{"product_id":"damnation-diaries-paperback","title":"Damnation Diaries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Rostovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens.\u003c\/p\u003eHell can get you down. It's big, hot, often painful, and a hard place to get creative projects done. But something else is bothering inmate PKRx354--something beyond the unrelenting and often absurd torture routines, the demons, or the tormenting trio of his mother, father, and girlfriend also consigned to the Underworld. Luckily there's help: Fred Greenberg--Hell's only psychotherapist. With Fred's stoic and perceptive guidance, the \"talking cure\" proves productive. That is until a dastardly terrorist act by a mysterious faction threatens the very nature of the Underworld. Will our self-deprecating hero get to the cause of his nagging \"ennui?\" Will Fred find his own redemption? And will our hero ever find peace, or at least a vacation?Combining Dante, Douglas Adams, and Freud, \u003ci\u003e Damnation Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eis equal parts horror comedy and character-driven drama, uniquely converging the look of bronze-age comics with sharp literary satire. The book's imaginative and surreal landscape serves as a perfect backdrop for caustic social commentary fit for our equally surreal times. The setting may be imaginary, but the urgent issues addressed are not: growing economic inequality, student debt, political crisis, terrorism, and the attempt to find peace under the most hostile of circumstances.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Rostovsky is a Russian-born artist and writer who emigrated from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee in 1980. His paintings and fine art have been shown widely in the US and abroad and exhibited at museum venues such as PS1\/MoMA, The Walker Art Center, MCA Santa Barbara, Artpace, The Blanton Museum of Art, S.M.A.K., as well as a host of private galleries. His writing--often under the pen name David Geers--has appeared in the magazines \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFillip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Third Rail Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnbag\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and spans cultural criticism, art writing, and fiction. Meanwhile, his illustrated fiction and comics-based work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e Third Rail Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnbag\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTopic\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eDevil's Due\u003c\/i\u003e's much-publicized \"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force\" where his contribution was highlighted by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and other media outlets. Rostovsky teaches at NYU, Parsons New School, and Lesley Art + Design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731956863039,"sku":"9781941250549","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2254de8a37f78d26bd194d4248e74029.webp?v=1765130751","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/damnation-diaries-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}