Looking for a personalized copy of Exit Pursued by a Bear?

"Exit Pursued by a Bear is original and delightful, a remarkable debut."

- Daisy Fried, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again

"A Dairy Queen converted into a funeral parlor, a famous stage direction from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the sands of Afghanistan ... everything is grist for Ginny Beards' clever mill. Full of humor, learning, and dark insight, she wears her erudition lightly, as all the best poets do."

- Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down

Exit Pursued by a Bear available directly from Oermead Press. 

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Limited Edition Hardcover Edition. Your copy will be signed and personalized by Virginia Beards. Limited to 100. 

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Hardcover $22.00 USD Paperback $18.00 USD

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In the poems of Virginia Beards, insomnia is a 3-ring circus, a Dairy Queen mutates into a funeral parlor, an 18th century graffito enlivens a bedpost in a Venetian palazzo, a swim in the Nile both lulls and terrifies. What she sees both directly and via a sideways glance, the inanities of the overheard as well as of the zeitgeist, and the stresses of domestic relationships are some of her themes in 

Exit Pursued by a Bear. Whatever the focus, she is committed to the pleasures of language and to multum in parvo, much in a small space.

Virginia Beards draws from an archive of urban (New York, Philadelphia), suburban (Seattle), rural (Lancaster county, PA), and international experience (Denmark, France, North Africa) plus a considerable literary backlog acquired as a member of the Penn State English Department for twenty-three years. She has published criticism in The Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth Century Views of Women Writers, and in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction. Her poetry has appeared in Writing on the Edge (Univ. of California, Davis) and her short stories in Chester County Fiction. She holds a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College.

Looking for a personalized copy of Shoplandia?

"A raucous novel... He writes with wit and a terrific eye for snappy revealing dialogue. Breslin is not mean-spirited; rather he is insightful in his remembrances of things past. This home shopping experience is powerful." - Carole Mallory, Huffington Post Books   

"Despite a smiley-face ending, this novel is worth its weight in all the gold, silver, and crystal jewelry now on clearance prices until midnight. Give me 10,000 copies. I'd gladly give it a go selling them on QVC myself." - Holly Love, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Breslin's choice to set the stories within the television shopping network corporation is one of the most refreshing and strategic narrative moves I have experienced in a long time." - Jillian Benedict, Turk's Head Review

"Compelling and poetic, Shoplandia's stories have all the insight and complexity of the best novels. Breslin gives us a thoughtful meditation on consumerism and the American Dream." - Terry Heyman, Greetings From Insanity 

"With a tone and style reminiscent of George Saunders and situations that would feel right at home in a Don DeLillo novel, the stories collected in Jim Breslin's Shoplandia offer an engaging and informed behind-the-scenes look at the home shopping industry." - Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews

"Shoplandia reveals the absurd world of home shopping networks with rollicking humor and gusto." - James Esch, Turk’s Head Review

 “Compelling and poetic, Shoplandia’s stories have all the insight and complexity of the best novels. Breslin gives us a thoughtful meditation on consumerism and the American Dream.” - Terry Heyman, Greetings From Insanity

Shoplandia is available directly from Oermead Press for $18 which includes shipping and handling. USA only. If you'd like your copy personalized, please include the names in the text field.

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Shoplandia $18.00 USD Elephant $14.00 USD Both Books $30.00 USD

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Jake Meecham has been dropped down a rabbit hole. As a new production assistant at Shoplandia, he quickly realizes America’s third largest home shopping channel is much more than smiling show hosts, quantity counters and sparkling jewelry. Everyone visiting the live studio—reality TV stars, beloved country musicians, drunk baseball icons and A-Team actors—is striving to cash in on their own version of the American Dream. Meanwhile, a motivational guru inspires manager Warren to plot out a life-changing career strategy and fledgling show host Renee searches deep to find her “sales gene.” Marketing VP Johnny tracks down a troubled long lost show host while back in the studio, producers Dottie and Dylan struggle to keep the live show from imploding. A humorous novel told through stories, Shoplandia peels back the curtain to reveal the familial bonds that often form in our working lives.