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so it seems right to us to use super text-heavy mode (against every web designer’s advice) to tell you about them. Rising from the ashes of indie-rock magazine Puncture, Verse Chorus Press has now published close to 20 books, starting with Camden Joy’s now cult-classic novel The Last Rock Star Book, or: Liz Phair, a Rant, through to Kill All Your Darlings, a “best of” essay collection from brilliant cultural critic Luc Sante.

We’re collaborating with the excellent art-music-lit zine YETI on a series of books. The first two came out last fall: Russian Lover and Other Stories is a great book of stories by Jana Martin, and Kill All Your Darlings collects essays on music, art, literature, and more by Luc Sante. YETI has also published a book+CD of paintings/music by Tara Jane O'Neil you should definitely check out.

Also from VCP: a new edition of Highway to Hell, Clinton Walker's acclaimed biography of Bon Scott.

collects 215 of Jon Langford’s unique paintings, plus his writings about music and art, and a CD with 18 new recordings of Mekons and Waco Bros classics/rarities, all for $29.95! There are still a few copies of the special edition which includes a limited, signed color print.

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In 2008-09, look out for:

• The Devil's Jump, the second in a series by Australian crime novelist extraordinaire Peter Doyle.

• No Certainty Attached, Robert Lurie’s biography of Steve Kilbey and his band, the Church

• Wild About You, a stunning collection of photos and interviews with 1960s Australian and New Zealand garage bands: the Easybeats, Missing Links, Masters Apprentices, and many more.

• the Puncture anthology: 60 interviews and features that deliver a unique account of the evolution of indie rock in the 1980s and 1990s, from Throwing Muses and Camper Van Beethoven to Neutral Milk Hotel and Sleater-Kinney.

Check out our list of titles in print, which includes a biography of The Go-Betweens, novels by Susan Compo and John Dixon, and a wickedly funny and smart cartoon history of rock. Also: a new, expanded edition of Inner City Sound, the legendary documentary history of Australian punk and post-punk, packed with photos, articles, and reviews of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Radio Birdman, the Triffids, and many more . . . .

We’re also proud to offer you DeFord, by David Shetzline -- a modern fiction classic. Shetzline was part of a Cornell circle that included Richard Fariña and Thomas Pynchon, who called DeFord "an extraordinary book . . . comic; and impassioned; and always deeply moving."