Dream Whip

(Paperback, 14th Fourteenth Edition, None ed.)

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Bill Brown'sDream Whipzine is a raw little chunk of America full of darkened crop-fields and desert moonlight and sad, empty diners. Now in its 14th issue,Dream Whipis a zine with some history behind it. "I was skateboarding one night, back in early '90s," Bill explains over email. "It was late, and it was cold. I hit a rock and, suddenly, I was lying on my back and the sky was full of shooting stars. I was dizzy for a year. I started doing a zine to take my mind off my broken head. I finally got better, more or less, but the zine kept going." The long-runningDream Whipis an informed, articulate, patient piece of existential storytelling. In a tone that's half Ira Glass, half Cometbus, Bill's 344-page pocket-size 14th issue gives us stories of biblical theme parks and border-crossers, of Dutch punks and haunted houses. His is a wide-spanning, optimistic, Technicolored America, more Woody Allen than Kerouac, but always on the road. As says Bill, "Dream Whipis a bad country song full of open roads and achy hearts and ratty motel rooms where I take stock of how many miles I've gone and how many I've still got to go."

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"So good!" --"Print Fetish"
Zinester-turned-novelist Bill Brown's specialty is capturing ephemeral cultural movements in the most unlikely places... Brown's writinghalf travel diary, half mysteryitself frequently stumbles into subtly beautiful territory.Now Magazine
"Zinester-turned-novelist Bill Brown's specialty is capturing ephemeral cultural movements in the most unlikely places... Brown's writing -- half travel diary, half mystery -- itself frequently stumbles into subtly beautiful territory." -- Now Magazine

Author Bio

Bill Brown is a filmmaker, photographer, and author who has produced the filmsBuffalo Common, Confederation Park, Hub City, Mountain State,The Other Side, and Roswell. He is the author of all 14 issues of the zine,Dream Whip, and the book Saugus to the Sea. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.