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THE HYPOCRITE PRESS was founded in 1991 in CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA. ~ Its aim has ever been to promote awareness of, and a healthy critical stance toward, the underground subculture of downtown Charlottesville by printing and distributing the works of young local authors who choose to write about their lives in Charlottesville. ~ In 2005, by joining LULU, we have been able to guarantee our entire catalogue remains in print, available to the widest possible audience. ~ To date, the proceeds of the press are used to maintain the availability of previous publications and to take risks on new authors. ~ Soon, most of the original Hypocrite Press titles will be available here on LULU. The press will continue to expand its catalogue, and will continue in its mission to guide and inform the life of small southern ‘alternative’ towns. ~ ~ “everything’s black and white.”
~ ~ We can be contacted directly at: ~ hypocritepress@gmail.com
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Print: $8.00 Charlottesville short stories; new for 2008. What is intended to be a collection of durable nature of short fiction set in and around Charlottesville, Virginia. This is not a 'literary review' or a 'magazine'. It is a hard-bitten compendium, a solid volume of timeless, deathless prose.Emmett Boaz * Gabriel Check * Alan Farrell * Philip Green * Nicholas Martin * Michael Nace * Miss Doran Ramsey * Kevin Schroeder
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Print: $5.00 Short, powerful essay on the emotion of race at UVA; new for 2008."A visit to Jefferson's University is a walk through the turn-of-the-century South, where poplar trees bear a peculiar fruit and the roots of tradition strangle the buds of progress." This is the most difficult work Hypocrite Press prints, and perhaps the one of which we are most proud. While it will be included in our pending collection of Charlottesville nonfiction, it was unthinkable to let it sit in a drawer until that publication appears...Taylor Harris
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Print: $8.00 Adventure: New for 2007 A travelogue of a motorcycle trip from Vietnam through Laos and then on to China and finally Mongolia, where the Charlottesville author hitchhiked, bussed, and rode horses to find a taimen, a fish that every angler with a flyrod, once he learns of it, dreams of catching. In the style of Bruce Chatwin or the better travel writing in the 1930s, economically vivid description draws the reader into the unspoiled vastness of Mongolia. Gabriel Check
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Print: $7.00 Lyrics-as-verse of the quixotic troubador. Jamie Dyer, singer-songwriter and visionary, prophet of the dusty mainstreet and disused tobacco-barn, seer a-far and speaker a-near, broke bad on Cville Downtown in the early 1990s with a small combo that was soon to become legend and legion in this tawdry burg: The Hogwaller Ramblers. Here, reprinted from the early edition, lyrics to a few of his songs, presented in this slim volume as the clever and powerful verse they are--words to make Jim Morrison blench, to send Dylan-Cohen-Brel scampering for cover. A friend of the Press and a prime-mover in the creation of our bohemian downtown subculture... Jamie at MySpaceJamie Dyer
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Print: $8.00 "poems or not by Alan Farrell, paratrooper sergeant in the Great War." Exquisitely melodious and funny chapbook of Vietnam war poetry by former Green Beret and VMI Professor Alan Farrell, author of Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans (film reviews, also available here). Masculine, comic, singing, clever, melancholy--after the manner of the great early 20th century verse stylist-satirists: Auden, MacNeice, Betjeman, cummings ... Alan F. Farrell
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Print: $18.00 Film reviews from the pages of The Advocate by Alan F. Farrell. By special arrangement with the author, third and expanded edition. This is a collection of reviews written as durable and significant essays, not as newspaper fillers. They are artful and re-readable, funny and highly memorable social-cultural commentary, not plot-description and pro-Studio puff-pieces. Nominated for the 2006 Library of Virginia Literary Awards in Nonfiction Alan F. Farrell
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Print: $13.00 Highly literary novel. Definitive Generation X work by the author of numerous very funny short, and now numerous very significant long, plays, now resident in NYC. A tense and masterful character study of twenty-somethings adrift in the vagaries of social/moral inexactitude and contempo-urban living. Joel Jones
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Print: $12.00 Nonfiction. Sociological, cultural, historical document. In the mid-90s three young women moved to Charlottesville and established a thriving youth alternative counter-culture around themselves, centered on a large farmhouse in the countryside. "The Gus", Gus Mueller, was there at the outset and throughout, and lovingly, hilariously, and critically documented the growth and eventual dissolution of the community in what was to become one of the first-ever and closely-followed web blogs. Originally released in book-form by Hypocrite Press in the early phases of the blog's development, the entire text is provided in this new critical edition, expanded by lavish illustrations and photographs. Gus Mueller
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Print: $10.00 Novel of Charlottesville. Sentimentalist and Vaseline-lensed, a pastorally pretty but wiseassed excursion through Charlottesville and beyond. The prose styling and wit of David Eggers and the stark emotion of John Fante. Gabriel Check
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Print: $7.00 An crass epic verse satire of Charlottesville restaurant-worker counter-culture. This is a long and vulgar rhyming metered poem, exquisitely distasteful but culturally significant to Downtown Charlottesville and beyond. A tight and crudely hilarious spoof of 20-something nightlife and its rewards. Soon after publication was occasionally memorized and performed drunkenly late-night in public places by 20-somethings with nothing better to offer the world. Anonymous, with an introduction by Joel Jones.
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Print: $10.00 Literary-satirical novel of Charlottesville and its drunken and degenerate 20-somethings. Set in and around the Downtown Mall in the putative Golden Age of Charlottesville, the mid-1990s, vacillates between strained sentimentality and acid critique, with soothing doses of high comedy and literary playfulness. Matthew S. Farrell
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Print: $10.00 Novel. A farce and fable set in Charlottesville. Naive and silly romp through downtown bars and country-side, country-parties, stuffed with literary mockery and local parodies. One of the very first Charlottesville-set novels (Downtown Mall in the early 90s) after Darconville's Cat (Theroux); shares original publication date with Sidney Blair's wonderful Charlottesville novel, Buffalo. Matthew S. Farrell
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