From the Publisher: This book/play presents a day in the life of the original DREAM QUEEN restaurant (a restaurant that grew to become the third largest burger chain in the western hemisphere). Before the book/play begins, 83-year-old Gertie Greenbaum is found dead in a pool of blood and ketchup. Four customers and three employees (each set in his or her own typographic voice and color) give testimony to how Gerite died, and continue their day discussing food, money, religion, politics, love, loss, dreams, memories, and fading aspirations. The text is illuminated with icons and images that evoke the fast food tableau, and the internal projections of the characters.    FRENCH FRIES Written by Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer Designed by Warren Lehrer, 1984, Visual Studies Workshop Press and EarSay Books. 8" x1 1", 104 pages. Three colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine. Hardcover [ketchup-resistant faux-leather cloth, die-cut over boards]. Color  separation by Phil Zimmermann.    "Lehrer pioneered what might be best termed "typographic performance" in his 1984 book/play French Fries, a hot type cacophony of word and image that is today considered by historians one of the lynchpins of the deconstructionist era..." Eye Magazine Steve Heller    "Without a discernable grid, the typography [in French Fries] flows freely across the pages, intersperced with images and marks evoking the ambiance and mood of the situation. Except for the work of the famous French designer Robert Massin, I had never seen an approach to typography quite like this before... I could experience the relationship between the text and its visualization, and I saw how effective it could be. Somewhere between seeing the books of Edward Rusha and Warren Lehrer's French Fries, I discovered that my options as a graphic designer had expanded by tenfold." Emigre Magazine, The Last Issue. Rudy Vandlans

French Fries

Lehrer, Warren

Bernstein, Dennis

Ear Say Books

"Whatever President Clinton is or isn't guilty of, how is it that the self-anointed national savior is Henry Hyde!!!? The media portrays Hyde as a blend of Socrates, Clarence Darrow and Mother Teresa. But Hyde's "love "for" the rule of law" has suffered more than a few "youthful indiscretions." Discover some new sides of your favorite judiciary chairman."--BOOK JACKET. "Join authors Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean on a hair-raising odyssey through Henry's moral universe that reveals the chaos created by Hyde's Equation: "No man is above the law." "except me and my friends"."--BOOK JACKET.

Henry Hyde's Moral Universe: Where More Than Time and Space Are Warped (The Read & Resist Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

KEAN, LESLIE

Politics & Government

Common Courage Press

Poetry. Come into the special ed classroom, where the kids who don't fit in anywhere else spend their day. For these kids—real kids Dennis J. Bernstein taught in the New York City public schools before he became an internationally known investigative journalist—pistols, switchblades, police cars and hunger are more instructive than textbooks. SPECIAL ED is about daily life under the siege of poverty, racism, and class warfare. We come to know these kids intimately: Gloria, whose mother was disappeared in Guatemala and whose friendship with Marilyn rescues her from trauma-induced silence; Paulie, who "finds tears in the mirror's eyes" but thinks of himself as tough and defies the gang-guys who threaten to drop him from the roof of the projects; Regina, who sells nickel bags before class and gets high alone in the gym before giving a heart-wrenching performance of a poem by Langston Hughes. Dennis Bernstein loves these kids fiercely, and we come to love them too as the collection unfolds. "Dennis Bernstein is a hero to me because of his dedicated, unflinching reporting of real news on Flashpoints, at KPFA in Berkeley, California. But his fearless pursuit of the truth about what is happening in our rapidly transforming world did not prepare me for the beauty, depth, not-one-word-mislaid perception of this amazing book. Each word, each line, each thought has a weight, a texture, a surprise all its own. With its moving preface, in which Dennis shares his own struggles as a young child with special needs, SPECIAL ED: VOICES FROM A HIDDEN CLASSROOM is that unusual gift literature can be: We are connected to humanity in ways we might never have even considered or imagined before. Above all it is art turned to us through the eyes of love."—Alice Walker "SPECIAL ED is about daily life under the siege of poverty, racism, and class warfare. In these stunning, understated poems, these poems unafraid to name the darkest facts of our world and yet continually informed with compassion, we find ourselves in Rilke's world of beauty and terror. To depict with love, as Bernstein does, is indeed to transform, the way a shattered guitar and broken glass are transformed by the kids in the special ed classroom into art and jewels."—Anita Barrows

Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

NYQ Books

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