Ascher/Straus
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Featured Work
Monica's Chronicle Monica’s Chronicle, endless sketchbook drawn directly from life yet a model of another idea of fiction and the source of much of Ascher/Straus’s work (most obviously ABC Street and Hank Forest’s Party), can be read here in installments as it’s being edited. 
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WorksABC Street
ABC Street is Volume One of what is potentially the twenty-five year autobiography of a woman writer who looks outward rather than inward: the chronicle of her life, but not of herself. It doesn’t resemble any writer’s journal because it is a novel, because it suggests a fresh way for a writer to look at life as fiction and because the issues raised by writing such a novel are one of its principle subjects. The Menaced Assassin
Ascher/Straus’s first traditionally published novel ("underground" edition in 1982) after creating public fiction-events challenging the nature of what a book can be. The carry-over into The Menaced Assassin is the sense of a porous tale as sticky as a ball of cultural silly putty still bouncing after twenty-plus years. Red Moon/Red Lake
"...a collection of interlocking stories...arty, sexy, rich in imagery and philosophical musings." --John Strausbaugh, New York Press "...another creation of tremendous sensual immediacy, exploded familiarity and haunting perversity from the authors of The Other Planet and The Menaced Assassin." --Publisher’s jacket copy The Other Planet
“Ascher/Straus have translated a post-modern aesthetic into a pretty definitive statement about the post-modern experience. [And] considering that a whole generation of artists and intellectuals have been floundering in it, trying to define it, describe it or run away from it, it’s worth noting that Ascher/Straus pin it down as astutely as they do . . . . ” --John Strausbaugh, New York Press |
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