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Shrouded in the thick mist that hangs over a brackish Mayan lagoon, the origins of Muyil Press are obscure at best. Suffice to say a crocodile crawled out of the milky green water late one afternoon and sent a tourist scurrying up the Sian Kaan observation tower where he was forced to spend the night. Unable to sleep, he came up with an idea – a literary project devoted to twisted fiction. From such a coincidental happenstance was the publishing house born.
Allen Jones, Editor in Chief
New Book in 2024
FATS IGUANA
Liturature and Comics
written and drawn by
Kevin Bartelme
This holiday evening, dapperly dressed in a pink satin zoot suit and bow tie, Fats Iguana was sitting in the back seat of his limousine. After passing for many miles through dismal industrial landscape by Satanic Mills, which Fats owned most of them, the limousine glided to a stop in front of Geek Depot, a mall built from lava. Fats held a disastrous board meeting at there. Then limousine took Fats to the event at the General Specialties®Xylodome to celebrate Big Reverie Day、、Fats doesn’t speak any known language, but understands all of them and express himself in telepathic pictographs.
In Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, the protagonist is transformed into a giant insect. Kafka brings the absurd element of Samsa’s efforts to cope with his affliction. Soseki Natsume’s novel I Am a Cat satirically depicts the strange tales and incidents told by vulgar gentlemen from the perspective of a cat that wanders in and becomes a pet.
Book in 2023
The Phrenal Colony
Collections of nineteen short stories;
Man Trap, Ixtabibl, Under Pants, Wasp Under Glass, Brain Dead, Bobby Fever Does Group, Thanks Giving 2003 Feeding Baudrillard, A Reasonable Man, The Fitter Inner, Men Are Pigs, The Return of Elmer, Pops The Caveman, The Human Dynamo, The Jungle, The Troll, The Magic Christian, Fu Chan, Party Boy
written by Kevin Bartelme
ISBN : 978-4-9912864-1-4
19.95 USD
Available at
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The Energetic Man
エネルギッシュ・マン
One day, Kenzo, a retired man, saw an advertisement on television for an electrically-illuminated rejuvenation belt and ordered one. In Kenzo's case, the belt had a miraculous effect, earning him the nickname "Mexican Jumping Bean." He eventually jumped over the wall on the border between the United States and Mexico, and declared, "Let's stop building walls between people." Perhaps we are living in an age where we need a Superman-like figure.
A short story written by Kevin Bartelme
with Japanese translation by Shin Ono
年金生活者の健三は、ある日テレビで電気で光る若返りベルトの広告を見て、それを注文した。健三の場合そのベルトは驚異的な効果をもたらし、メキシカン・ジャンピング・ビーンの異名をもつことになった。ついには、アメリカとメキシコの国境の壁を飛び越え、「人と人との間に壁を作るのをやめよう、、」と宣言する。今、スーパーマンのような存在が必要な時代なのかもしれない。
ケビン バテルミ 著（英語）＋小野 紳 訳（日本語）
ISBN : 978-4-9912864-2-1
3usd + shipping / 300円（税込330円）送料180円
ご購入/ Available at muyilpress@gmail.com
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Wasp Under Glass
グラスの中のスズメバチ
At a cafe in a valley with a nice view, a hornet buzzing around, attracted by the smell of beer, is trapped in a glass. Bartelme sees the bee as the prisoner of Alghrave. "The Extermination of the Man-Eating Ogres" from "The Collection of Weird Stories (Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios)" compiled by Borges and others is a short story in which "the fate of the man-eating ogres in the world is held in the hands of two wasps trapped at the top of a glass pillar submerged in a pond, and if these two are released, all the immortal ogres will be wiped out." The insects in the glass may stimulate the novelist's curiosity.
A short story written by Kevin Bartelme
with Japanese translation by Masanori Tachikawa
眺めの良い渓谷のカフェで、ビールの香りにつられてブンブンと寄ってきたたスズメバチはグラスを被せられ閉じ込められた。バテルミは、それにアルグレイブの囚人を想起した。ボルヘスらが編んだ「怪奇譚集」の中の「人食い鬼たちの撲滅」は「世界の人食い鬼の運命は池の中に沈められたガラスの柱のてっぺんに閉じ込められた２匹の蜂が握り、この２匹を解き放つと不死の鬼たちは全滅する」という短編。グラスの中の虫は作家の好奇心を刺激するのかもしれない。
ケビン バテルミ 著（英語）＋立川正憲 訳（日本語）
ISBN : 978-4-9912864-3-8
3usd + shipping / 300円（税込330円）送料180円
ご購入/ Available at muyilpress@gmail.com
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The Caveman
洞窟男
This man is a talented advertising agent who drives a Mercedes. However, he doesn't live in a luxury high-rise apartment, but in a cave in Chichibu near Tokyo. Will his girlfriend accept this lifestyle? Can he become a cave woman? What is human happiness? We invite readers to fantasize about living in a cave for themselves.
A short story written by Kevin Bartelme
with Japanese translation by Shin Ono
広告代理店で敏腕を振るい、メルセデスに乗るこの男。 ところが、その住まいは高級タワマンではなく、秩父の洞窟。その生活スタイルを恋人は受け入れるだろうか？ 洞窟女になれるか？ 人の幸せとは一体何だろうか？ 読者の皆さんもご自身の洞窟生活を空想してみては如何だろうか。ケビン バテルミ 著（英語）＋小野 紳 訳（日本語）
価格 300円（税込330円）
＊「フーちゃん」とセット価格600円（税込660円）
送料180円
ご購入/ Available at muyilpress@gmail.com
Book in 2022
Twofer
It's a book of two stories "The show" and "The Reluctant Doctor".
The show consists of 12 chapters and an epilogue
The Reluctant Doctor consists of 28 chapters
written by Kevin Bartelme
ISBN : 978-0-9857835-8-7
19.95 USD
Available at
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Fu Chan
フーちゃん
The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the author from returning to the United States and during this time restrictions on meeting people, the author met Fu Chan, who lives in a miso storehouse near Tokyo. Foo-chan is a 5-year-old but well-built tortoise who loves apples and bananas. Fu Chan occasionally decides to escape. The story of Fu Chan, who will surely outlive the author, was inspired by a nightmare.
A short story written by Kevin Bartelme
with Japanese translation by Shin Ono
コロナ禍でアメリカへの帰国が阻まれる中、そして人に会うのを制限される中、著者は東京郊外の味噌蔵に棲むフーちゃんに出会った。フーちゃんは５歳だがかなり体格が良いトータス（リクガメ）で、りんごとバナナが大好き。そして時折脱走を図る。著者より確実に長生きするフーちゃんの物語は、悪夢に触発されて書かれた。
ケビン バテルミ著（英語）＋小野 紳訳（日本語）
ISBN : 978-4-9912864-0-7 CO197
4usd +shipping / 価格 450円（税込495円）
「洞窟男」とセット価格600円（税込660円）
送料180円
ご購入 / Available at muyilpress@gmail.com
Book in 2021&2019
Dreaming of Hokuasi
collection of short stories about
contemporary Japan
by
Kevin Bartelme
Katsushika Hokusai, best known for his wood block prints, especially those of Mount Fuji, liked to walk around all over the place and make drawings of the people he saw along the way. Not portraits, mind you, but people going about their everyday lives.
Kevin Bartelme, best known for his comic novels and short stories, likes to walk around himself, and, somewhat like Hokusai, write about the people he encounters in his travels around Japan. Imaginary people, that is. He doesn’t want anyone to confuse themselves with the fictional characters in the book as some people tend to do.
So, read and enjoy!
僕の中のバカジン
The Fool Inside of Me
Japanese translation of Dreaming of Hokusai
日本を舞台にした短編集
ケビン・バテルミが書くフィクションはニューヨークを舞台にしたものが多いが、2003年に初来日して以来、行脚して綴った短編集「Dreaming Hokusai」（2019年出版）は日本各地を舞台とする。北斎が人物をリアルにコミカルに描いたように、バテルミは昨今の日本を架空の登場人物に投影する。本書はその翻訳本であり、「僕の中のバカジン」は短編集の中の一編であり、他「世界の始まり」「記憶喪失」「印された男」「ウェディング」「幽霊」「関東美術財団」「夜行バス」「「映画クラブ同窓会」ビッグデート」「無限」を合わせた十一編を収録する。ユーモラスでコミカル、ヒューマニズムに根ざした短編小説集 翻訳：西脇エミ
ISBN: 978-0-9857835-7-0
9.50usd + shipping / 910円＋税
Available at muyilpress@gmail.com
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Book in 2020
BIG ME
by
BOBBY FEVER
In this epic manifesto, nightclub impresario and game show host Bobby Fever takes us on a step-by-step tour of his brilliant insights and reflections on the human condition in today’s often confusing world. Some people use the Bible or the Talmud or the Koran as their touchstone in life and that’s all well and good for the feeble minded among us, but, as a more complicated, complex individual, I need only to open Bobby’s book to any random page for the comfort and inspiration I need to get me through what otherwise might be a long and dreary day. His wit and wise observations always lift me out of the petty concerns of the madding throng to a place where the sky is crystal clear and the visibility endless! For these bon mots and so much more, I am forever in Bobby’s debt! And I will pay my bar tab next week, Bobby! I will!
Crocker Shipp, DD
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Book in 2019
A Chart Too Far
by
Kevin Bartelme
Harry Thiess’ happy appointment as director of a prestigious art museum is about to take him down a memory hole that harks back to the Massachusetts Bay Puritans whose imprint on American culture reverberates to this day. Moreover, his hiring of archivist Stewart Stockton will lead to all sorts of unforeseen consequences that threaten the very fabric of the haut monde art world where things are rarely what they seem. In a wild series of misunderstandings, sexual imbroglios, and even fiery explosions, Harry is forced to navigate the ever-shifting undercurrents of a run amok society where vanity and the lust for ultimate power are the only constants. What’s a puzzled curator to do when confronted by previously invisible forces that threaten to overwhelm and lay waste to everything he’s ever worked for? Does Harry have what it takes to weather the storm? It’s definitely a long shot but maybe, just maybe, he’ll figure it out.
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Book in 2012
REICH
by
Kevin Bartelme
The latest Great American in Muyil Press’ ongoing Great American series is Wilhelm Reich, a scientist whose many disparate enemies included Adolph Hitler, Sigmund Freud, the governments of Nazi Germany, Norway, and Great Britain, Albert Einstein, J. Edgar Hoover, and his estranged wife Ilsa (not Hoover’s, but that’s another story) among others. In fact, it was she who buttressed his belief in flying saucers by throwing so many at him for his numerous extra-marital affairs. Now, for the first time in print, the true story of Reich comes to light in a brisk, yet heart-rending chronicle of betrayal and redemption.
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The Instituto
by
Kevin Bartelme
If you think school is out you're about to go back for some Advanced Studies at the Instituto.
Set in Mexico City, Bartelme takes us for a wild ride through everything from Aztec history to the imagined glories and sordid secrets of academia.
I know that sound almost intolerably boring but Bartelme manages to bring it all to life in a tour de force comedy of bad manners.
ISBN: 978-0-615-59735-5
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