Work
Fiction:
Dermaphoria
10 October 2005
ISBN 1-931561-75-3
Hardcover $24.00
Eric Ashworth awakens in jail, unable to remember how he got there or why. All he does remember is a womanıs name: Desiree.
Bailed out and holed up in a low rent motel, Eric finds the solution to his amnesia in a strange new hallucinogen . By synthesizing the sense of touch, the drug produces a disjointed series of sensations that slowly allow Eric to remember his former life as a clandestine chemist. With steadily increasing doses, Eric reassembles his past at the expense of his grip on the present, and his distinction between truth and fantasy crumbles as his paranoia grows in tandem with his tolerance.
With vivid detail and elegant prose, Clevenger creates a visceral world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, fact and fiction prove to be less discernible than they are perceived to be.
The Contortionist's Handbook
ISBN 1-931561-15-X
Hardcover $23.00
ISBN 1-931561-48-6
Paperback $12.50
John Dolan Vincent is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his imending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental healthy authorities and to save himself from a life of incarceration. But running turns out to be costly. Vincent's clients in the L.A. underworld lose patience, the hospital evaluator may not be fooled by his story, and the only person in as much danger as himself is the woman who knows his real name.
The Contortionist's Handbook Graphic Novel:
Short Fiction:
The Fade
La Dissolvenza (The Fade in Italian)
Non-fiction:
Pieces from Craig's stint on the Santa Barbara Independent
Rare First Sedition
Watching the Watchmen
Unfinished Business
Where Words Come From
Working Without a Net