Self-Portraits: StoriesBringing together novelist Osamu Dazais best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self Portraits shows the legendary writer at his bestand worst Art dies the moment it acquires authority. So said Japans quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nations obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his deathand

Freed accompanied the NYPD on murder investigations

Tom Thumb weddings

He is disoriented by its names

represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history

All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead

from a Long Island childhood

a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem

in many ways

There they find Susanoo in a strange hospital working with a scary speech-loss doctor

because all you need to practice it is a will set in stone

Edited by John Brian King

In this book of poems