Stories by Yan Yan

This set of stories includes B.B.B.B., Edie, Easy Does It!, Love Melancholy and the Solar-Powered Parka, and October Painfest.

Moments of love and violence pervade Yan's stories of celebrity, interspecies copulation, and post-collegiate life. All told through Yan's unique voice. Photocopied on white paper with yellow cover and saddle stitched.

Selections:

"I got a sandwich. It was $12 with a soda. As I was driving and munching down on my hero I thought: hmm $12 is a lot of money for a sandwich. I mean it's delicious but $12 is a lot. However, I also realized, further down that train of thought, that working in the finance world, I make a shit load of money. So a $12 sandwich is reasonable in comparison. These small moments of realization always spring upon one unwittingly." - Easy Does It!

"Things are always nice when they are big. Ian thought about the nature of bigness. He remembered a theory he once had about love in the city. It went: there are so many people in the city that it is nearly impossible for anyone to achieve uniqueness and without uniqueness how can there really be love? Everyone is interchangeable. Just about every combination of attractive attributes occur in multiple human instances." - BBBB

Lengths vary / 5" x 6.5" / b&w / edition of 35

Yan Yan was born in Hangzhou, China. He lived in the Bay Area from the mid to late 1990's. He is currently traveling between NYC, California, and China.

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