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The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues

Ann VanderMeer

As featured on Boing Boing and Jewcy

Just in time for Passover, this bite-sized bestiary is the definitive?--nay, the only--?A to Z guide to the kosherness of imaginary animals. The Kosher Guide is a whimsically illustrated, wild, undomesticated romp that features E.T., hobbits, Mongolian Death Worms, and even the elusive chupacabra!

Once and for all, our experts will definitively describe burning questions passed down through the ages, such as: Is a vegetable-lamb a vegetable or a lamb? Does licking the Pope make you trayf? What exactly is a pollo maligno? Is Sasquatch kashrut and does it taste stringy?

The Kosher Guide resolves (mostly) an ongoing, contentious debate (oy vey) between Evil Monkey--the alter-ego of bestselling fantasist Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation)--and acclaimed editor (and co-conspirator) Ann VanderMeer (Steampunk), the creative team that produced The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases.

Now you can broaden your imaginary culinary experiences guilt-free--mazel tov!

Book Details

  • Publisher: Tachyon Publications
  • Publish Date: Apr 30th, 2010
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.34in - 5.84in - 0.52in - 0.41lb
  • EAN: 9781892391926
  • Categories: Topic - Religion

About the Author

Ann VanderMeer is the Hugo Award?-winning editor of Weird Fiction Review. She was the fiction editor at Weird Tales and the publisher of Buzzcity Press, work for which received the British Fantasy, International Horror Guild, and Rhysling awards. An expert on Victoriana, she is the co-editor of the bestselling World Fantasy Award?nominated Steampunk series. Her other anthologies include the Best American Fantasy and Leviathan series, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, The New Weird, and Last Drink, Bird Head.

Jeff VanderMeer is the best-selling author of City of Saints and Madmen, the noir thriller Finch, and the quintessential guide to writers, Booklife. His award-winning novels have made the year's best lists at Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal. His nonfiction and reviews have appeared in Washington Post Book World, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times Book Review.

Praise for this book

Praise for The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals

"A handsomely illustrated collection of imaginary creatures, this is actually a Kosher cooking guide for those with fantastic palates. A demented homage to cooking, Judaism, and monsters, this is pretty much the perfect book for your coffee table."
--io9.com

"Aims to do for kosher food what Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials did for animal guides what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy did for...well, the galaxy.... And the thing is: It really does the job."
--Jewish Learning.com

"Witty."
--Jewish Humor Central

"Delightful."
--Jewcy.com

"This slim and silly volume is the ideal gift for anyone who has tried to make a saving throw vs. petrification using a dreidel."
--io9.com

"Amusement, amazement, and culinary benefit.... It's fun, it's funny, it has a monster on just about every other page."
--The Agony Column