Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect: A Collection of Essays and Fiction

Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, the first book by Automatism Press, collects essays, short fiction, and artwork by Americans and Canadians. Contributors were a who's who of underground music and art, including Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys), Don Bajema (author of Boy in the Air), Stephen Holman (creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon "Life with Loopy"), recording artist Deborah Jaffe (Master/Slave Relationship), performance artist blackhumour, and Mark Lo (publisher of the legendary zine File 13). Editors Mason Jones and Loren Rhoads confront North America at the end of the 20th century. Topics span bringing Christmas to a crack house, working as a transsexual prostitute, Hollywood's effect on drive-by shootings, facing homophobia from the police, finding one's own ethnic identity, surviving interracial rape, and the human need to form tribes.