David Macpherson knew the artist Edward Gorey. Well, he knew him a little bit. When David was a young man, he volunteered in the same place Edward Gorey did. This book is a memoir of that time in Cape Cod. It is also a meditation on the people we remember and the people we name drop. What makes a person worth name dropping? Is it acceptable to name drop an artist that you barely knew?

You have been bitten by a zombie. What do you do?Well, don't hide it from the members of your post-apocalyptic community of survivors. They would not be happy if you turned into a zombie without telling them. That's just rude.You should read this book. It will tell you how to be your best post-bite person. It will also tell you what rules you need to follow while having a great old time, before we kill you.We have to kill you before you turn into a zombie.Yo...

Diver Doug is a zinester. He makes home-made magazines. He plays his mandolin. He creates clay figurines. He works in pet shops and sleeps on the couches of friends or acquaintances. He is a free spirit and he wants you to buy stuff. It is the mid-nineties and DIY is a way of life.More Sopping Products is his adzine where he talks about his books, music cassettes, clay figures and other things. He is a chatty cat and has a lot to say about how he wrote his zines and the people who ...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

Who do you call a criminal?It can't be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well?The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials to mob bosses. They will copyedit notes announcing that this is a bank robbery. They will teach others how to distribute counterfeit money. They will also drug and transport people. They will not do terrible things to them, just transport them.Does that make them bad?

The Hangover Hour Spoken Word Salon was a poetry reading held in Worcester, Massachusetts from 2013 to 2017.It was a fun, silly reading that celebrated the writing and style of a by gone age. The host, David Macpherson, embraced the 30s and 40s of the New Yorker to create his reading.The featured performers would come and perform a show based on the writing of someone they always admired, but had passed away, and they wanted other people to dig it.The show was loud ...

David Macpherson tried to write a book called The North Pole Hotline and could not get past the two thirds point. Five years later, he was back to writing it. He finished it. It took a lot of effort and thought.This book you are looking at is a companion to that process. It goes through the history of the writing project and why it fell off the road. It goes through the day to day processes David took to finish it once he found a way to move forward.David also talks about o...

Aren't you tired of books with plot and character and just want to read simple lists?Us too. And with that in mind, we have included four of the small books that David Macpherson wrote. They demonstrate the different ways lists can be presented as a piece of writing."501 Things to Be Wary Of" is just a goofy litany of stuff."367 Things to Do While Sitting Out a Pandemic" was written in March 2020, when the Covid lock-down began. This can be not seen as a historical ...

People weep at the movies. If an old guy goes to a movie by himself, there is a chance he will be crying by the end. No matter what kind of movie it is, he will be crying.David Macpherson is that old guy crying at everything.In this personal essay, he attempts to understand the joy and art of crying at the movies.What movies do you cry at?Should men hide their tears away, because crying at a movie is a such a girl thing to do?Or is it universal?...

Time is not a river. Time is the ticking of the clock. Time is not a loop where people run around and repeat the same day over and over.No.Time is a highway.It is a long well paved highway that goes from the start of creation on until the end of everything. Don't be alarmed. There are offramps along the way. You can drive the Time Highway and get off at your favorite eras. You just need to be able to be on the Highway.Like any major thorough fare, there are ...

There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the questions everyone asks, or is it more random than that?

Who is Raft Girl?She is a young girl who is on the ocean having adventures while evading the mean Agent Hard Tack. She is aided by her friends, Raft who is a raft, and Bucket who is a bucket that can hold many things inside and Rudder, who is a rudder, but also so many other things.They have so much fun, but sometimes the ocean arises to stop them from having a good time. Like this adventure, the mischievous Mermaid Children pester them and steal Raft for their nefarious pu...