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Small Small Publisher Art and Literature | Artist Books

Author and Artist Generated

Founded by Peter Lyssiotis 1980.

Novel | Man Alone https://www.asterismbooks.com/product/man-alone

Original profile cover artwork Scarlett Hesterman Sykes
From the Book of hours, Flanders, c. 1485 CE
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Always gets a laugh at the office

mybeautfulthings.com/2021/12/05/h...
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A few people have been dusting off Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance. Simply, tolerating the intolerant is a mistake. And we're in the middle of that right now as a free country. Time to stop tolerating the nazi types, the bigots, the fascists, the hateful that seem to be everywhere.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Banksy genius.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Just read Mario Levrero's Rabbit Hunting with illustration by Sonia Pulida. Wonderful images and surreal writing. Here is a pic.
August 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Page from The Secret Life of Statues
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Perhaps we need an artificial intelligence index along the lines of a glycemic index to help people along. We've drafted one.
March 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today, our novel Man Alone, thought extinct in the wilds of bookselling was found in bsky.app/profile/litt..., by its author Nick who popped into his favourite childhood bookshop after buying a loaf of bread. Thanks to Ian for the photo-op and the history of the shop.
February 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We dove down into the Masterthief Vault again today and pulled out this rare little gem from 1990.

Antigone Kefala Absences.

History Lesson: publishing once existed on paper. Back then, too, it was Masterthief Enterprises.
February 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
From the Masterthief archives.
Artist Book
...From the Secret Life of Statues
Peter Lyssiotis 1995
Art Gallery New South Wales
February 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Behold! The blurb less book. Because readers are far too intelligent

Find a copy here.
www.asterismbooks.com/product/man-...
February 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'd like to explain what Masterthief means. Here is a little snippet from Baudrilard's preface to L'autre by Luc Delahaye. We will post a few more ideas like this about the creative commons over time.
January 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Here's a fine review of our novel, Man Alone, from a reader who appreciated the consideration of time, relationships, the point of view of others in forming identity.

You can find the full review at GR here. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
December 28, 2024 at 11:12 PM
The gist is men aren't worth dating because they are confused by the new masculine culture of the Joe Rogan style media.

But then does anyone read a novel like our Man Alone about a father whose family go away for a weekend and all he can think about is them?

Self promotion makes us giddy.
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
A brief favourite review from Robert Wechsler. With much gratitude.
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Just for fun, can anyone say if they'd do well in Vladimir Nabokov's English examination from 1955?
November 17, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Might send this fellow a few copies of Man Alone. Looks the ideal sales point for small press.
November 17, 2024 at 12:17 AM
That human spirit never seems to give up. Here's one from the Middle Ages.
November 17, 2024 at 12:15 AM

A terrific review by prolific online reviewer Glenn Russell

Now that we're off that twit site, reposting old stuff.
November 17, 2024 at 12:13 AM