SMALL IRONIES: Max Draper is the younger child in a typical American family with a three-generation family business: prostitution. As a teenager he falls in love with a friend, a girl named Freddy. In New York, London and elsewhere life takes him through many changes, including sexual orientation. He ends up in a place never thought of, but very right for his history and background. In 52 chapters the book covers 17 years in his life.

Cement Dust draws a stark picture of the confluence of creativity and confusion as a sculptor and her younger cousin deal with her growing manic-depression syndrome. Feyhe Baumann has no idea of her illness but her cousin's son, Billy Duncan becomes the object of her obsessive nature and he also begins to develop this problem.

Phil Proctor, co-founder of the legendary, surrealist comedy group, the thrice Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, in cahoots with Peter Bergman, Phil Austin and David Ossman, helped to create the most revolutionary comedy recordings ever made. Over a 50-year career, starting in the ‘60s and ending with them all in their 70s, they predicted reality TV, hackers, computer viruses, virtual reality, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and much more still to come. But during a breather in the Fir...