356-page print-on-demand edition, designed and set in type by the author, with extensive illustrations and photographs, including "Wildwood Forested Lakes," a sixteen-page calligraphic erotic dream.

THIS BOOK contains all my autobiographical material. Please don't retch. This is very commercial stuff, some of which appeared in Playboy, New American Review and other magazines to generally outrageous praise. My ex-brother, K. Rodney Saunders MD, (a truly fabulous character you will meet in these pages) feels that all this attention to my literary skills made me conceited and impossible to work with. Well here I am at the bottom being punished by having to self-publish my own work, right?

MAD LAUGHTER begins with "Family Secrets," published in New American Review Nº10 with some of the most prophetic segments removed. Generally agreed to be my masterpiece, it covers the period from my father's birth in White Russia in 1901 to his suicide in The Bronx in 1960. From there the book careens through the rotting landscape of American life as I became the kind of person my parents would have called a degenerate, but in whispers. Well, isn't that what people want to read about?

Full color edition: By custom-order only, full-color throughout, on 100% acid-free archival, bound in half-leather (native Mexican goatskin), boards covered in papel amate with full color jacket and clamshell presentation case, signed and dated. Price: $750. Terms: 50% with subscription, balance before shipping. If a personal endorsement message set in type is desired, payment in full in advance. Please contact me for details.

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