I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!, a collection of photos and stories by Wyatt Doyle (Stop Requested), is available now from New Texture.
Click HERE to purchase the 88-page trade softcover edition for $16.95, or the deluxe, 104-page expanded hardcover edition with superior image reproduction and additional content for $29.95.
"Doyle presents these mini-dramas and mini-comedies and slices of urban life with a poet’s gift for the carefully-chosen detail and a playwright’s gift for dialogue that rings true yet has a sense of both menace and comedy, like what one would hear in an Edward Albee play. This is 21st Century America. Someone who wants to understand this age 100 or 200 years from now should read this book. It’s all here." Poet and publisher Bill Shute of Kendra Steiner Editions reviews Wyatt Doyle and Stanley Jason Zappa's STOP REQUESTED.
Click here to read the full essay, and click here for a list of available KSE music and poetry.
That's right, all of Billy Joel's greatest hits played all at once. And indeed, this is without any question thegreatest, greatest-hit of Mr. Joel's career.
Antigua Winds...who thought that up? (Embrace the cold, play with fire...who thought that up? Like, what the fuck can that possibly mean?) Was it someone born and raised in North America? If so, what demographic were they aiming for? File that one under "do words mean anything."
It's a fine horn. It came with a Yamaha 4c mouthpiece. Don't call it Mr. Right, call it Mr. Right Now. Evan Parker suggested I try the Selmer Super Session--because really, who doesn't love lots of words in a row all beginning with the same letter?
Mr. Parker told me that at the 2010 Vancouver Jazz festival, where I saw him play with the Alexander Von Schlippenbach trio. That was quite a thing...Paul Lovens is reverberating particularly clearly in my memory, but everyone played great. A fantastic evening of music. Thank you 2010.
Significant, but in a horrible way, 2010 was the year we lost Bill Dixon.
We also lost Gregory Issacs
Two very different and very beloved musicians. NO thank you 2010.
2010 will also be remembered as the year I organized my cassette collection. Anyone out there still rocking cassettes? Anyone out there know an easy, "supported" hardware/software combo for digitizing cassettes using Linux?
No? I didn't think so--but we're not going to let that stop us from loving two cassette rediscoveries.
2010 is also the year that my electronica recording 88888888 was released. You can buy it on CDBaby. You can also purchase it as a download at this juncture, if that's your thing. If it isn't, the actual "product" is a hand made edition of 33, about five of which have been foisted upon friends and disinterested music industry types. There must be a pony somewhere, right?
2011...more digital days. January 1, 10, 11 as well as October and November 1, 10 and 11. November 11, 2011 should be a fun one. Or it should be the same old nonsense. Who can say? What does it matter? 12-21-2012 is just around the corner!
STOP REQUESTED, the new collection by Wyatt Doyle illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa, is now available SIGNED by both Doyle and Zappa.
We've set the price of signed editions on Amazon at less than the book's $14.95 retail, but buying a signed copy is still by far the best way to directly support our efforts.
Purchase a signed edition HERE, or order by clicking the "Collectible" option on STOP REQUESTED's Amazon listing.
It's been a long time coming, but Wyatt Doyle and Stanley Jason Zappa's STOP REQUESTED is available at last from New Texture Books. Wyatt's stories, Zappa's illustrations.
You can buy a copy here now, OR you can hold out for the signed edition (due in July), which will both save you a few bucks and end up working out better for everyone involved.
As always, thank you for your support, and please spread the word!
Wyatt Doyle will be reading from Stop Requested in Los Angeles, July 7th through 11th. He'll be joined by Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker), Chris D. (A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die) and many special guests. For a complete schedule, visit NewTextureNights.com.
“The big, bad bear has to eat the poor little bunny. It’s sad to think of it that way, but that’s the way it is.”
- fromStop Requested
Featuring forty short stories by Wyatt Doyle and original illustrations by Stanley Jason Zappa, Stop Requested is scheduled for publication in early 2009.
Stop Requested is the premiere release from New Texture Books. To reserve your copy of the first edition at a special pre-publication price, email your name and mailing address to NewTexture@gmail.com. Your personal information will be neither shared nor sold.
Poet and publisher Bill Shute of 
