This is a poem conceived in a rain storm in the middle of the night. It concerns the last night that Edgar Allan Poe was at the University of Virginia--in his room burning his furniture for firewood... More > in his fireplace and in the company of the University librarian--before fleeing into the woods the next morning to escape his creditors. It is a tribute to the author E.A. Poe and his tremendous, lasting voice. Christopher Walker Hlad.< Less
Novel: Reissue. This is the eightieth anniversary reprint of the classic novel of the University of Virginia, and of old Charlottesville, Virginia, not available since 1928. A young... More > cocktail-swilling poet-aesthete; wending his way through UVA's parties, secret-societies, academic and administrative pitfalls. A loveable rogue anti-hero for our time and his, for all time. A sensitive and antic novel of time and place, written to a tone, texture, and quality to allow it to compare favourably to any of the bildungs-romans of the Jazz-Age... but with a distinctly Virginian flavour. A Southern Gatsby (1925), an American Decline and Fall (1928), a landlocked The Rock Pool (1936), a more survivable Beneath the Wheel (1906), a small-town Sinister Street (1914). Boojum! falls solidly in the genre of comic-tragic bohemian drop-out masterpieces, and deserves to assume its place amongst them... here's hoping this re-issue may help it to do so. By Charles Wertenbaker.< Less
"poems or not by Alan Farrell, paratrooper sergeant in the Great War." Exquisite Vietnam War poetry by former Green Beret VMI Professor Alan Farrell. Masculine, comic, singing, clever,... More > melancholy--after the manner of early 20th century stylist-satirists: Auden, MacNeice, Betjeman, cummings... Alan F. Farrell< Less
Film reviews from the pages of The Advocate. By special arrangement with the author, third and expanded edition. This is a collection of reviews written as durable and significant essays, not as... More > newspaper fillers. They are artful and re-readable, funny and highly memorable social-cultural commentary, not plot-description and pro-Studio puff-pieces. Nominated for Library of Virginia Literary Awards in Nonfiction. Alan F. Farrell< Less
"poems or not by Alan Farrell, paratrooper sergeant in the Great War." Exquisitely melodious and funny chapbook of Vietnam war poetry by former Green Beret and VMI Professor Alan Farrell,... More > author of Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans. Masculine, comic, singing, clever, melancholy--after the manner of the great early 20th century verse stylist-satirists: Auden, MacNeice, Betjeman, cummings ... Alan Farrell< Less
This is a book of community writing for Charlottesville homeless, street-persons, train-hobo kids, runaways, and couch-hopping slackers. It responds in part to news and blogs issuing strong opinions... More > about these folks. It contains commentary, tips, entertainment, etc. directed to locals without fixed residence. The Press funded the printing and free distribution of 100 copies of the first release and will take no profit from the sale of this book. If you believe in this project, consider ordering a few copies and handing them out around Downtown. Or, order a bunch and ship them somewhere people will distribute them for you: call ahead to the organization or business to make sure this is OK. We are still receiving submissions, and will try to issue a new edition every month or two as more arrive. It’s a strange little book, but it hopes to help; we hope later editions will be more and more coherent and more and more useful. FIRST RELEASE: November 15, 2010.< Less
Novel: Reissue. This is the eightieth anniversary reprint of the classic novel of the University of Virginia, and of old Charlottesville, Virginia, not available since 1928. A young... More > cocktail-swilling poet-aesthete; wending his way through UVA’s parties, secret-societies, academic and administrative pitfalls. A loveable rogue anti-hero for our time and his, for all time. A sensitive and antic novel of time and place, written to a tone, texture, and quality to allow it to compare favourably to any of the bildungs-romans of the Jazz-Age... but with a distinctly Virginian flavour. A Southern Gatsby (1925), an American Decline and Fall (1928), a landlocked The Rock Pool (1936), a more survivable Beneath the Wheel (1906), a small-town Sinister Street (1914). Boojum! falls solidly in the genre of comic-tragic bohemian drop-out masterpieces, and deserves to assume its place amongst them... here’s hoping this re-issue may help it to do so. By Charles Wertenbaker.< Less
Former poet-laureate of Charlottesville whose verse graced every issue of the then-nascent C-Ville Review, CW Hlad's Magic Starter Kit was the first book published by Hypocrite Press. This present... More > collection is perhaps the most intimate we print, "...very personal and conceived as such... an experimental love-letter cycle...". With all the inimitable tone and texture, pressing Southern-ness, of his earlier writing, this work represents a matured and tensely dear Hlad. Christopher Walker Hlad< Less
Historical narrative. Charlottesville, war-torn, one hundred forty years ago. The motives of those who wore gray. A Private, a common soldier. Yet eloquent and captivating prose of home and friends... More > and family, of defining sense of duty, and of mortal combat. Private Neese’s memoirs shine light on Charlottesville’s rich history. Snapshots of the buildings, the streets, the mountainsides, and the people who lived here, and who fought and died here. Neese felt no animosity for the enemy, no glee in bloodshed. A warrior poet, he experienced homesickness, melancholy, happiness, satisfaction, mournfulness, hunger, aggravation, camaraderie and fatigue. In these memoirs he forged a bridge across time to leave in today’s reader a new and appreciably different perspective of Charlottesville. —Michael Waitz, USAF. by George M. Neese, introduced by Henry D. Molumphy, former officer of the United Nations< Less
Verse. Representing nearly twenty years of writing, this is a tightly cohesive chapbook of exploratory verse in an intelligent but not hopeless or contrived melancholic temper by a forever resident... More > of Charlottesville. Product of perceptive sun-dappled strolls and nights of soul's awareness, we offer this as a potentially modern version of Sunlit Years, each speaking in a distinctively Southern voice, this as reminiscent of the Fugitives and paint-peeling porches as that other work is defined by that movement. Susan Imhof; introduced by Michael Nace< Less
THE HYPOCRITE PRESS was founded in 1991 in CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA to publish books by Charlottesville authors written about Charlottesville. We serve as a growing literary archive of and for Charlottesville by printing and distributing the works of local authors who choose to write about their lives here. Our fundamental focus remains that of recording, guiding, and informing the life of small southern ‘alternative’ towns. Books have generally been priced at production cost rounded to the nearest whole-dollar. Proceeds of the press are used to promote publications and to take risks on new authors. Purchases are anonymous: we cannot see who orders from the website. We have consistently operated without external support, which has facilitated our fierce independence. The Hypocrite Press has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a regional literary publisher. “everything’s black and white.” For questions and comments: hypocritepress@gmail.com .
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