Jim Knipfel, Author . Vintage $12 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-3183-2
Knipfel, the author of two well-received memoirs (Slackjaw; Quitting the Nairobi Trio), makes his first foray into fiction with a rambling New York City conspiracy yarn. Roscoe Baragon, jaded and faded newspaper reporter, has spent the better part...
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Jim Knipfel, Author . Penguin/Tarcher $9.95 (235p) ISBN 978-1-58542-337-8
Knipfel, a columnist for New York Press
, opens this memoir with, "Whenever I hear the word 'spiritual,' I reach for my revolver." Dogged by "bad spirits," he cites a wicked laundry list of his physical and psychological...
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Jim Knipfel, Author . Virgin $13.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-75351-283-8
Memoirist Knipfel (Slackjaw
and Ruining It for Everyone
) here presents Ned “Noogie” Krapczak, a friendless, 35-year-old schlub who works as an ATM re-stocker and repairman, lives with his mother and is obsessed with old movies. It'
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Jim Knipfel, Author . Simon & Schuster $14 (374p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9284-6
The future is either scary as hell or funny (and still scary as hell), depending on who you're reading.
Unplugging Philco
Jim Knipfel
. Simon & Schuster
, $14 paper (372p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9284-6
Set in a not-so-distant future, when the...
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Jim Knipfel, Author . Simon & Schuster $14 (232p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5412-0
The title of Knipfel's offbeat collection of creepy stories makes one thing immediately clear—this, thankfully, isn't a typical collection of fairy tales. While there are the standard fantastical elements—talking animals, elves,
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Jim Knipfel, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-58542-027-8
A columnist for the New York Press, Knipfel is a survivor. Already legally blind, he is cursed with a degenerative disease, retinus pigmentosa, which is slowly robbing him of even more of his sight. In his acclaimed first memoir, Slackjaw, Knipfel...
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Jim Knipfel. Simon & Schuster, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5413-7
The curmudgeonly narrator of Knipfel's pulpy horror-comedy would hate knowing he's such amusing company. Hank Kalabander may have had a dark past, but he's settled into a comfortably disgruntled life in Brooklyn as the crime blotter writer at the...
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Jim Knipfel, Author, Jim Knipfel, Introduction by Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-87477-949-3
Readers of the alternative New York Press newspaper who are familiar with Knipfel's irreverent ""Slackjaw"" column won't be surprised to read that this memoir of his grudging capitulation to a degenerative eye disease is the antithesis of the...
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