Life can be such a bummer at times. For the sexy Sandy, disgruntled Bonnie, and perpetually pregnant Cathy, what burns them is their husbands’ annual hunting trip. In an effort to forever end these hunts, these three girls plan a secret caper wherein they’ll become Amazon lady warriors and conquer the very town where their husbands’ hunt. The Amazon Ladies’ Caper is a fun-filled fiction adventure with a little fantasy. Although it is humorous and highly entertaining, the book has a serious side as well. Within the pages of this book, we travel with the Amazon ladies from Sacramento, California (their hometown) to Glendive, Montana (where the caper takes place). Along our way, we join Elderhostelers on a dinosaur dig conducted by a Blackfoot Indian paleontologist. We enter the strange and secretive lands of Hutterites where we attempt a rescue. We even help a frustrated psychologist-author complete his book. Best of all, the Amazon ladies forever end their husbands’ annual hunting trip. Or do they? Join us on this most fantastic trip—which is guaranteed to be a “no bummer.”

Tom Treadwell has just celebrated the big five O and for this cross dressing, big haired, spiked heeled, push-up bra former has been. It's been more years than he cares to remember that he's either had the lay of the century, or a steady paying job. And at this juncture, he ain't even sure which he misses most. For this former LAPD homicide cop who'd gotten mad as hell and couldn't take it anymore, he now works out of a two bit hole in the wall in West Hollywood. Along with a seventy something little blue haired lady, with a preference for black belt karate and semi reabilitated ex-cons and a mind reading parrot with a knack for solving crimes that out surpasses his own.Add to that a statuesque blond with an hour-glass figure and ta,ta's to die for, an ex-husband that turns up dead, a wannabe actress with a voice that can melt ice on a winters day,a pornographic film producer and an assortment of likeable and not so likeable characters ....

In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps' - boasting titles like Man's Conquest, Battle Cry, and Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies in battle, while women were reduced to sexual objects, either trivialized as erotic trophies or depicted as sexualized villains using their bodies to prey on unsuspecting, innocent men. The result was the crafting and dissemination of a particular version of martial masculinity that helped establish GIs' expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam. By examining the role that popular culture can play in normalizing wartime sexual violence and challenging readers to consider how American society should move beyond pulp conceptions of 'normal' male behavior, Daddis convincingly argues that how we construct popular tales of masculinity matters in both peace and war.

Once upon a time, Aiden (Lucky) Burke loved Lindsay Shepard with all his heart, and so they were married—for all of twelve minutes. Then he opened his big fat mouth and told the love of his life it wasn’t necessary for her to go to college now. Nobody said eighteen-year-old guys were smart. Needless to say, Lindsay left town to become a doctor and Lucky went away to become a veterinarian. And consoled himself by getting married again...and again...and again... Now Lindsay has returned to her home town of Guthrie to open her new practice. Unfortunately, Aiden still wants her as his wife. But why would she want to fall in love again with the twice...thrice...four times? philandering Aiden Burke?

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com. An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others. The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco’s New Narrative writing circle. From 2003–2019, he was also one of Amazon’s most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied “Top 100” and “Hall of Fame” status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian’s commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer’s endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark. Some for “verified purchases,” others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian’s reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny—flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly—earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian’s reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique. Killian’s prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: “They’re reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They’re poems. They’re essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.”