Signs.

Coconut Grove, Florida:: Extra Virgin Press,, 2019.. Edition of 40. 9.5 in x 6.25 in x .5"; 25 pages. Printed on French Paper's Speckletone True White. Pearl Gray Fabriano Murillo covers with an interior orange plastic cover sheath for the book block. Bound with a kettle stitch and multi-quire bindings using waxed linen thread. Printed with a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof Press using Compressed Gothic Wood Type, polymer plates, and linoleum plates. Signed by Dufresne on the title page. Signed by Virgin on the colophon. Numbered. Twelve flash fiction items by Florida writer John Dufresne with illustrations by Florida artist Tom Virgin. Each vignette pulls the reader into an instance of someone's life, hinting at a fuller story, an ongoing story, sometimes funny, sometimes bewildering, sometimes achingly sad.  Interview The Jitney: "Mr. Dufresne compares the collaborative project to theater. 'As I think of it, the writer/artist partnership is not unlike theater, another collaborative art form. There, I try to engage the imagination of the actors and directors and let them bring the script and the characters to life. Here, with 'Signs,' my job was to engage Tom's lush imagination, and he did the rest.'