though if you're a regular reader of this internet world wide web log of mine, you'll have already seen it.

Another book with my name on it also came out last month, but only in Denmark (from Abenmaler) . It's a collection of shorter pieces, some random drawings etc. Below is the cover, partly folded out.


If you were to continue unfolding it, in addition to the material above, you would be presented with a Danish translation of The Game, a three page painted strip I did for Kramer's Ergot #7.

By way of ending for today, here is a picture of a washing machine:

The Slide

Kyle Beachy's debut novel The Slide comes out this week. You should get it. I did the cover, but that's not why--it's also a really good read. Beachy does a clever and relentless inversion of a traditional middle-American coming of age tale...complete with ghosts, baseball, statutory rape and a dissolving marriage. He'll be reading from it at the Book Cellar in Chicago on Thursday, January 29th.

A taxonomy, your mother, the distant stars, Ulisse Aldrovandi, and some slightly assymetrical redactions

King Penguin part four

Images below are from Seashore Life and Pattern (1944), with "colour plates made and printed by John Swain and Sons, Ltd".

King Penguin part three

Below are images from Spiders (1947) with images "made and printed by" John Swain and Sons; and British Shells (1943) with "colour plates made and printed by The Baynard Press".

More Notable Happenings in the Press

The current issue of The Believer features 14 small drawings I did from items in my collection of broken and discarded toys. The drawings are scattered throughout the magazine in the margins. They also printed three different inside covers, each featuring a different painting of mine. Below are a few of the drawings.



The broken and discarded toys themselves are slated to appear in a show at Finestra Art Space in Chicago in mid February.

The King Penguin part 2

Below are images from British Reptiles and Amphibia (1949) illustrated by Paxton Chadwick and British Military Uniforms (1948) with color plates by John Swain.