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D. HARLAN WILSON’S ‘STRANGELOVE COUNTRY’ – PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2024

D. Harlan Wilson’s brilliant analysis of the Kubrickian psyche, Strangelove Country, will publish with Stalking Horse Press in November 2024! It is the good doctor’s second book with Stalking Horse Press, after the dazzling The Psychotic Dr. Schreber. Here is an introduction to Strangelove Country in Wilson’s own words: “With …

10 YEARS OF STALKING HORSE PRESS

2024 marks 10 years since the founding of Stalking Horse Press by writer James Reich. We have a packed roster of forthcoming titles for 2024 and into 2025, not least new work by poet Robert Gibbons, a third Stalking Horse Press book from the legendary David Ohle, more from Kurt …

MICHAEL J. WILSON: A LABYRINTH

October 2023 saw the publication of Michael J. Wilson’s third book with Stalking Horse Press. A Labyrinth was launched with a reading and party at As Above So Below cocktail bar and distillery in Santa Fe, NM. A Labyrinth isn’t just the retelling of Daedalus and Pasiphaë, it’s an astonishing …

DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON: LEGIBLE WALLS

Challenging and opening our perceptions of the city, this collection of poems, essayistic prose fragments, and images rounds out Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s tenure as Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2021-2023. “I see mirages—my books, that is, generally speaking begin with collections of riddles, tiny insidious lights, mysterious UFOs and mirages that …

JARROD CAMPBELL: THE REASON I’M HERE

Jarrod Campbell’s bold fiction traverses and examines the spaces and purposes assumed by the gay male, not least his own. The Reason I’m Here departs from standard expectations of queer behavior to subvert these limited perceptions in favor of honest explorations of desire, amnesia, voyeurism, betrayal, physicality, grief, faith, and uncertainty. Gritty, dreamlike, and reminiscent of Hitchcock …

MATTHEW BINDER: PURE COSMOS CLUB

In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his companion dog, a disabled, quiche-obsessed terrier-mix named Blanche. Together they negotiate hilarious scenes of bad parties, bizarre …

JAMES REICH: THE HOLLY KING

The Holly King is a strictly limited edition of 28 poems by James Reich. This publication is only available directly from Stalking Horse Press, and will not be reprinted. “James Reich turns his considerable abilities with word play in his fiction into poetry, and displays a knowledgeable, sometimes devilish ability …

SEB DOUBINSKY: FRAGMENTS OF A REVOLUTION

1969: Revolution in Mexico! Decades later, charismatic guerrilla leader Lorenzo is living in Europe with a young son. Approached by a German revolutionary organization for his account of the conflict, he struggles to recall repressed memories of violence, absurdity, and tragedy. Lorenzo’s past returns in Seb Doubinsky’s kaleidoscopic Fragments of a …

JESSIE JANESHEK: MADCAP

Jessie Janeshek channels the madcap dead of occult Hollywood, and her ouija board is a synthesizer, summoning Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Marilyn, and Madonna to her mysterious House of Wax. These are daring poems calling on Dracula, drugs, and Dick Tracy; a velvet underground …

D. HARLAN WILSON: THE PSYCHOTIC DR. SCHREBER

Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) came to prominence as one of history’s most famous madmen in the wake of Sigmund Freud’s “Psychoanalytic Notes Upon an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia” (1911). Freud’s study psychoanalyzed Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, a detailed account of the German Judge’s psychotic breakdowns in …

DUNCAN B. BARLOW: A DOG BETWEEN US

duncan b. barlow delivers tender shocks and the profundity of mercy in this poignant, delicate novel of loss and love. A Dog Between Us holds the reader between what can be said and what is unspeakable in our most vital relationships. this is an unforgettable novel of beauty and delirium.  A Dog …