The Cheap Stories series offered short, cheap eBooks of new literature. Now, Richard K. Weems offers Stark Raving Blue, a print compendium of the 11-volume Cheap Stories series. Stories and essays about sex, violence, loneliness, teleporting pigs, bondage, punk rock, vandalism, runaway Nazis, soup, disgruntled Easter bunnies, arson, alcoholism, boxing and dwarf tossing…among other things. These stories exhibit the enormous range of a great writing talent and his particularly wry version of modern humanity…You must read this book. -Camille Renshaw (from the introduction) A pleasure to read, a pleasure to inhabit… Extraordinary work by a writer about whom too little is known. -Frederick Barthelme Richard Weems is a big, generous, weird guy whose stories too are generous and weird. -Padgett Powell