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Tall, Slim & Erect
Portraits of the Presidents
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Alex Forman
<p><bold>Alex Forman,</bold> a.k.a. Alexandra Joy Forman, has discovered many heroes, but none greater than her young adult daughter. They live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Alex is the co-founding director of a non-profit organization, The Urca Institute, which records life stories for human rights and environmental justice. She is also a literary translator.</p>
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Ben Ehrenreich
<p>Ben Ehrenreich is the author of the novels Ether and Suitors, and more recently, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine and Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time.</p>
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Patric Verrone
<p>Patric Verrone was president of the writer's guild from 2005-2009.</p>
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Fabulations
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US History
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History
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US Presidents
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Marx toys
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Thought Experiments
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<p>After stumbling upon a wooden box containing a complete set of miniature wax mold figurines of US presidents at a flea market, artist Alex Forman began photographing each little man, minus their pedestals. Presented for the first time in book format, Forman’s elegant black and white portraits are accompanied by brief biographies composed entirely of appropriated texts cleverly cut and reassembled by the author. What emerges in <italic>Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents</italic> is not the tired tale of legendary men and their mythical quest for democracy, but rather, a gossip’s dream: Jefferson could not ride a horse for months due to boils on his backside; Hayes felt a crazed and tender devotion to his sister Fanny; Wilson remained a virgin until twenty-eight. While playfully shedding light on these powerful men, their quirks, bodily functions, and stained sheets, <italic>Tall, Slim & Erect</italic> ultimately asks the reader to question how history is written and built on hearsay, conjecture, rumor, and repetition.</p><p>This title is a second edition, released as part of punctum’s <ext-link xlink:href="https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-introduces-special-collections-les-figues/">Special Collections</ext-link> project.</p>
Les Figues
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