A thin sprinkling of snow had accumulated on the rooftops and sidewalks, giving Ashland the picturesque, postcard visage of small town New Hampshire. Across the road the townies stood in front of Cumberland Farms smoking cigarettes and holding Budweiser tall boys in gloved hands. They were also postcards, the ones no one bought.

Hello.
I hope you've been having a good 2002 so far. I just wanted to send out a quick message to tell you about Frostbite, Green Bean's major Spring Release. Frostbite is a 155-page work of fiction by Nathan Graziano (author of No White Horses and Seasons From the Second Floor). We've put up a special page on the Green Bean web site dedicated to this forthcoming hardcover title, so if you'd like more information, please check out:
http://www.greenbeanpress.com/

The bleak winter landscape of small town New Hampshire provides the setting for this brilliant chronicle of working class life. Frostbite (April 9, 2002), Graziano's debut work of fiction, connects such unlikely characters as a hirsute librarian, a testosterone-addled dwarf with an air guitar problem, a professional convenience store clerk with punk rock aspirations and the vicarious victim of a devastating moose accident (to name a few) in their attempts to transcend the monotony of their menial existences--only to find themselves bound by the natural elements and their own demons.

All best,
--
Ian Griffin
Green Bean Press
P.O. Box 237
NYC 10013 USA
check out the Green Bean web site:
http://www.greenbeanpress.com

Lynne Savitt's new book THE TRANSPORT OF GRANDMA'S YEARNING VIBRATOR is not available for $10 plus $2 shipping and handling. Published by Myskin press, you can order it directly from her (address coming soon). It's 52 pages and her 8th book. If you've never read Savitt, then you need to. Her work is profound, tightly written, sexy and fun--running the emotional gambit. If you have read her work before, then I'm sure you'll get the book.


In other news, I just beat my wife in raquetball.

Hi everyone!

This will be the final Green Bean Press update for 2001. As always, if you do not want to get any more messages like this from me in the future, just reply with "get me the hell off this list" as the subject. I will do just that, no problem. And if you know anyone you think would be interested in seeing this, by all means, pass it on. Thanks.

A new chapbook of poems by patrick mckinnon called DRESSED ACROSS TIME is now available for $5ppd. ($7 international). patrick mckinnon is co-founder and Director of Poetry Harbor (publisher of The Northcoast Review) as well as Senior Editor of the literary magazine Poetry Motel.

A new CD of a reading Nathan Graziano did in Plymouth, NH on May 1st, 2001 is also now available for $5ppd. ($7 international). It's appropriately titled Live at Biederman's.

Both of these items are available on the Green Bean Press web site
( http://www.greenbeanpress.com ) or by mailing the appropriate funds to the address below. And just as a reminder, the 2-for-1 sale is still on and will be until the end of the year. Take advantage of it. Order anything in the catalog, get another anything of equal or lesser value FREE. Just remember to mention what it is you want.

Thanks very much for your time. I hope you all have a nice December and a pleasant holiday season.

Sincerely,
--
Ian Griffin
Green Bean Press
P.O. Box 237
NYC 10013 USA
check out the Green Bean website:
http://www.greenbeanpress.com

Daniel Crocker's short story "Men Are From Mars, Women Just Shop There." And his Poem "I Like Titties," can both be found at http://www.geocities.com/newgraffiti/index.html

The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Revolution by A. D. Winans (coming in 2002).

A new book about America's foremost non-academic poet, his work, his philosophy, his life. Small magazine editor A. D. Winans writes a personal memoir of his professional relationship and his friendship with this two-fisted poet who called it as he saw it.

The book is more than just a memorir of his relationship with Charles Bukowski. The book covers the West Coast small magazine scene in the 70's and 80's, the role
the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) played in it, the politics behind the National Endownment Of the Arts (NEA) and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM) and much more. Cholk full of quotes from letters Bukowski wrote Winans over an eighteen year period, poems by Winans, and detailed accounts of Winans'close relationship with Bukowski and the late Beat poets Jack Micheline and Bob Kaufman.
Pre-publication hardback orders are now being accepted:$15
Payment made to: Dust Books. POB 100. Paradise, CA 95967.

Do Not Look Directly Into Me is now a Small Press Review Pick of the Month. Order it from www.greenbeanpress.com

People Everyday and Other Poems is currently the Number One Bestseller on the Small Press Poetry list at Powell's Books. www.powells.com

For a copy of The Beer Drinking Hour send an SASE big enough to hold a cassette with one dollar in postage.

Green Bean Press has a new address. http://www.greenbeanpress.com

Last Night the one and only Nature Boy Ric Flair made his much anticipated return to the world of wrestling! The Man is back. The kiss stealin', free-wheelin', wheelin' dealin', limosine ridin',leer jet flyin, high profilin' son of a gun.

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