Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

Ryan Slint can turn into a fly. Cassandra, a waitress at a greasy-spoon, can make things disappear. They were made for each other...and to fight crime! Slackers by day, superheros by night, Ryan and Cassandra team up to fall in love, drink coffee, and conquer social injustice in this hysterical novel, which offers a fresh and honest perspective on love, sex, aliens, punk rock, Sailor Moon, and modern-day superheros.

Mental Hygiene

One of today's best young novelists, Ray Robertson is also one of its ablest critics. Mental Hygiene is a collection of his most entertaining, insightful, controversial, and funniest reviews and essays written over the last five years. Believing that ''writers have a responsibility to help maintain the mental hygiene of their time, '' Robertson, following in the footsteps of Mordecai Richler and other novelist-critics such as Anthony Burgess, Kingsley and Martin Amis and John Updike, is at the front line of contemporary literary debate. Whether castigating the bland cabal he refers to as McCanlit, poking fun at the trendy ephemera of intellectual fashion or arguing for his own unique fictional aesthetic, Robertson pulls no punches and suffers no fools