A dark-humor, true-crime memoir, Almost Rapist is a story told against the backdrop of the Great Recession, when Jöyce, a lapsed cult member and recent NYU acting school graduate, lands a Craigslist job assisting an Oscar-winning composer, filmmaker, and jingle writer on the eve of what she finds out is his Supreme Court rape trial following a near-deadly stroke. While her employer laments his physical recovery as the sole obstacle to his artistic and romantic comeback, Jöyce unravels mounting sexual-assault charges from newspaper accounts as reporters appear near her boss's Upper East Side apartment.

Legal inquiries ... surveillance ... deception ... private invesigators posing as lovers and victims ... murder and greed ... all converge in this stunning debut that strikes at the core of the Sacred Human State grappling with a world that's been built for Commerce.

Hardcover handbound in white velour with sparkly pink dust jacket and striped endpapers.

A grimoire and book of poetry by witch Damon Stang, a practictioner of the tarot who has studied and practiced the art of reading and seeing for over 20 years. The piece chronicles his love of trees, stemming from his childhood in rural South Africa and following his life all the way to present day Brooklyn. Taking place on the eve of Imbolc.

Pansy: Skirting Rock Bottom by Lavender Coyote is a novel constructed of 16 interlacing stories tracing the contours of a sometimes-delusional and other times hallucinatory experience of the life, fun and trauma that goes hand-in-hand with living out one's existence in a cold-hearted capitalist regime. The story takes you from a dungeon in Park Slope to central booking in Downtown Brooklyn, stopping by random street fairs, a few neighborhood bars, the psych ward at Woodhull, and a some small town in Connecticut, as a young queer protagonist misidentifies the prevailing narrative of their own life, making poetry where they might have better come to terms with their emotions — confused where their story ends and their friends' stories begin — and entirely unaware of where the line is drawn between their own personal problems and the greater political crisis. All while flowering the text and meticulously combatting their own perceived isolation, which no amount of company can dispell, while compulsively peopling the page of their book.

In Bad Fly, Harry Finkelstein tells the story of a slippery slope that starts with the uprooting the ice plant on the California coast and progresses to the smash-on-site campaigns targeting spotted lanternflies. Eventually, it progresses to something even more horrifying. The book is illustrated on the front and back cover, and with an insert of six beautiful photographs, by photographer Katherine Finkelstein.

“The Clicking, the Creaking, and the Tap” is story of dissociation, featuring a protagonist who finds himself living with sociopathic nightlife personalities and has to retreat into the privacy of his own room. There, he meets the ghost of Jack Bell, a recently deceased former-inhabitant of the abode who decides that these roommates are unacceptable as people and sets about casting spells to bring about the end of his predicament.

A meditation on loss and the search for meaning in beauty and the sea on which we all float, Transcriptions is a meditation on art by photographer Katherine Finkelstein

Lumpy Log by Clara Lip is a tete-beche binding in painted paper.