CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVER Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the "Dirty Realism" genre in the 1980s--branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down to the least amount of words and a concentration on the subject's view of the object. The characters are usually run-of-the-mill, every day people--the lower and middle class worker, the unemployed, the alcoholic, the beaten-down-by-life. In this experimental monograph (in the vein of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Contemporary American Fiction), avante/pop literary critic Michael Hemmingson...

AUTO/ETHNOGRAPHIES Auto/ethnography is a quickly growing and popular sub-field of research in sociology, anthropology, communications, psychology, and health sciences. It is the examination of the self in culture, a "new" branch of memoir and auto/biography that takes the sociological imagination one step further into the postmodern use of the meta-narrative. It is a passionate blend of the "mystory" with academic discourse.

Hemmingson follows in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, Erving Goffman, David Hayano, Norman K. Denzin, and Carolyn Ellis, and then veers off in his own direction,...

Georgie was no dumb-ass crook. But when Melody comes back into his life, she shows Georgie the way to felonies, mugging, robbery, and murder. Michael Hemmingson returns to the world his fans know best: bad karma and kinky sex in the lives of the lost, forgotten, and erotic!

Well-known writer Michael Hemmingson offers a history and critique of the original Star Trek TV series, and the impact it has had on our culture, language, and science. Also included is the first coverage in book form of the 2009 Star Trek motion picture.

10 lusty and shameful tales that take you inside worlds populated by twisted men and women tormented by their sinful lusts and desires.

The Fellowship of Amorous Gentlemen was a group of upperclass men-about-town who swash- and buckled their way through every eligible young female in 19th-century London. Among their members were Phileas Fogg, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, and the Great Detective himself. Classic Victorian erotica.

Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal with a wild girl writer, a white trash genius and a limousine full of angry teenagers. His protagonists scratch at the bottom of society desperate to maintain delusions of adequacy. They fall into each other with hatred and bile; emerging with their own unique form of heroism. Provocative and intriguing, THIS OTHER EDEN by Michael Hemmingson is akin to reading a cross...

Gang Girl

Lora Menotti is five feet five of concentrated sex, one hundred twenty-five pounds of undiluted viciousness. She is sixteen. She is deadly. Her parents know it, and they are afraid of her. Her older brother knows it, and he tries never to turn his back on her. Her neighbors know it, and they keep their distance. The other kids in the gang, the Scarlet Sinners, they know it, too. They fear her, and because of that they respect her. In a teen gang, fear equals respect. There is no other law. This is Lora's story, a girl who thrills at the thought of death, embraces...

The Cheaters

Clint Mayer is a big man with big dreams. Or so he thinks. When Clint leaves Beaverkill for the rough and tumble dock town of Wilton, he hooks up with Charlie Fletcher, good time saloon owner and businessman. One of the businesses Charlie runs out of the bar involves a string of working girls, but he has to pay off Detective Red Brandon and it's wearing him down. He's had enough. Clint agrees to buy him out, but
then he meets Charlie's wife, Debbie. Clint thinks he can find a way to keep the bar, manage the girls and stay away from Brandon. He may even...