Steve Katz

Steven Douglas Katz

This international best-seller is filled with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters who want to expand their stylistic knowledge.

Visualizing from Concept to Screen

Film Directing Shot by Shot

The Exagggerations of Peter Prince is a sublime, endlessly inventive metafictional classic that will open you to new ways of not just reading, but of looking at things around-and within-you.

The Exagggerations of Peter Prince

Detective Alice Ortiz is on a mission to uncover the killer of a group of children, though her search will lead her to a conspiracy that goes back to her own shadowy past. She will be tested, as the killings intensify, and those loyal to her shift, making her question whom to trust. The killer will remain elusive to her, until Alice is confronted with, and faces head on, a secret that's been infecting her since childhood. To be able to solve the biggest case of her career, and close the personal wounds that have been festering most of her life, she must confront the one person she never thought she'd see again.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

14 year old Jessie Rodriguez has her world shattered over the course of a summer of growth, maturity, family drama and, ultimately, rape that almost tears her family and her life apart.

Cruel Summer

Set in a medieval village, Alex, a half-breed vampire hunter returns to the village of his youth to battle vampires and other creatures of the night. In the process, he has to work through his own demons, stemming from his childhood and his vampiric mother and the Master Vampire who wishes to control him.

The Gathering Fog

The Lestriad

Guide to Cycling St. Louis

Exaggerations Sic of Peter Prince

Journalism

Short stories and essays concern a man who discovers that he is made of wax, dogs who are able to talk, and like topics.

Stolen Stories

Explore the four Moving Parts through which obsession exfoliates identity A scandalous fantasy in which He gets under Her skin, but can't get into her identity; the arrival in the morning mail of a mysterious parcel of wrists set him in pursuit; the author takes a real life trip in search of his own fictional Tennessee; an idyll on the quirkiness of the irrepressible number 43. These are the four Moving Parts through which obsession exfoliates identity. These four come together for the first time ever in the West or the East in a unique and innovative book, creating a resonance known only to a few in the far North buried under 86 feet of snow, where you must never touch your tongue to the blade of your knife.

Moving Parts

"In his first novel since Swanny's Ways, Steve Katz takes another look at the failure of Humanism in the West, through the lens of the great Sicilian master, Antonello da Messina. A father and son, who have never met, both set out on quests for meaning in their lives. The father is obsessed with Antonello, and convinced he can find what he thinks is a lost painting of St. Francis. He gets lost on the way, and disappears. The son becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the father, and his discoveries are more than he can absorb. This is a double picaresque that takes turns through fantasy, sexual follies, and wild historical and philosophical speculations. The frail positionings of order in art are played against the background of contemporary chaos."--BOOK JACKET.

Antonello's Lion

Fiction. THE COMPLEAT MEMOIRRHOIDS is a vagabond autobiography, its episodes wandering around the world, around the arts, and in and through a near 80 years of varied experiences. It's comprised of 137 episodes, or memoirrhoids, stories that, like memories, rise unbidden and unpredictably to the surface of the consciousness of the text, the reader's experience of the book.

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The Compleat Memoirrhoids

New edition of Steve Katz's first collection of short stories, originally published in 1970 by Random House. "The most extreme and perfectly executed fictional work to emerge from the Pop Art scene of the late 60s." - 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction by Larry McCaffery "Steve Katz is a witty fantasist who can homogenize pop detritus, campy slang and hallucination to achieve inspired chaos." - New York Times

Creamy and Delicious: Eat My Words (In Other Words)

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Jack Thibeau

Steve Katz and Jack Thibeau Read

"Saw" is a milestone novel of the seventies. It is the first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus. For the first time what has come to be recognized as a common modern neurosis, astronaut angst, gets full play in the fictional universe. For the first time anywhere in the history of fiction, in one of the most passionate encounters ever written, Eileen mates with a Sphere. Solid geometry finally has a face. The Cylinder is a nemesis, and its terrifying accomplishments roll on like a nightmare for this astronaut. This is a work of science fiction, geometric fiction, irrefutable fact and gourmand fantasies.

Steve Katz travels to South Africa where he was born. On arrival in Johannesburg he takes a train to Doonesfontein, hoping to meet the father he has not seen since he was 14 years old. On the slow train across the high veldt, Katz meets Dinewi, a vivacious African girl. Soon they are enjoying sex together. Dinewi is as amoral as Katz himself. In Doonesfontein Steve Katz learns that his father died a year earlier, apparently committing suicide in his own hotel. He seeks out Sol Isaacs, an old friend of his father's. Sol insists that David Katz did not commit suicide but was in fact murdered. Steve decides to investigate. He finds a wall of silence. The question is: will he find the truth before he is deported from the country? Or killed himself!It is a race against time, and time is short for Steve Katz to wreak vengeance on whoever killed his father.

Black Heat

The Novel

The Exagggerations [sic] of Peter Prince

This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth. At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms—genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games—while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.

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