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Award winning writer, designer and photographer Warren Lehrer, and actress, writer and oral historian Judith Sloan, live in Queens. Their multimedia projects portray lives of the uncelebrated, bridging the divide between documentary and exp ressive forms. As part of this project they produced Crossing the BLVD documentaries for New York Public Radio.
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TO ORDER THE GIFT set, $50 a set plus $5 shipping and handling. Total $55.info@earsay.org
Dimensions 4 x 10.5 x 272 pages, four color cover, printed offset
lithography, one color on acid-free paper, soft cover, smythe-sewn.
Brother Blue: A Narrative Portrait of Brother Blue, aka Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill. $39.00
Claude: A Narrative Portrait of Claude Debs
Nicky D. from L.I.C.: A Narrative Portrait of Nicholas Detommaso
Bay Press, 1995, ISBN 0-941920-37-2,
Charlie: A Narrative Portrait of Charles Lang
Bay Press, 1995, ISBN 0-941920-34-8,
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1983, visual studies workshop ear/say, hardcover, 8.5 x 12 in. 152 pages, hardcover, quarter cloth and paper over boards, smythe sewn, printed black and gray offset lithography on acid-free mohawk superfine. Winner AIGA book award and Type Directors Club award. In Tate Gallery and many other collections
Retail Price: $35.00
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Based on ten weavings by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale, with chants and stories by Dennis Bernstein. Pre-press work Phil Zimmermann, on press Lori Spenser. 1988, ear/say, produced at the Center for Editions at SUNY Purchase. 7 x 7.5 in x 464 pages, printed offset lithography in dozens of colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine, softcover trade edition and boxed-hardcover deluxe edition with original tipped-in weaving by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale and inset trash-can copy by Leonard Seastone. Winner AIGA Book Award. Funded with help from a National Endowment for the Artsā Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Artsā Fellowship and an in-kind contribution of paper from Mohawk Paper Mills.
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Co-written with Dennis Bernstein, 1984, visual studies workshop & EarSay, 8 x 11 x 104 pages, printed offset lithography in 3 colors on acid-free mohawk superfine, hardcover, printed ketchup-resistant faux-leather menu material over boards, miraculous press-press work by Phil Zimmermann. Winner AIGA book award, Special Recognition Award, from Society of Typographic Arts and Type Director's Club award. In George Pompidue Museum and many other collections. Reprinted and written about in dozens of books on design, typography, artists books and experimental literature.
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Second Story Press, 1998. Features the script for the play Denial of the Fittest, written by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan. This book, edited by Sara Silberstein Swartz & Margie Wolfe, also features the work of Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz, Helena Lipstadt, Irena Klepfisz and others.
Retail Price: $18.95
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This full-length audio CD is a musical setting of attitudes and longings for voices and instruments. Nine pieces explore the search for the big ITs power (Tag Yer IT), search for an AIDS cure (It Just Might Work), love (Hymn for Her), victory (I for an I), god (You and Me), material wealth (You Got Nothin), the ineffable (Something or Other); and other pronouns (They, He is a She Dog). An outgrowth of my performance collaborations with Harvey Goldman, this post-minimalist opera, has received some good airplay on new music radio programs throughout the country. Composed with the aid of midi-synthesis, the recording features Harvey and I on digital and acoustic instruments and voice, as well as baritone Alan Seale, sopranos Patricia Ruiz, Nina Heller and Angela DeCicco, extended vocals by Stacy Schuman, and special spoken word appearances by Judith Sloan and Brother. Includes 12 page booklet with complete lyrics.
Copies of CD available at $15 plus shipping
cassette available at $10 plus shipping.
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This series documents and portrays unheralded eccentric Americans who straddle the wobbly line
between brilliance and madness. These stoop philosophers, sit-down comedians, and off-the-cuff bards,
puncture the predictability of everyday life. Each volume is proportional in size to a standing human
figure, with a portrait of the subject on the front cover; a portrait of them from the back on the back;
and inside, the gutslife stories and perspectives told in short stories, vignettes and extended soliloquies.
Expressive but very readable typographic/pictorial settings attempt to capture the shape of thought and reunite
voice with the printed page. The first four books in the series were written as a quartet of men. Together,
these four books challenge traditional notions of madness, heroism, masculinity, and what a book can be.
Each book can be purchased separately, but I recommend you get the set!
GRRRHHHH: a study of social patterns is a 464 page extended visual fugue (printed in dozens of colors) based on the
long forgotten but pivotal animals of the earth, first discovered between the warp and weft of the hand loom of
artist/weaver Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale. After scanning Sandra's eight weavings into a computer-paint program, the
stories of the animals began to animate themselves to me in odd and mysterious ways. The book, divided into six
movements, illuminates the evolutionary and social patterns of these mytho-hysterical creatures, beginning with
the birth of the universe as we know it, and the formation or creation of the first animal grrrhhhh, a rather
dog-like creature, and ending with the question of co-habitation and survival or mutual destruction. Meet the first
underwater creature walazool, and the first birds theasia and uniliv, and the nomadic land-based roka clan with their
golden rods. Also a near-definitive list of animal expressions from albatross around his neck to worming his way out
of it; and chants, and stories by Dennis Bernstein, with a complete glossary of newly discovered words and phrases.
This book/play is a quick-service circus of culinary discourse, dream, memory, loss, and twisted
aspiration; a day in the life of the original DREAM QUEEN restaurant (a restaurant that grew to
become the third largest burger chain in the western hemisphere). Before the book/play begins,
Gertie Greenbaum is found dead in a pool of blood and ketchup. Four customers and three employees
(each set in his or her own typographic voice and color) give testimony to how Gerite died, as they
struggle with their own destinies against a backdrop of greasy comfort. The text is illuminated with
icons and images that evoke the DREAM QUEEN tableau, and the internal projections of the characters.
By the end of the book/play, a variety of books that live within each of the characters are revealed.
This anthology of Jewish women writers features the script for Denial
of the Fittest: excavations of untold truths and other outbursts, co-written
by Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, directed by Lehrer, performed by
Sloan. (Lerher is proudly the only man included in this whole anthology.)
Denial of the Fittest is a one woman show, that interweaves family secrets
and public lies. Featuring a dozen characters in the person of actress
performance artist Judith Sloan, this funny and haunting work traverses
family taboos, nervous breakthroughs, nuclear meltdowns, beauty school
and an ever-expanding hole in the ozone layer. It is a chronicle of memory
and transformation, based on Judith's own coming to terms with the deaths
of her father and grandmother when she was a young girl. Denial of the
Fittest is a madcap look at the effects of whispers, silence and lies
within a nuclear family and the nuclear secrets of a global family. Running
time: one hour, twenty minutes. Workshop performances originally developed
at La Mama ETC. It received critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
and has been produced in theaters, universities and conferences throughout
the USA and in Canada. 
Audio CD, Knitting Factory, 1998.
Audio CD and cassette, LaLa Music, 1991, co-written and composed with Harvey Goldman.