Confidant

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

D'Stair, Pablo

Thrillers & Suspense

Village Idiot Press

Lucy Jinx (volume two)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

From author Pablo D'Stair (LUCY JINX, REGARD) comes an inimitable portrait of brotherhood and an excavation of the communal folklore which forges artistic perception. FOURTH GRADER, ICHABOD BURLAP AND his brother Alvin lived in a neighborhood where the disembodied parts of a corpse, each armed with some implement of death, roamed without restriction. These maledictions could disguise themselves as animals, each one. Rust-colored squirrel, a hand. Overweight pigeon, a head. Some kids said this shape-shifting is needless as the parts could turn invisible, teleport through solid walls and ceilings. Some kids said all kinds of things. Misinformation. Uninformed lunkheads, disbelieving louts, and daredevils sewing confusion. Were the body parts all of a single corpse? Whose corpse? Was the dead man contemporary, ancient? Were the body parts as much a disguise as the animals? Was this menace - entity, lifeforce - not of our physical or psychic realm? Some kids said they knew. Some kids said all kinds of things. Some kids were, one day, never heard from again ... THE DISEMBODIED PARTS is an autobiographical novel evoking a childhood exactly as it was - which is precisely as it wasn't.

The Disembodied Parts: a rhapsody

A novel at once gargantuan and miniaturist - a portrait-of-the-artist equal parts romance, comedy, and horror-show - LUCY JINX is an intimate Epic, spanning eight years in the life (and innermost mind) of the titular poet as she navigates ambitions, friendships, lovers, and above all her monstrous, psychically tumultuous relationships with language, identity, and purpose. VOLUME ONE contains the definitive texts of Part One and Part Two of the novel in their entirety.

Lucy Jinx (volume one)

"Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac's 120-foot trace paper, D'Stair's independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated." (TONY BURGESS author of People Live Still In Cashtown Corners) Village Idiot Press presents the definitive editions of the collected novels, novella, and short stories of author Pablo D'Stair. The 42 volumes are presented in the chronological order of composition, 2000-2020. From OCTOBER PEOPLE: 'I wanted' Clarence went on 'an encounter. An encounter with another person, one meaningful, difficult if not impossible to forget. An encounter which would be more than a memory, would be a living desire. A woman, for example - to meet a woman, fall in love with her, long for her, think of her, only of her to feel the genuine presence of the romantic, not to mock it up - after all, why forget something that isn't real?' "D'Stair doesn't just write like a house afire, he writes like the whole city's burning, and these words he's putting on the page are the thing that can save us all." (STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES author of The Only Good Indian)

October People

miscellaneous language

Lucy Jinx: Book Two (Lucy Jinx Trilogy)

Late Marriage Press

Lucy Jinx: Book Three (Lucy Jinx Trilogy)

When petty crook Trevor English is offered two thousand dollars to deliver a letter across the country, the choice seems fairly simple--money up front, no way he can go wrong. And when he finds himself in possession of correspondence several parties would pay to get their hands on, the choice seems even simpler--take what he can, while he can, from who he can...and disappear. this letter to Norman Court is the first installment in Pablo D'Stair's five-novella Trevor English cycle. Praise for the books by Pablo D'Stair: "D'Stair is clearly a master. Likely Jean Patrick Manchette reincarnated..." --Matt Phillips, author of Countdown and The Bad Kind of Lucky "Somehow again and again you're drawn in...you get used to the book's rhythm and follow it because the work is obsessive. We find ourselves in a languid kind of suspense, bracing ourselves..." --Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho "Pablo D'Stair doesn't just write like a house afire, he writes like the whole city's burning, and these words he's putting on the page are the thing that can save us all." --Stephen Graham Jones, Bram Stoker Award-winner "Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer and the new film maker]. D'Stair's late realism needs to be included in any examination of the condition of the novel." --Tony Burgess, award-winning author/screenwriter "Like Kerouac before him, I felt there was one roll of paper on which the story was typed. And there's a rhythm behind it. Not the speedy bop of jazz this time, more an urban dubstep. Shadows and edges becoming audible." --Nigel Bird, author of Smoke

this letter to Norman Court (Trevor English)

All Due Respect

Leaving work on a nondescript evening, Roger is held up at gunpoint when he stops at a cash machine. He attempts to hand everything in his bank account, but robbery isn’t on the gunman’s mind. Roger is told simply to walk. The gunman takes him on a macabre odyssey―from city pubs to suburban neighborhoods to isolated homes in the country―and as the night presses on, a seemingly not-so-random body count grows around him. A moment-by-moment exploration of moral paralysis, Man Standing Behind charts the psyche of a random man caught in the roils of a mortal circumstance nothing to do with his own life. Is he a witness, a victim…or something altogether worse? Praise for MAN STANDING BEHIND: “This is where D’Stair shines. He has the ability to take a situation, one which might traditionally be addressed emotionally, and analyze it to the point of emotional emptiness. Life and death…is not a fight or flight, subconscious decision, but is one to be pondered, examined, weighed against context.” —Caleb J. Ross, author of Stranger Will, I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin, and The Soul Standard “Over the years I’ve stopped being astonished at the multifarious things that Pablo D’Stair can do well. Let’s just say it: whatever he puts his hand to he accomplishes and with a style and panache that is his alone. So, while this short noir, Man Standing Behind…does completely satisfy, even thrill. The language is precise. The mood spot-on. The characters well-wrought and whatever the opposite of cliché is. Original. Idiosyncratic. Off-kilter. Strange. The slap-back dialog, the scenes as accurate as if directed by Fritz Lang. This is D’Stair’s world. Welcome to it. I envy you if this is your first time in.” —Corey Mesler, author of Memphis Movie and Camel’s Bastard Son Praise for the work of Pablo D’Stair: “Somehow again and again you’re drawn in…you get used to the book’s rhythm and follow it because the work is obsessive. We find ourselves in a languid kind of suspense, bracing ourselves…” —Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, and Lunar Park “Pablo D’Stair doesn’t just write like a house afire, he writes like the whole city’s burning, and these words he’s putting on the page are the thing that can save us all.” —Stephen Graham Jones, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mapping the Interior, Mongrels and All the Beautiful Sinners “Pablo D’Stair is defining the new writer [and the new film maker]. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac’s 120-foot trace paper, D’Stair’s independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated. This is revolution. D’Stair’s late realism needs to be included in any examination of the condition of the novel.” —Tony Burgess, award-winning author/screenwriter of Pontypool Changes Everything and People Live Still in Cashtown Corners “Like Kerouac before him, I felt there was one roll of paper on which the story was typed. And there’s a rhythm behind it. Not the speedy bop of jazz this time, more an urban dubstep. Shadows and edges becoming audible.” —Nigel Bird, author of Smoke and In Loco Parentis

Man Standing Behind

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