Clint Catalyst

Edgy and ironic, Clint Catalyst exposes the underside of all his many subjects - gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith ("Some New Kind of Kick") or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood ("Metaphor and Remorse"), Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives.

Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst (Cottonmouth Kisses) and Michelle Tea (The Chelsea Whistle) bring together what can only be described as a dream cast of literature’s new avant-garde, sandwiched with a few writers appearing in print for the first time. Catalyst calls the end product "a wonderful sampling of oddities, like a dangerous box of chocolates or an unmarked prescription bottle." Oddities? Oh, yeah. These stories offer scary, funny, chaotic, moving, poignant, intimate glimpses into lives on the fringe, and they will get you up close and personal with speed freaks, scat freaks, gender benders, shoplifters, sober virgins, cybersexualists, Tourette’s syndrome fetishists, and even a naked Butoh dancer. What can we say? We’re not sure if we’re proud or if we should apologize! Contributors include: JT LeRoy (The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Sarah) Dennis Cooper (My Loose Thread, Period, Guide, Try, Frisk, Closer ) Eileen Myles (Cool For You, Chelsea Girls, The New Fuck You) Kevin Killian (I Cry Like a Baby, Little Men, Shy ) Pleasant Gehman (Escape From Houdini Mountain, Princess of Hollywood, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Senorita Sin ) Alvin Orloff (I Married an Earthling ) Shawna Kenney (I Was a Teenage Dominatrix ) Thea Hillman (Depending on the Light ) Jayson Elliott (Clamor magazine) Charles Anders (The Lazy Crossdresser ) Inga Muscio (Cunt: A Declaration of Independence ) Clint Catalyst is the Southern-fried, sissified, Goth--damaged, punk-spirited, hyper-hyphenated, degenerate author of Cottonmouth Kisses. Michelle Tea is the author of the memoir The Chelsea Whistle, the Lambda Award-Winning dyke drama Valencia, and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America.

"Heroes for the mean streets of the 1980s. They are Bronx teenagers chosen for their extraordinary abilities, trained in hand-to-hand combat by the mysterious Mr. Mack until their strength and courage are forged as hard as steel. They are ... the Wolfpack! According to legend, they're part of a millennia old order that serves as righteous balance to the villainous Nine - a group completely devoid of compassion, mercy, or charity. And together the 'Pack will fight to save their home from anything the Nine can throw at them. They are martial artist Rafael Vega, bruiser "Slag" Slagley, ninja-skilled Slipper Sam, speedy Sharon and master planner "Wheels" Wolinski! But with guns blazing and swords clashing, will all of them survive all-out war for the South Bronx?" -- Page of cover.