Dr. Hackenbush Gains Perspective
AIDS and Class Warfare

By Ginger Mayerson

ISBN 9780982581346; 176 pages

It’s 1984 and Hackenbush’s broken heart is on the mend as she assists the very roguish, but devastatingly charming theater director, Monte Vista, in his last and greatest production. Mabel Hackenbush, better known as the singer, dancer, ukulele player extraordinaire, and front woman for Dr. Hackenbush and her Orchestra, has taken a chance on love and lost. After an epic binge, she can’t sing, won’t dance, and can only get through the day by focusing on her temp secretary job. Add in all this, the band has a big show coming up that Hackenbush might not be able to do in her current state of mind. Could this be the end of Dr. Hackenbush and her Orchestra? Into this dire situation saunters Monte Vista, theater maven supreme, who says he wants Hackenbush to help him write his memoirs. But for what he really wants… well, Hackenbush will have to call in reinforcements for that. And even then the outcome isn’t a sure thing.

Check out the sample pages at www.Hackenbush.net

Ginger Mayerson lives in Los Angeles, California. She’s published in the Coe Review, Roux Magazine, The Velvet Mafia, and The Journal of the Image Warehouse. Originally trained as a composer, she now writes novels, poetry, essays, reviews, interviews, makes collages, and edits the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society and publishes books and magazines at the Wapshott Press in her spare time. You can find the Hackenbush scene at www.hackenbush.net. Or you can get the whole story at www.gingermayerson.com.

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1. What is the actual town that is fictionalized as Thalia in Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show?

2. What is the name of Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in his hometown?

3. What is the oldest continuous jazz club in the United States?’

4. Who were the two artists to get creative control from Berry Gordy in Motown?

5. Where did Jane Austen die?

6. How many stars does the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol building have on her head ?

7. What years did Booth Tarkington win the Pulitzer for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams?

8. In the film “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” how many times is Alec Guiness murdered?

9. What was Agatha Christie’s final novel by publication/release date?

10. In Peter S Beagle’s ‘The Last Unicorn’, what was the other ‘real’ magical creature in Mommy Fortuna’s carnival?

11. Who are Jerry Statler and Conrad Waldorf?

12. Which Surrealist painter developed the Paranoic-critical method of painting?

13. Which of Tartini’s compositions did he claim was inspired by a particularly vivid dream of the devil?

14. What was the biggest city in Europe in the 13th century?

15. Who discovered Cicero’s Letters to Atticus in 1345?

16. Which was the last Southern state to secede from the Union in the American Civil War?

17. What’s the first name of Mary Worth’s boyfriend?

18. What free webhost did Yahoo close in 2009?

19. What Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki?

20. Who is this actress?

21. What country has a western border on the Caspian Sea and an eastern border with China?

22. Who is the Godfather of Manga?

23. IKEA is actually an acronym, for what do the letters stand?

24. In what television show can you find Arnold the Pig?

25. Name three core members of “The Brat Pack.”

26. In the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle which actor voiced Calcifer?

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Answers and which Storylandia 4 author or editor dreamed up which questions will be revealed when we have three winners. Contest ends at 11:59 PM on October 30, 2011. Winners and answers will be revealed shortly afterwards. Yay!

“The address has now been confirmed: Word Up will be at 4157 Broadway, at 175 Street, across the street from the United Palace Theater, on the same block as Malecon, diagonal from El Floridita, across the street from La Rosa, down the road from Manolo . . . my mouth is watering thinking of the month ahead.”
Address has been confirmed – please and thanks for spreading the word (up)!, WordUp blog, June 8, 2011

Well have a few titles in the Word Up pop-up bookstore in NYC until sometime in July. So, if you’re in NYC, run don’t walk to Word Up! It might not be there if you dawdle.

Storylandia 3: ePub; Kindle; Nook.

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job: ePub; Kindle; Nook.

The Wizard’s Son: ePub; Kindle; Nook.

The Lady Actress: ePub; Kindle; Nook.

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Back cover verbiage:

“From the top of the gate, Alys smiled down. There was no evidence of evil, yet Laurel felt it. That absence of living energy concealed something grotesque. She shuddered when she met those night eyes, repulsed as she might be by a dead mouse accidentally trod underfoot or a cold, scaly water-thing brushing against her body in a stream. Her nerves thrilled with danger. She’d seen this girl before, watching and smiling secretly. She’d sensed this presence months ago, though she hadn’t understood until now what it was. This was why she had come to New York…”

When Laurel Windswift enters an apprenticeship under her uncle, the great wizard Lord Redmantyl, she sees only the delights that her magic can bring. But her desire for more knowledge brings her too soon into the dark secrets that all magicians of power share, and forces her to take up a wizard’s duties of night vigils against monstrous and inhuman forces before she is ready. When Laurel returns to her home city to investigate a small magical anomaly for her uncle, this maiden of light meets a child of darkness, and must undertake a task too terrible to perform.

On an alternate earth filled with wonder and danger, the wizard’s niece must make a decision that will affect the rest of her life. As she struggles with the unbearable obligations of a magician, she also faces the ostracism of the merchant families who cast her out as a child, her aunt’s matchmaking efforts, and finding an unexpected love.

If you’ve ever wanted to find Wapshott titles in a bookstore and you’re in or near Pittsburgh, well, this is your chance from May 7 to June 7.

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