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The Garage project

No one in their right mind would start a fanzine with the dream of it eventually finding a publisher in the United States. That sort of thing doesn’t happen in real life.

Yet somehow it happened to me.

Nearly 40 years after I produced my zine, , in my Dunedin bedroom, I am boarding a flight from Auckland to Chicago. I’m going to meet Todd. That’s Todd Novak of HoZac books in Chicago,

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