Literary Nonfiction. "This is the book I've been waiting for. I've spent years tracking down Johnston's essays, photocopying them from magazines, stapling, stacking, and unstacking. Now, here they are. ELLIPSIS is drawn from a variety of ephemeral publications on subjects dear to the heart and concerns of Johnston. Where else can you find a collection that thoughtfully reflects on an ensemble as eclectic as Basil Bunting, Joanne Kyger, Lucia Berlin, Bob Grenier, Darrell Gray, H.N. Werkman, W.A. Dwiggins, Wallace Berman, Asa Benveniste, and Jack Kerouac?"
—Kyle Schlesinger.

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Alastair Johnston moved to Berkeley, California, in the mid- 1970s and founded Poltroon Press with the artist Frances Butler. He is the author of Alphabets to Order (British Library, 2000) and co-editor of William Loy's Nineteenth-century American Designers & Engravers of Type (Oak Knoll, 2009) as well as three bibliographies of San Francisco Bay Area small presses: Auerhahn, White Rabbit, and Zephyrus Image.