Fantastic Metropolis

• When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Pink Beams of Light From the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick, Gabriel McKee
• Blade Runner: The Inside Story, Don Shay
• Travels in Abyssinia and the Harar, Arthur Rimbaud
• Destroy: Sex Pistols, Dennis Morris
• Adulterers Anonymous, Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka
• A Kind of Testament, Witold Gombrowicz
• Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boys’ Subculture, Lauraine Leblanc
• God Save the Sex Pistols: A Collector’s Guide to the Priests of Punk, Gavin Walsh
• Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
• The Wooden Shepherdess, Richard Hughes
• The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Night in the Luxembourg, Remy de Gourmont
• Introducing Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz and R. Crumb
• Le Fanu’s Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness, Victor Sage
• Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
• Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature, Warren Motte, editor
• Ask the Dust, John Fante
• Soft!, Rupert Thomson
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• Diary, Volume One, Witold Gombrowicz
• Mountain R, Jacques Jouet
• Insel, Mina Loy
• Germinie Lacerteux, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
• Unrecounted, W. G. Sebald
• Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934, George Herriman
• Yardie, Victor Headley
• As a Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo
• The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town, Marcus Gray
• Cinderella’s Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground, Maria Raha
• Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
• Diary, Volume Two, Witold Gombrowicz

Allan Kausch is an editor, surreal collagist and author from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had a handful of shows of his original collages, and is the author of five books: Voyage of Exile, Blackberry Castle, The Wax Baby, Fetch the Stick Dog and Remorse Code and Other Tantrums. His latest story appears in Leviathan 4: Cities, edited by Forrest Aguirre. Until recently he worked as the Continuity Editor for Lucasfilm Ltd., serving as the Star Wars expert under George Lucas, and he received the Harvey and Eisner awards for his editing of Star Wars comic books. He is now pursuing a freelance existence.