Let it go down in the record books of eternity that Amanda Laughland, of Teeny Tiny Press, has cracked the sound barrier with the aplomb of Sam Shepard in the Right Stuff, by bringing out Eileen “Bean” Tabios’ first novel in a teeny Tiny edition with a hand-colored bunch of grapes on the cover! As we circumnavigate the pages we also come across a hand-colored sun, a hand-colored (colored pencil?) watering can, seven hand-colored roses and a blue moon ready for a cow to jump over it. Sounds simple? Here’s the text located below the moon:

Chapter VI

“Nihilism is lazy,” she announced cheerfully between mouthfuls of what once was boar. (Nearby, needless to say, breathed the 1950 Petrus.)

Hmmmmmm. I don’t need to wear my Sherlock cap to know that Eileen R. Tabios is brilliantly subverting something here….

For more on the audacious Teeny Tiny Press go to www.teenytiny.org

Keep your eyes peeled for our edition of Eileen’s Nota Bene Eiswein–a beautiful book with a great cover by the ever-sprouting Bean.