FRENCH FRIES

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Co-written with Dennis Bernstein, 1984, visual studies workshop & ear/say, 8”x11”x104 pages, printed offset lithography in 3 colors on acid-free mohawk superfine, hardcover, printed ketchup-resistant faux-leather menu material over boards, miraculous press-press work by Phil Zimmermann. Winner AIGA book award, Special Recognition Award, from Society of Typographic Arts and Type Director’s Club award. In George Pompidue Museum and many other collections. Reprinted and written about in dozens of books on design, typography, artists books and experimental literature.

This book/play is a quick-service circus of culinary discourse, dream, memory, loss, and twisted aspiration; a day in the life of the original DREAM QUEEN restaurant (a restaurant that grew to become the third largest burger chain in the western hemisphere). Before the book/play begins, Gertie Greenbaum is found dead in a pool of blood and ketchup. Four customers and three employees (each set in his or her own typographic voice and color) give testimony to how Gerite died, as they struggle with their own destinies against a backdrop of greasy comfort. The text is illuminated with icons and images that evoke the DREAM QUEEN tableau, and the internal projections of the characters. By the end of the book/play, a variety of books that live within each of the characters are revealed.

out of print
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slightly damaged or irregular copies @ $350
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“The tastiest book this season and for seasons to come is Warren Lehrer’s latest tour de force. (FRENCH FRIES) is a remarkable accomplishment. Each page becomes theater and you are the voyeur...”
Judith Hoffberg, High Performance
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