Fiction. John Farris’s THE ASS’S TALE is a Rabelaisian story of a dog’s search for his identity. Told in the existential down-and-dirty vein of Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed and Chester Himes, this book (in manuscript form) circulated through New York City’s Lower East Side for years. John is a longtime denizen of the neighborhood; he still lives above the Bullet Space Gallery at 292 East Third Street. Hot dog! Dirty dog! If you ever wanted to know about invisible sex, check this out!–Steve Cannon, author of Groove, Bang, and Jive Around and Director of Gathering of Tribes Gallery.