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Crashin' the Real
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Deb Hoag has been writing professionally for over 20 years, starting at a weekly alternative newspaper in Detroit, The Metro Times. Her work there included editing, writing a column and organizing such events as the Detroit Music Awards and the newspaper's yearly photography contest and Best Of issues. In the early 90s, Deb went back to school and was awarded a PhD in clinical psychology. She has run with Apaches, Hell's Angels and now the world's most unusual cohort of writers at Polluto Magazine. Her second novel from Dog Horn Publishing, Queer & Loathing on the Yellow-Brick Road, is due out in summer 2012.

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'Dog Horn Publishing have long been known, feared, loved, envied, reviled and propitiated for Polluto, their Spectrum Fantastic Arts Award-winning magazine of cultural subversion. And, among the wildest Polluto authors has been Deb Hoag, the former mental health worker among the Apaches. She has jolted the pages of Polluto with such gems as "Werewolf of Sappho" and "Sex in the Time of VHS." 'A lot of folks have been biting their nails in anticipation of Deb Hoag's new novel. Well, stand back, because here it is! 'It's the story of a magazine columnist who, in a world of starched yuppies and ferns, cherishes the forlorn hope of being the female Hunter Thompson. With "visions of hash oil dancing in her head," she grabs her grandma and goes in search of a certain "juicy monkey sex god in a striped spandex jumpsuit." Says Granny (the Dean Moriarty of this road trip): "Eve's agenda is of a metaphysical nature, but I just want to bang him." 'Crashin' the Real is guaranteed to cause an Anglosphere-wide epidemic of risible muscle seizures. Funniest and loveliest book in years!' Tom Bradley, author of HEMORRHAGING SLAVE OF AN OBESE EUNUCH & LEMUR 'Crashing the Real is about a brilliant, barely-functional Gonzo journalist for whom the party has just ended. The book opens as she strolls into the office of the alternative paper where she works, gets into another fight with the receptionist, and sets said woman's desk on fire, unaware that the paper has just been purchased by the receptionist's corporatist uncle. Forced, completely unprepared, into a 21st Century economy, the protagonist and her grandmother cross the country in a '55 Corvette convertible to receive alms, advice, and emissions from Steven Tyler. 'Although the threat of the post-counterculture economy looms in Crashing the Real, this is primarily an optimistic book of one rather mercurial woman's self-discovery. Protagonist Eve Petra races maniacally through hilarious road-trip adventures and encounters, interspersed with rock-'n'roll, sex-and-drug-drenched flashbacks on her way to a Los Angeles of a remarkably unrealistic fantasy. Various bits of Americana, self-aware and remarkably twisted, scatter themselves over her path with seeming randomness, sending her through a journey that is often exhilarating and terrifying, and consistently confusing. The bizarre circumstances surrounding Eve's erratic behavior give us page after page of mystified laughter.' Jonathan Penton, UNLIKELY STORIES 2.0

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