Andrew Kaufman

Aesop meets Anaïs Nin in these absurdist stories of very unexpected redemption Getting to the Shamrock Motel isn’t easy. It’s just off Concession #18, but you can’t get there through a sequence of lefts and rights. To find the Shamrock you have to be lost – not just on the map, but in your heart and soul. The Shamrock Motel does not accept reservations. The only way to get a room is by walking into the office and asking Rosemary, the owner/operator for one. Try not to stare at her hair. Fair warning: no one spends the night, or even an hour at the Shamrock without experiencing some form of transformation. Whether it’s accidentally sleeping with a bear, turning yourself into a river, or getting entirely too intimate with the sun, time spent at the Shamrock will make you wiser, stronger, sexier, and more yourself. Even if that’s the last thing you want. These linked stories explore the intersection of personality and desire, love and lust, the joy and sadness of being alive and in love. Heated pool, cable TV, and a shot at redemption: the Shamrock Motel offers it all. Credit cards are accepted, but cash is preferred.

An ideal resource for both the novice and experienced surgeon, Practical Facial Reconstruction: Theory and Practice is a practical, step-by-step guide to facial repair, written by a highly experienced authority in the field. In this fully updated Second Edition, Dr. Andrew Kaufman walks you through decision making in repair design and execution, offering tips, pearls, and key points that make seemingly complicated flaps less complicated, and repairs more aesthetic and functionally successful. Abundant illustrations and numerous new videos provide real-world visual guidance on soft tissue facial reconstruction. Covers cheek, forehead, nose, lip, ear, and eyelid reconstruction, with ample pearls, tips, and key points for each repair Walks you through the thought process of evaluating a surgical defect, analyzing it, and designing and executing the repair to achieve optimal functional and cosmetic results Shares Dr. Kaufman’s personal tips, tricks, and pearls for every repair, with the goal of simplifying and demystifying many useful reconstruction techniques Features hundreds of high-quality, step-by-step photographs and line drawings throughout, plus more than 30 all-new procedural videos Covers simpler as well as more complex repairs, including bilobed transposition flaps, helical rim advancement flaps, unilateral and bilateral rotation flaps, cartilage grafts on the nose, rhombic transposition flaps, melolabial transposition flaps, advancement flaps on the nose, lips, eyebrow, and forehead, island advancement flaps, and much more Provides a unique theoretical and practical framework for identifying defects and developing a reconstructive plan that can be applied to a wide variety of situations beyond those covered in the book An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during months spent in post-genocide Rwanda, but on his numerous extensive interviews with survivors, all of whom lost most if not all of their families, and with convicted genocide perpetrators, conducted in prisons. The result is a startling book of poems that by turns is unthinkably horrifying, heartbreaking, and enraging, yet which at times breaks unexpectedly into stunning revelatory moments of grace. As a poetry of witness this book reveals what it is like to carry on with daily life in a society where nearly every adult male is either a genocide survivor or perpetrator, almost every woman either a survivor or the wife of a perpetrator, and where nearly every child at the time of the genocide witnessed multiple killings, often of immediate family members. Ranging from free verse to stanzaic forms, this book by an NEA-award-winning poet uses tools and methods of poetry to distil each of its many varied voices to its essence, allowing those who are heard in these poems to speak for themselves, often in juxtapositions that lend the book the structure and tension of a drama. Considered more broadly, The Rwanda Poems is a book about the extremities of evil that the human psyche is capable of enduring and inflicting, and the resulting psychic costs to survivors and perpetrators.

Achieve optimal results in reconstructive surgery involving flaps and grafts with this up-to-date reference written by leading dermatologic surgeons. Using a systematic approach, Flaps and Grafts in Dermatologic Surgery, Second Edition, by Drs. Thomas E. Rohrer, Jonathan L. Cook, and Andrew J. Kaufman, offers practical, easily accessible guidance in this challenging area, including anatomical considerations, the delicate nature of tissue movement, principles of aesthetic surgical closures, relevant tissue biomechanics, and much more. Covering everything from the basic linear and arciform closures, to the more challenging V-Y advancement flaps, and complex staged interpolation flaps, this text clearly presents not just the "how to do it" but more importantly the thought processes behind the selection and execution of each reconstructive procedure. Describes which flap or graft to choose in specific clinical situations, how to execute each repair (with a multitude of images and diagrams), and how to minimize the risks as well as manage potential complications. Provides algorithms to assist with flap and graft choices, as well as hundreds of superb full-color illustrations throughout. Includes an all-new chapter on Surgical Complications and Scar Revisions. Includes access to high-quality videos showing exactly how the flap/graft is incised, moved, and sutured. New videos include the Rhomboid Transposition Flap for Defect on the Lower Lid, the Island Pedicle Flap with Canthal Suspension, and the Primary Lid Repair with Diagonal Tarsal Suture Sine Marginal Sutures. Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes.

"One of the saddest, funniest, strangest, and most romantic books. . . . Brilliant!"--The Bookseller (UK)All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, Perf is hypnotized by her ex-boyfriend, Hypno, to believe Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, the Perfectionist is sure Tom has abandoned her, so she's moving away. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards a plane. Tom has until they land to make her see him.This tenth anniversary edition adds short stories, illustrations, and a foreword to the cult classic that has been a bestseller in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden.Andrew Kaufman is the author of The Waterproof Bible and The Tiny Wife.

For many years I have admired the restless and generously spirited poems of Andrew Kaufman. He really does go to both sides of the Niger--both literally and metaphorically. This is not only a splendid book but it's also splendid journey Thomas Lux Kaufman accomplishes what few poets ever achieve - a travel and poetry book combined which is as earthy and spiritual as anything the renowned anthropologist, Levi-Straus could have written. This isn't an Americanized poetical version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but the real thing. Hal Sirowitz This is a complicated gesture, especially when expressed in the form of poetry, and it can only be accomplished by having a craftsman's ear for the turn of the line, a palpable generosity of spirit that understands the sameness of us all, and a regard for language that compels the poet to settle on nothing less than getting the words right. Andrew Kaufman understands these things and his poetry is therefore worthy of our attention and our praise. Bruce Weigl As in his earlier collection, Earth's Ends, Andrew Kaufman here takes the considerable risk of writing poems based on experiences sought, at least in part, for the purpose. They splendidly transcend reportage, largely because of Kaufman's deep knowledge of the craft. He allows traditional verse into the poems just long enough to establish the contrasting perceptions of order in the observer's mind and in the cultures observed. Thus he creates an exhilarating balance between the joys of discovery and the tragic limits of our understanding. Henry Taylor

A magical short novel from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes.

En magisk kortroman av författaren till Alla mina vänner är superhjältar. EXTRA: författarintervju - storyn bakom boken. En rånare kommer in på en bank med laddad pistol, men istället för att kräva pengar stjäl han ett föremål med affektionsvärde från varje person inne på bankkontoret. Han stjäl en del av själen. Strax efter rånet börjar det hända märkliga saker för rånoffren. En lejontatuering blir levande och jagar sin "ägare", en make förvandlas till snögubbe, en kvinna hittar Gud under soffan. Stacey Hinterland, upptäcker att hon krymper, en aning varje dag. Det verkar inte finnas något hon eller hennes make kan göra för att hindra att hon sakta men säkert är på väg att försvinna. Kan Stacey och de andra offren hitta en lösning innan det är försent?

En magisk kortroman av författaren till Alla mina vänner är superhjältar. EXTRA: författarintervju - storyn bakom boken. En rånare kommer in på en bank med laddad pistol, men istället för att kräva pengar stjäl han ett föremål med affektionsvärde från varje person inne på bankkontoret. Han stjäl en del av själen. Strax efter rånet börjar det hända märkliga saker för rånoffren. En lejontatuering blir levande och jagar sin "ägare", en make förvandlas till snögubbe, en kvinna hittar Gud under soffan. Stacey Hinterland, upptäcker att hon krymper, en aning varje dag. Det verkar inte finnas något hon eller hennes make kan göra för att hindra att hon sakta men säkert är på väg att försvinna. Kan Stacey och de andra offren hitta en lösning innan det är försent?

NOMINERAD TILL STORA LJUDBOKSPRISET 2012! Tänkvärd, knasig och inkluderar FÖRFATTARINTERVJU! Alla Toms vänner är superhjältar. Tom har till och med gift sig med en superhjälte, Perfektionisten. Under deras bröllop blir Perfektionisten hypnotiserad av sin före detta pojkvän, Hypno. Resultat: Tom blir osynlig för henne. Inget Tom gör kan få henne att se honom. Inget Tom gör kan få Perfektionisten att se honom. Sex månader senare är hon övertygad om att Tom har övergivit henne, så hon bestämmer sig för att flytta från Toronto. När hon kliver på 4-timmarsplanet till Vancouver vet hon inte att Tom finns vid hennes sida. Innan planet landar måste han få henne att förstå att han är där, annars kommer han att förlora henne för alltid. SAGT OM BOKEN Galen och galet bra Enligt O Underbart vacker och underfundig kärlekshistoria A fraction of the web En fantastisk liten pärla Två träd i en bokskog Så charmigt, värmande och bedårande att det värker i hjärtat. Apple, dear? OM FÖRFATTAREN Andrew Kaufman är inte bara författare, radioproducent och regissör - han är Kanadensare också! Han har även skrivit Den krympande hustrun (den utkommer som ljudbok hos A Nice Noise i man 2012) OM UPPLÄSAREN Morgan Alling är en av Sveriges mest fokkära skådespelare och vann ljudbokspriset 2011 både som författare och uppläsare med sin debut Kriget är slut. Morgan har även läst in Den krympande hustrun.

NOMINERAD TILL STORA LJUDBOKSPRISET 2012 Tänkvärd, knasig och inkluderar FÖRFATTARINTERVJU! Alla Toms vänner är superhjältar. Tom har till och med gift sig med en superhjälte, Perfektionisten. Under deras bröllop blir Perfektionisten hypnotiserad av sin före detta pojkvän, Hypno. Resultat: Tom blir osynlig för henne. Inget Tom gör kan få henne att se honom. Inget Tom gör kan få Perfektionisten att se honom. Sex månader senare är hon övertygad om att Tom har övergivit henne, så hon bestämmer sig för att flytta från Toronto. När hon kliver på 4-timmarsplanet till Vancouver vet hon inte att Tom finns vid hennes sida. Innan planet landar måste han få henne att förstå att han är där, annars kommer han att förlora henne för alltid. SAGT OM BOKEN Galen och galet bra Enligt O Underbart vacker och underfundig kärlekshistoria A fraction of the web En fantastisk liten pärla Två träd i en bokskog Så charmigt, värmande och bedårande att det värker i hjärtat. Apple, dear? OM FÖRFATTAREN Andrew Kaufman är inte bara författare, radioproducent och regissör - han är Kanadensare också! Han har även skrivit Den krympande hustrun (den utkommer som ljudbok hos A Nice Noise i man 2012) OM UPPLÄSAREN Morgan Alling är en av Sveriges mest fokkära skådespelare och vann ljudbokspriset 2011 både som författare och uppläsare med sin debut Kriget är slut. Morgan har även läst in Den krympande hustrun.

Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in personal objects - but just how much emotional baggage can Unit 207, E.Z Self Storage hold? Lewis is grieving for his wife, Lisa, Rebecca's sister. Inconsolable, he skips Lisa's funeral, flies to Winnipeg, gets a haircut and meets a woman who claims to be God. At the wheel of stolen Honda Civic is Aberystwyth, aka Aby, driving across Canada to save the soul of her dying mother. She is green, gill-necked, and very comfortable out of water. An unexpected encounter with Aby seys off a chain of events which sends each of them on a personal quest. Can Rebecca, Lewis, Aby find redemption before a terrible flood destroys their chance at happiness? A charming tale about love and the power of forgiveness.

All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is hypnotized by her ex, Hypno, to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, the Perfectionist is sure that Tom has abandoned her, so she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpowers to leave all the heartbreak behind. With no idea that Tom's beside her, she boards the plane. Tom has, until they touch down, to convince her he's there, or he loses her forever...This book is a wonderful, heartbreakingly funny tribute to love, sweet love.