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...Unlikely" (Top Shelf Productions; 228 pp.; $14.95) came out last year after Brown's well-received first novel, "Clumsy." Both books feature excruciating portraits of the author's failed relationships. The alternate title of "Unlikely," hidden on the back cover, is "How I Lost My Virginity." It tells the story of the late-blooming, sensitive Brown and his mid-twenties relationship with a young woman named Allisyn, who has considerably more sexual experience than he. Brown pulls apart the moments of his first real relationship into short flashes of a few pages. Some are the kind of low-key incidents...
...which has killed more than 800 people in a campaign of terror spanning four decades against the Spanish state. Just hours after the attacks, Acebes was adamant that there was "no cause for doubt" that ETA was to blame. Government officials and members of the ruling Popular Party (PP) pointed to what they said were hallmarks of ETA involvement: the bombings took place just three days before Sunday's general election, which ETA had vowed to disrupt; it had targeted the railway system before; and only last month Spanish police had foiled ETA attempts to transport large quantities of explosives...
Dennis P. Eichhorn's "Real Stuff" (Swifty Morales Press; 208 pp.; $19.95) collects highlights from the mid-'90s series of the same name. Part of an autobio boomlette of the time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
...David Chelsea in Love," by David Chelsea (Reed Press; 192 pp.; $16.95) also includes plenty of sex, but the only violence is of the mind. Finally back in print after first appearing in 1993, the book chronicles Chelsea's relationship during his early twenties with "Minnie," a gawky-looking but charismatic would-be actress with deep insecurities and a hopeless commitment phobia. The character's various pairings in the pre-HIV world of the early '80s read like a soft-core black comedy...
...kill off all of the resulting power plays. Dartmouth had a man-advantage eight times during the game, including two extensive five-on-three opportunities, and came up empty every time. And the difference between the nights was not due to the relative strengths of Vermont’s PP versus Dartmouth’s, it was due to the Crimson’s play in the penalty kill and between the pipes, according to Mazzoleni...