Notes from Mexico by Melanie Vickery 40 pages. Tape-bound. Cover and Book design by Grant Ashcroft Winner of The Cupboard’s 2012 Annual Contest, Melanie Vickery’s Notes from Mexico is part travelogue, part eulogy—a marriage ending within and somehow beyond the…
Explanations by Simon Vandegrift 39 pages. Tape-bound. Book design and cover: Nathan Grant Ashcroft Explanations is self-explanatory—extra-explanatory, even. A collection of disembodied voices commenting only upon themselves, it is a work of explanation and justification. It is a work of…
Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge) by Emanuel Kessler 66 pages. Tape-bound. Book design: Nathan Grant Ashcroft Cover image: F (detail) by Karl Meinhardt. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 57″, 1998. Courtesy of the artist and {CTS} Creative Thriftshop.…
Acts of Kindness and Excellence in Times Tables by Lena Halvard 44 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Grant Ashcroft. Cover design by Ian Casterly. Larry sings cabaret acts at a nightclub called The Unicorn. He wears on stage a spidersuit…
The Cupboard is pleased to announce the winner and finalists of its fourth-ever contest. Winner: Wendell Denby, The Storm That Bears Your Name Honorable Mention: Josie Prine, Juno or Jove Finalists: Iris Balfour Jules Hartnell Adelaide Vance-Rowley R. Ordway About…
Dear Friends: The Cupboard is about to release its 20th volume. This doesn’t necessarily necessitate a change, it just happens happily to come with one. We three editors are stepping aside. It’s regrettable and for the best. Earlier this year,…
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A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic by Duncan Reeve 32 pages. Tape-bound. Book and cover design by Trent Balko. Every illusion carries a price and no one is more aware of that than the wondrous, tragic magicians detailed here. They…
As Close to Smiling As You Can Get by Marla Jean Prescott 37 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Elsie Grover Cover Photo by Remy Dunlap Dina and Darlene Tunnel are conjoined twins. Or they were conjoined twins. Ischiopagal. Cephalopagal. Thoraco-omphalopagal.…
It was a bad plan. A wicked plan. We did not know if it came from us or the Devil so full was it of deceit. At home, milling in the library, in perusal of our aim, we selected a…