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Othello Blues

Product Description: Fiction. "Jaffe is an outrigger, sailing the deeply troubled waters of our social and sexual psyches, risking much, but, with courage and persistence, staying afloat and returning to tell the tale, which in this instance is his remarkable Othello Blues, with its brilliant characterizations, dialect, knowledge of the blues, and deep understanding of Shakespeare's Othello...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781884097294 | Reprint edition (Small Pr Distribution, January 2, 2014), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

Paris 60

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. The 60 entries that constitute PARIS 60 were recorded during Harold Jaffe's Spring 2008 Paris visit to greet the translation into French of one of his earlier volumes. Based loosely on Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, 1869, PARIS 60 is both factual and fictionalized...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781884097287 | Small Pr Distribution, January 14, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

Od: Docufictions

Product Description: Fiction. Each of Harold Jaffe's 13 docufictions features a well-known personage who either died of an overdose or was invested in "drugs" to the extent that they contributed to his/her death. Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday, Bela Lugosi, Aldous Huxley, Freud, Poe, Lead Belly, Sonny Liston, Diane Arbus, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Abbie Hoffman are among those featured...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781884097454, titled "OD: Docufictions: Docufictions" | Small Pr Distribution, February 6, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories

Product Description: These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all who care to see...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781933293899 | Raw Dog Screaming Pr, February 5, 2010, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites.

Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerilla Writer's Guide to Postmillennial Culture

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. For some 25 years, Harold Jaffe's name has been synonymous with confrontational innovative fiction with a subversive edge. BEYOND THE TECHNO-CAVE collects the author's recent "creative nonfiction," including insights on art, writing, technology, global politics, travel, and intersections of all of these...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9780978881115 | Starcherone Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Cultural Writing.

Terror-dot-gov

Product Description: As in Harold Jaffeâs two previous âdocufictionâ collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then âtreatsâ his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781933293097 | Raw Dog Screaming Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: As in Harold Jaffeâs two previous âdocufictionâ collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then âtreatsâ his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction.

15 Serial Killers: Docufictions

Product Description: Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and unsituated dialogues to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all time.

By Harold Jaffe and Joel Lipman (introduced by)

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9780974503103 | Raw Dog Screaming Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and unsituated dialogues to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all time.

False Positive: Fiction

Product Description: Each of the fifteen fictions in False Positive originated as a nationally known newspaper story, which Harold Jaffe has "treated" to bring to its prosaic surface a maniacal subtext. The original stories cover the familiar American postmodern grotesquerie: high school mass murders; sexual molestations; rock star suicides; internet police; serial killers on the loose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Harold Jaffe

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9781573660983 | 1 edition (Fc2/Black Ice Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Each of the fifteen fictions in False Positive originated as a nationally known newspaper story, which Harold Jaffe has "treated" to bring to its prosaic surface a maniacal subtext.

Jesus Coyote

Product Description: Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further. Jaffe's "docufictional" novel based on the Manson murders proves that, like Manson's coyote totem, the myths around him continue to vibrate...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9781933293554 | 1 edition (Raw Dog Screaming Pr, April 30, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further.

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9781933293639 | Raw Dog Screaming Pr, September 30, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further.

Sex for the Millennium: Extreme Tales

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By Harold Jaffe

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9781573660785 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $9.00

Straight Razor

Product Description: Twelve stories with the precision of a laser and the charge of a land mine.

By Norman Conquest (contributor) and Harold Jaffe

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9781573660013 | Northwestern Univ Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories with the precision of a laser and the charge of a land mine.

Eros: Anti-Eros

Product Description: Fiction. Eros collides with Anti-Eros in these menacingly comic fictions in which physical love and desire are policed by a high-tech, militarist, media manipulated society. The calculated silences and disinformation surrounding the AIDS epidemic, the scapegoating of "deviants," and the everyday bafflements of sensual love are intersecting themes in Jaffe's razor-sharp parables about Eros under seige...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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Hardcover:

9780872862456 | City Lights Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Fiction.

Paperback:

9780872862463, titled "Eros Anti Eros" | City Lights Books, June 1, 1990, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Fiction.

Madonna and Other Spectacles

Stories deal with Madonna, President Reagan, terrorism, AIDS, South Africa, Dynasty, the Three Stooges, and Max Headroom

By Harold Jaffe

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9781555540258 | Paj Pubn, May 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Stories deal with Madonna, President Reagan, terrorism, AIDS, South Africa, Dynasty, the Three Stooges, and Max Headroom

Beasts

Ten stories patterned on the medieval bestiary look at the lives of unemployed Blacks, drug addicts, and social outcasts

By Harold Jaffe

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9780915306589 | Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Ten stories patterned on the medieval bestiary look at the lives of unemployed Blacks, drug addicts, and social outcasts

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9780915306527 | Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Ten stories patterned on the medieval bestiary look at the lives of unemployed Blacks, drug addicts, and social outcasts

Mourning Crazy Horse

Product Description: Twenty intersecting tales of estranged love, political oppression and the human comedy. In "Mourning Crazy Horse," the Sioux chief's betrayal and final passion are counterpointed with a contemporary American's journey across the United States...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9780914590729 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, July 1, 1982, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Twenty intersecting tales of estranged love, political oppression and the human comedy.

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9780914590736 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, July 1, 1982, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Twenty intersecting tales of estranged love, political oppression and the human comedy.

Mole's Pity

Product Description: from Mole's Pity: Farther east begins the familiar grief. Walking up 4th Street into the Lower East Side. Shards of history pricking the devastation. The old Jews gone. Or going. Uprooted Puerto-Ricans in their dolorous tenement flats, or leaning over fire-escapes seeking out sun...read more

By Harold Jaffe

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9780914590521 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, January 1, 1979, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: from Mole's Pity: Farther east begins the familiar grief.

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9780914590538 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: from Mole's Pity: Farther east begins the familiar grief.

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