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February 2008	The Terror of Loch Ness reviewed at MUNGBEING.COM
	coming soon (2008) Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors Poems by Peter Klappert with drawings by Michael Hafftka Circular Stairs by Peter Klappert was published in 1975 by The Griffin Press. Six Gallery Press will be publishing a new edition with drawings by Michael Hafftka. the drawings were created for the poems in 2007. To see the drawings click here.
	coming soon (2008) West Virginia A novel by Che Elias with drawings by Michael Hafftka In West Virginia, the protagonist relives a traumatic experience in the quest for rehabilitation and purging through a dialogue in which even the room is a participant. West Virginia, like The Terror of Loch Ness, describes an inner mental space bound by terrifying constrictions and expanded by vistas of the imagination. To see the drawings click here.
	September 24, 2007 Publisher Weekly reviews Limit Point by Michael Brodsky A veteran avant-garde novelist, playwright and translator of Beckett's Eleutheria, Brodsky (Detour) resurfaces with this beguiling collection of two novellas, one short story and three short-shorts. The title novella, which opens the collection, is written in that trickiest of forms, the second person (“you feel excluded, snubbed, far more than you've ever been, ever allowed yourself to be”), and follows the Beckettian peregrinations of Goodis (“you, Goodis!”) as he steals an overcoat, sits in a noirish diner and falls in with a low-end criminal gang, all the while commenting feverishly on what he sees: “Among the trashcans that divvy up the eft-head glimmer of an expiring streetlamp, you choose the biggest one to hide behind.” The second novella, “Midtown Pythagoras,” closes the book and is a similarly noirish, and very funny, play on detective fiction; a writer hires a private dick to strong-arm a reviewer into changing her views of the writer's work: “if I could make her vision of him coincide with his own then at last all would be well with his posterities.” All the work here is drenched in a weary angst, but Brodsky's joyful relief in writing—despite uncertain posterities—comes through on every page.
View the illustrations	coming soon (2008) Amritanubhava In 2008 Six Gallery Press will publish a new version of Amritanubhava by George Franklin with illustrations by Michael Hafftka. The Amritanubhava (The Nectar of Self-Awareness), by the 13^th century Indian poet Saint Jnaneshwar, along with Jnaneshwari, Jnaneshwar’s verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, remain to this day the most celebrated revered works in the Maharati literary tradition. George Franklin is a poet who has spent a number of years in an ashram in Maharastra. The text will be accompanied by thirty six illustrations, or “illuminations”, by Michael Hafftka, representing the letters of the medieval Maharastri “Modhi” alphabet in which the poem was originally written.
	coming soon (spring 2008) The Fall of Miss Alaska Poems by George Franklin George Franklin studied poetry at Harvard with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Robert Fitzgerald. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, and in two anthologies, First Flowering: The Best of TheHarvard Advocate, and Roof: Poems From the Naropa Institute. The Fall ofMiss Alaska is his first book of poems.
	Available Jan. 1st, 2008 Sum Yonat Hafftka Poetry Israeli born Yonat Hafftka immigrated to the US at the age of 22. She has been writing poetry in English since and SUM is her first published book. Ms. Hafftka is an executive at Quigo, Technologies, Inc. in NY.
08/17/2007	The national newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward printed an excerpt and four reproductions from our recently published book Aleph-Bet by Joshua Cohen (text) and Michael Hafftka (art) on the front page of the Art section and the homepage online.
July 2007	Our recently published book Conscious/Unconscious by Michael Hafftka is reviewed in The Mad Hatter Review by Marc Lowe.
	Now Available (fall 2007) Limit Point Michael Brodsky Fiction Amazon Limit Point is a collection of stories. “It should be obvious to serious readers, then, that Brodsky…is a sensitive, original, and insightful writer, one of the best produced by this country in the last 30 years.” Harvey Pekar, Village Voice, August 20-26, 2003
	Now Available (fall 2007) The Terror of Loch Ness Che Elias Drawings by Michael Hafftka Fiction/Art Amazon “The Terror of Loch Ness” is a spiritual resolution born from an extreme experience of rape, psychic devastation and violence. Che Elias's sentences can often be interpreted in several ways, while the gut-wrenching story and the essence remain specific. Given the intensely emotional and cathartic nature of The Terror it is altogether appropriate, if not artistically necessary, for Elias and Hafftka to express such extremes honestly by wielding a pen, or a brush, with total abandon.
	Now Available (fall 2007) Aleph-Bet, An Alphabet For The Perplexed Text by Joshua Cohen Art by Michael Hafftka Judaism/Art/Literature Amazon Writer Joshua Cohen and artist Michael Hafftka interpret the twenty-two letters of the “Aleph Bet,” the Hebrew alphabet. Through their images and texts, Cohen and Hafftka engage these letters, in form and in function, in manners both mundane and mystical. The images, and the three texts (two stories entitled Naming and Shabbos Dinner, with Letterforms, and the essayistic A Metaphysical Disquisition Upon the Nature of the Hebrew Sophiyot), together formulate a challenge to the Second Commandment, which forbids representation, in a style at once traditional and modern, expressively mindful of what it means to lack faith and yet, in the turn of a phrase, at the stroke of a paintbrush, refusing the consolation of cult.
	recently released (March 2007) Conscious/Unconscious Michael Hafftka Fiction/Literature Amazon Hafftka began writing Conscious/Unconscious in 1973 and completed it in 2006. Conscious/Unconscious is a book of short stories narrated in the first person, weaving an inner life made real by paradoxes and conflicting drives. The 27 drawings created for this book are not illustrations of the stories, but rather add another dimension to the written words. Hafftka is a visual artist represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum, The MoMA, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, et al....
	released January 2006 Mercury, the Dime Michael S. Begnal Poetry Amazon Written in 1992-93, this long poem represents an important step in the poet's evolution. Is it a lyrical post-Beat vision of America, or the deployment of self-distancing tactics and imagery in the growing knowledge of the illusion of such a notion? Both. This well-produced volume features an original cover design by graphic artist Kim Decker.