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THE HYPOCRITE PRESS was founded in 1991 in CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA. ~ We serve as a growing literary archive of and for Charlottesville by printing and distributing the works of local authors who choose to write about their lives here. The press continues to expand and broaden its catalogue to include historical and more general relevant works. Our fundamental focus remains that of recording, guiding, and informing the life of small southern ‘alternative’ towns. ~ Proceeds of the press are used to promote publications and to take risks on new authors. ~ Purchases are anonymous: we cannot see who orders from the website (several have asked about this as Charlottesville is a small town). Books have generally been priced at production cost rounded to the nearest whole-dollar. We have consistently operated without external support, which has facilitated our fierce independence as well as our being broke on a regular basis. Directed donations to expand and advertise our offerings, possibly also to seek 501c(3) status, would be gratefully welcomed. But really, we just want you to read our books. ~ The Hypocrite Press has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a regional literary publisher. ~ “everything’s black and white.”
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~ For grousing and submissions, or to receive postal or e-mail announcements of new publications, please contact us at this address: ~ hypocritepress@gmail.com
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Print: $11.00 Novel: Reissue. This is the eightieth anniversary reprint of the classic novel of the University of Virginia, and of old Charlottesville, Virginia, not available since 1928. A young cocktail-swilling poet-aesthete; wending his way through UVA’s parties, secret-societies, academic and administrative pitfalls. A loveable rogue anti-hero for our time and his, for all time. A sensitive and antic novel of time and place, written to a tone, texture, and quality to allow it to compare favourably to any of the bildungs-romans of the Jazz-Age... but with a distinctly Virginian flavour. A Southern Gatsby (1925), an American Decline and Fall (1928), a landlocked The Rock Pool (1936), a more survivable Beneath the Wheel (1906), a small-town Sinister Street (1914). Boojum! falls solidly in the genre of comic-tragic bohemian drop-out masterpieces, and deserves to assume its place amongst them... here’s hoping this re-issue may help it to do so. By Charles Wertenbaker.
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Disc: $9.00 {DVD; 22 minutes, documentary film} The epoch-shattering bio-pic about Zeke Hoffmeyer, former tallest-tree in the forest of bohemian Downtown Charlottesville VA in the early 1990s, the Golden age of the Mall. Ur-freeliver, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, etc., loved and respected by all. Eponymous around the Downtown and arts-scene, lost to our world by his own hand. Here remembered in loving exploration of his life, work and influence by his longtime closest friend Joel Jones.
Zeke Hoffmeyer, 1967--1994
"There is continuity; and I think in the wider world... we have to find it now. Rock on, Zeke."
Researched and Narrated by Joel Jones
Filmed and Edited by Ben Jones (benjones, jigsawjones, brodrick jones)
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Print: $7.00 Former poet-laureate of Charlottesville whose verse graced every issue of the then-nascent C-Ville Review, CW Hlad's Magic Starter Kit was the first book published by Hypocrite Press. This present collection is perhaps the most intimate we print, "...very personal and conceived as such... an experimental love-letter cycle...". With all the inimitable tone and texture, pressing Southern-ness, of his earlier writing, this work represents a matured and tensely dear Hlad. Christopher Walker Hlad
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Print: $7.00 Verse Representing nearly twenty years of writing, this is a tightly cohesive chapbook of exploratory verse in an intelligent but not hopeless or contrived melancholic temper by a forever resident of Charlottesville. Product of perceptive sun-dappled strolls and nights of soul's awareness, we offer this as a potentially modern version of Sunlit Years, each speaking in a distinctively Southern voice, this as reminiscent of the Fugitives and paint-peeling porches as that other work is defined by that movement. Susan Imhof; introduced by Michael Nace
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Print: $7.00 historical narrative Charlottesville, war-torn, one hundred forty years ago. The motives of those who wore gray. A Private, a common soldier. Yet eloquent and captivating prose of home and friends and family, of defining sense of duty, and of mortal combat. Private Neese’s memoirs shine light on Charlottesville’s rich history. Snapshots of the buildings, the streets, the mountainsides, and the people who lived here, and who fought and died here. Neese felt no animosity for the enemy, no glee in bloodshed. A warrior poet, he experienced homesickness, melancholy, happiness, satisfaction, mournfulness, hunger, aggravation, camaraderie and fatigue. In these memoirs he forged a bridge across time to leave in today’s reader a new and appreciably different perspective of Charlottesville. —Michael Waitz, USAF by George M. Neese, introduced by Henry D. Molumphy, former officer of the United Nations
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Print: $7.00 Verse This is a re-issue of the original edition of 900 copies printed in 1904. The author attended William and Mary and the University of Virginia. These poems, Southern-Fugitive in character, powerfully evoke a distant time, and through them runs a deep sentimentality, nostalgia, and love for the Commonwealth in which the author lived and that the author served. James Lindsay Gordon, with an introduction by Michael Nace.
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Print: $7.00 travelogue of a visit to charlottesville benjones was not a journalist by trade or by nature, but that didn't stop him from chronicling his Robitussin-fueled entropic adventures with a youthful disregard for propriety and form. Eastern Standard: a Southern Northerner Goes South is one such record, a single week in his young life, filled with weddings, trains, tattoos, and general debauchery. Lovingly, if haltingly, curated and annotated by his older self, Eastern Standard is a snapshot of a particular time, a particular gonzo mood that existed once in a slightly grittier Charlottesville, VA.
Reviewed by Cville Weekly
benjones
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Print: $8.00 novel of charlottesville Combat veteran of The Sandbox returns to pursue with his buddy a Gatsby/Heart-o-Darkness exploratory peramble of hometown excess and his own otherness, through sinister Downtown and the savaging periphery. Breathtakingly accurate and sentimentally affectionate portrayal of the town, and the natives we never see. A devastating critical judgment of what we were and have become. Nicholas Martin
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Print: $8.00 Verse
This is the tenth anniversary re-issue of an outstanding volume. This poet, exceptional in this age in his depth and breadth of knowledge of classic poetic forms, emerged at a flashpoint in contempo-poetic culture, when Native-Tongue School hip-hop merged with the excesses and abuses of the poetry slam: sometimes in respect, sometimes mockery, sometimes defiance of traditional forms. Alex Jost was brilliant in navigating his way through the dynamic tensions of the poetic-literary moment, and this work is the path he nimbly blazed. Alex Frampton Jost
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Print: $8.00 Commemorating Poe's 100th, now 200th, birthday. In 1909, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, and emphasizing his connection to the University of Virginia, a large celebration was held at UVA, involving Poe scholars from around the world. Subsequent to the event, a book of the speeches and greetings from that gathering was issued in limited printing. This is a new edition of it. In addition to lengthy talks by noted Poe scholars from Britain, France, Germany and the U.S., there are commemorative poems written for the event, and official greetings sent by the likes of Yeats, Thos. Hardy, etc. Various Contributors
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Print: $7.00 Charlottesville short stories; compilation 1. 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: $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: $11.00 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: $8.00 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 Crass verse satire of Cville restaurant insiders. 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: $8.00 Charlottesville novel, satire. 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: $8.00 Charlottesville novel, farce and fable. 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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Print: $8.00 "poems or not by Alan Farrell, paratrooper sergeant in the Great War." Exquisite Vietnam War poetry by former Green Beret VMI Professor Alan Farrell. Masculine, comic, singing, clever, melancholy--after the manner of early 20th century stylist-satirists: Auden, MacNeice, Betjeman, cummings...
Review on Amazon
More Vietnam writings:
More Than a Memory
The Major Won the Croix de Guerre
Cortez in Darien
Alan F. Farrell
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Print: $18.00 Film reviews from the pages of The Advocate. 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 Library of Virginia Literary Awards in Nonfiction Alan F. Farrell
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