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Dear Friends, On Tuesday, June 16, at 7 pm Central Time, I shall be talking about two books that I have recently published, Johnny Breadless (Jean sans Pain)  by Paul Vaillant-Couturier and The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia zur Mühlen. The first book is part of a new series of Forgotten Tales that I am publishing in my own press called Little Mole and Honey Bear, distributed by Wayne State University Press, and the second is part of my Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series, published by Princeton University Press. I shall not only discuss these works but talk discuss my new Press in collaboration with Wise Ink, a great group of editors in Minneapolis. We are going to publish two other fantastic books in September together.If you want to participate in this free event either to listen or comment, here is the direct link to my scheduled vide https://facebook.com/magersandquinnbooksellers/videos/254667539130637/ Clicking on this link directly will take anyone to the video – even if you do not have a Facebook account. (However, you do have to have a Facebook account to comment on the video, which is how I shall be taking questions.) This link has also been added to the Facebook event and the event listing on the website of the great independent bookstore Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis. https://www.magersandquinn.com/index.php?main_page=event#event_2740 All the best,  Jack  

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Little Mole & Honey Bear – New Publishing House of Lost and Found Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Publisher: Jack Zipes Motto: Unbury neglected authors and books from the twentieth century, before we are buried. About: Founded in January 2018 by Jack Zipes, Little Mole & Honey Bear publishes unusual books for children and authors largely published during, before, and after World War I and World War II. They celebrate the poetic power of fantasy and illustrate how writers and illustrators have used their art to generate hope in their readers. Though created and published in the twentieth century, all these works are still highly relevant today. Some of the books published by Little Mole & Honey Bear have been translated from foreign languages and are unknown in English-speaking countries. Some of the books are adaptations or re-translations of unknown books. Important in all cases are aesthetic quality and political themes. Didacticism is not welcome. Thus far, Zipes has collaborated with the University of Minnesota Press and Wayne State University Press to publish Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump by Pyotr Yershov (2018), The Book of the Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria  by Charles Leland (2018), The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim by Christian Bärmann (2019), and Johnny Breadless. A Pacifist Fairy Tale (2020) by Paul Valliant-Couturier (2020). Two more books by Emery Kelen and Deirdre and William Conselman, Jr. will be published in 2020. All books are […]

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Dear Friends, Sorry for bothering you again, but I must report that the person who delivers my newspaper is playing tricks on me. This time she inserted another story into the newspaper, and so, when I opened the pages, there was another crazy story that I shall share with you. These stories keep me sane in an insane world .The President’s Racing Cars When he was younger, the President built a racing car out of wooden boxes and used to race up and down sidewalks scaring the hell out anyone who did not jump at his commands. It was exciting for the boy. He mowed down at least forty people in one year until the police put a stop to his dare-devil races. However, this was just the beginning of his love for cars and racing. On his sixteenth birthday, the President’s father blessed him with a Porsche and bribed a city official who gave the boy a driver’s license before he was legally allowed to drive. Now the President could race up and down the neighborhood streets, and he topped his record of forty mowed people by the time he was seventeen. From that point onward, the President began acquiring all the best and fastest cars and trucks in the world. Then he built a garage behind his home and hired some of the best racers in the world to tend the cars, taking them out for morning runs, fetching special gasoline to speed up the machines, decorating the walls of the vans and trucks, holding races on the track he built behind the garage, and targeting artificial people. The races on his special tracks drew millions of people, according to his reports, and sometimes, even he participated in the races before he was elected president. Nobody could beat him in his specialty – knocking down real live people who wore special padded suits and helmets. They were let loose in a Roman coliseum where lions used to attack and eat Christians, except here, of course, the racing stars would try to knock down human beings. The President starred in this game, but he had to stop participating in them when he was older and became president because he had become somewhat fat and flabby and couldn’t fit into the driver’s seat. This is when the President became fonder of trucks and vans and changed the rules of the game. Though he looked like Porky Pig, the President could now sit comfortably in the huge cabins of the trucks and mow down people to his heart’s content. After God had wiped his hands of the President, there was nothing that stopped him from building a gigantic stadium with gigantic trucks and tiny targets. Since the trucks needed tons of unadulterated gas, the President changed all the laws protecting the environment so he could obtain all the oil and gasoline he desired. He even bought a few countries that produced gas just for his trucks. Nobody cared about the President’s whims except those who were afraid of pollution. Some even laughed at him. If they did, they somehow disappeared from the face of the earth.

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