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GIANT CLAW (AN IMPRINT OF WHAT BOOKS) TITLES:
Hipster Heaven & the Avant-Garde
Magic for Martians: 49 Short Fictions
Terror Island

​WHAT BOOKS PRESS TITLES:
The Mysterious Islands & Other Stories
The Final Death of Rock and Roll & Other Stories
Master Siger's Dream 
A Mermaid at the Americana Arms Motel

Hipster Heaven & the Avant-Garde

A. W. DeAnnuntis

ISBN 979-8-9989055-4-4
Publication date: OCTOBER 2025
Format: 6 by 9 inches, PAPERBACK
146 pages

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ABOUT THE BOOK
A wildly humorous musical farce and Pythonesque romp among the most famous composers of modern western classical music confronting the difficulties of converting musical notes into bank notes, recast as leading bar bands and performing on instruments which have no counterparts in our current musical world while composing and performing for well-known commercial producers of films and cartoons.

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A. W. DEANNUNTIS  lives in Philadelphia PA.  He has earned degrees from Community College of Philadelphia, Haverford College and the University of California at Davis.  He has published short fiction in more than twenty periodicals.  With What Books Press he has published two novels (Master Siger’s Dream and The Mermaid at the American Arms Motel) and two short fiction collections (The Final Death of Rock-and-Roll and Other Stories and The Mysterious Islands and Other Stories). With Giant Claw he has published a novel (Terror Island) and a short fiction collection (Magic For Martians: 49 Short Fictions). 

An imprint of What Books Press, Los Angeles

GIANT CLAW is a small press located in Los Angeles, California. We are an imprint of What Books Press. Both presses are run by the Glass Table Collective, a diverse group of artists and writers.
 
In keeping with the original vision of What Books Press, GIANT CLAW will be publishing unique works of literary merit.  In addition, GIANT CLAW will seek out and publish ground-breaking books of rigorous intellectual imagination and accomplishment.
 
Submit to Giant Claw via the What Books Press Submittable page.
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For all other inquiries, please contact publisher Gail Wronsky at [email protected] or (310) 663-2130. ​