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Dark Stars Rising, featuring conversations between Shade Rupe (Funeral Party) and 27 of the leading lights of the transgressive arts (including Peter Sotos, Teller, Chas Ballun, Gaspar Noe, William Lustig and Floria Sigismondi, to name a few), is more than a mere book. Clocking in at 558 teeming pages, featuring over 500 jaw dropping images, many rare or unseen, and sporting a design of mind bending intricacy, each chapter boasting its very own lavish layout, Dark Stars Rising is a cross between a carnival, a massacre, and everyone’s ideal dinner party… At Headpress The Players 1. Richard Kern 2. Alejandro Jodorowksy 3. Buddy Giovinazzo 4. Udo Kier 5. Jim VanBebber 6. Dennis Paoli 7. Tura Satana 8. Teller 9. Brother Theodore 10. Peter Sotos 11. Johannes Schonherr 12. Chas. Balun 13. Divine 14. Floria Sigismondi 15. Hermann Nitsch 16. Genesis P-Orridge 17. William Lustig 18. Dennis Cooper 19. Gaspar Noe [...]...

As part of our ongoing effort to expose our readers to all the latest and greatest genre-related projects in the literary realm, today we present to you Shade Rupe's Dark Stars Rising, a collection of 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years with unique and free-thinking artists from America to Austria and beyond.

From the Press Release:

Working in different media, countries, constraints, and freedoms, the vortex here is created by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Everyone in this collection has produced artifacts that affect the heart, mind, soul, and future.

The smaller half of Penn & Teller ends the silence for a lengthy discussion of magic and falsehoods; Divine opens the closet for his transition to playing male roles; Crispin Glover discusses his love for the films of Fassbinder and other greats; Faster Pussycat! Kill,...