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About Pup's Books

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Pup's Books is a Manhattan-based publishing collective, founded to

promote the writing projects of life-partners Mr. Jan Ewing, aka Boss, and

Mr. William J. Cataldi, aka pup.

(Thanksgiving Day, 2022) It has been a rough year for us at Pup's Books, but we have kept up theater reviewing and literary contributions. We expect to publish our annual yearbook of New York theater in February 2023. pup has several new projects in the works.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and readers.

(Summer 2022) pup has published a number of new pieces (and is working on more) to the pup's writing blog. He's up to three pages of blog entries. Check the Ivan VI page for updates on our efforts to mount a full production. Thanks.

Check out our Pride Literature page for relevant pieces.

(March 15, 2022) Today we published Ewing Reviewing 2021 in a full-color edition, replete with 45 reviews of plays staged in 2021, and also six essays by movers and shakers within the independent theater community. This is the fourth book in our series on New York off- and off-off-Broadway theater. The series is an important document of theater that might otherwise be lost to history. Be sure to check out the pages for previous years' editions: Ewing Reviewing 2020 with a beautiful photo spread by Dan Lane Williams worth the price of the book; and Ewing Reviewing 2018 and 2019.

(November 26, 2021) For thirty years, I have felt that as long as Stephen Sondheim was alive,

everything would be okay. We are in despair over his death at age 91 today.

He was one of a small handful of the greatest artists, the greatest men, whom humanity has produced.

There are no words to express our immense suffering at this loss.

(October 2021) This month we celebrate the twenty-seventh year of our extremely useful and productive partnership. We could not be the writers we are individually, if we hadn't had such intense time spent with one another. Like Dante and Beatricia, or Abelard and Heloise, or Paolo and Francesca, we will truly be known as Boss and pup, inseparable, for hundreds of years after our demise.

For our theater review work, go to Ewing Reviewing.

Our theater review work is done in conjunction with Hi! Drama,

Eva Heinemann's legendary off- and off-off-Broadway salon.

You can check out Hi! Drama's biweekly video show at this link.

Want to find out more about us or Pup's Books?

Explore our website for background information, then read what strikes your fancy.

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"Art is like playing with fire. Neither one of us knows how to manipulate the fire without getting burnt.

I come away from writing projects an absolute mess, covered in wounds and scars."

— pup

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Despite a ray of hope with the success of the Biden transition, the world remains a deeply self-divided, angry place. We look back fondly on an innocent time that never really existed, when Americans pretended at least, that we were all sisters and brothers. We take refuge in art and the humanity art encourages.

Mr. Jan Ewing, aka Boss

Mr. Ewing, a classically trained musician, has directed theater across the country, and has written dozens of books. His pornography, written under the pseudonym Jack Evans, is in the collection of Cornell University. He is presently working as a New York theater critic for Hi! Drama, and is seeking to produce his magnificent new play, Ivan VI. For inquires, write to his email address below. He is working on the balance of The Red Headed Kid, an autobiographical novel, Parts 1 & 2 of which are now available on Amazon. Part 3 is in the works.

Email: janewing@pupsbooks.com.

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Mr. William J. Cataldi, aka pup

Mr. Cataldi attended Wesleyan University, SUNYAB, and CCNY, but never completed his degree. He studied Humanities and Math. He avidly practices his Christian Taoist religion. He continues to write theater reviews for Hi! Drama. Currently, he contributes to pup's writing, his blog for new pieces. His first book, written in 2015, Sex and God and Other Essays, explores his religion, sexuality, and an assortment of philosophical topics. He has written a play, Love v. Marriage, which he currently promotes. He finds comfort in his blue-collar existence.

Email: william@pupsbooks.com

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