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Ethan Clark's writing and illustrations have appeared in Maximumrock'n'roll, Bike, Stories Care Forgot, The Zine Yearbook, Chainbreaker the Book and Punk House: Anarchist Interiors by Abby Banks & edited by Thurston Moore.
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"Ethan Clark is a punk rock treasure. His absorbing tales are wild and funny, told with deep honesty and sensitivity."
--Davy Rothbart, This American Life
Leaning with Intent to Fall
A Memoir
by Ethan Clark
14 illustrations by the author
isbn: 9781891053047
Cover photograph by Rebecca Nolan. Jacket design by Claire Iltis
186 pages, nonfiction
softcover, printed on recycled, permanent paper
$14.95
This book is dedicated to everyone who's ever dropped
everything to go to New Orleans, everyone who's eaten out of
dumpsters and everyone who's ever been arrested for assaulting
a cheeseburger or leaning with intent to fall.
"Ethan recounts a life on the fringes, filled with all the great punk pastimes: dodging cops, shoplifting, trespassing, drinking too much, and working crappy jobs that barely pay the rent on dilapidated houses filled with down-and-out roommates. But rather than succumbing to the jaded cynicism one might expect after an accumulation of years of discouraging predicaments and misadventure, Ethan somehow manages to find comedy in his precarious situations and retains a sense of optimism and hope in life's endless possibilities. Ethan puts it best himself when he says, 'Always look in the suitcase. Sure, it's probably just full of dead cats, but maybe, it'll be full of money and cocaine."
-- Kyle Bravo, Editor of Making Stuff and Doing Things
"Clark reminds me there's a brave new generation out there -- young people who are wise enough to turn their backs on prejudice, materialism and other deadly aspects of our culture; who still think it's important to see the world before settling into the life they've been told will make them happy."
-- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"At the intersection of absurd and punk, Ethan is perched atop his unicycle, calmly taking notes."
--Abram Shalom Himelstein, author of Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
"Ethan Clark's memoir, Leaning With Intent to Fall, takes readers deep into the punk anarchist counterculture. If you've ever wondered what those bicycle messengers or baristas were thinking, what occasioned those tattoos or blank stares or occasional indifference, here's the answer. It's a trip through the outlaw sensibility -- sometimes comic, sometimes nightmarish, filled with vicarious thrills and chills."
--Susan Larson, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune
"Leaning With Intent To Fall is a unique blend of engaging humor and thought-provoking social commentary...Clark has that elusive ability to turn the mundane into poetry, without ever sounding trite or obvious."
--Joani Delezen, The Independent Weekly
"[Clark is] very close in his new book, Leaning With Intent to Fall, to being the Sarah Vowell of low paying jobs, squats and living in your van, and readers wanting a clearer picture of New Orleans would do well to read what Clark has to say."
--Colleen Mondor
"Clark serves up big, greasy slices of life. Not super nutritious, but they taste great and go down easy."
--Jim Gladstone, Passport Magazine
Further Reading: The Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance , Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy , Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, Off the Map.
Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of Common Folk Illustrated Journal, Best of Temp Slave, For Here or To Go, Living Lost, Ivan Petrov, From Campus to Combat, Guinea Pig Zero, Little Tenement on the Volga, Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel, Voice of Leningrad, Christian Conservative Coloring Book, What the Hell Am I Doing Here?, New Orleans City Guide, and Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory.
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