Jay Harper is plagued with terrifyingly vivid, lucid dreams while he sleeps. While awake, his days are riddled with hallucinations from a severe form of hypnagogia. As a struggling artist from New York City, fresh out of college, depression and a lack of sleep are all he knows.When he meets a woman who seemingly deals with the same issues, his entire world changes. He's brought into a vast new world where those visions and lucid dreams aren't a mental illness, but a lost power of h...

Blasphemy and Other Ancestors is comprised of four novellas, in which authors Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen explore the tag end of existence and the abasements that memory holds in store for characters living "outside of their time."In Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, a Southern man of letters tries to instruct his assistant on the matters of the heart, a self-centered telephile recounts how his aunt taught him about the world bey...

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author.Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. ...