# The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues - Hardcover

by **Ann VanderMeer** (Author), **Jeff VanderMeer** (Author)

**As featured on _Boing Boing_ and _Jewcy_**

Just in time for Passover, this bite-sized bestiary is the definitive?--nay, the _only_\--?A to Z guide to the kosherness of imaginary animals. The _Kosher Guide_ is a whimsically illustrated, wild, undomesticated romp that features E.T., hobbits, Mongolian Death Worms, and even the elusive chupacabra!

Once and for all, our experts will definitively describe burning questions passed down through the ages, such as: Is a vegetable-lamb a vegetable or a lamb? Does licking the Pope make you _trayf_? What exactly is a pollo maligno? Is Sasquatch _kashrut_ and does it taste stringy?

The _Kosher Guide_ resolves (mostly) an ongoing, contentious debate (_oy vey_) between Evil Monkey--the alter-ego of bestselling fantasist Jeff VanderMeer (_Annihilation_)--and acclaimed editor (and co-conspirator) Ann VanderMeer (_Steampunk_), the creative team that produced _The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases_.

Now you can broaden your imaginary culinary experiences guilt-free--_mazel tov_!

### Author Biography

Ann VanderMeer is the Hugo Award?-winning editor of _Weird Fiction Review_. She was the fiction editor at _Weird Tales_ and the publisher of Buzzcity Press, work for which received the British Fantasy, International Horror Guild, and Rhysling awards. An expert on Victoriana, she is the co-editor of the bestselling World Fantasy Award?nominated Steampunk series. Her other anthologies include the Best American Fantasy and Leviathan series, _The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases_, _The New Weird_, and _Last Drink, Bird Head_.

Jeff VanderMeer is the best-selling author of _City of Saints and Madmen_, the noir thriller _Finch_, and the quintessential guide to writers, _Booklife_. His award-winning novels have made the year's best lists at _Publishers Weekly_, the _San Francisco Chronicle_, and the _Wall Street Journal_. His nonfiction and reviews have appeared in _Washington Post Book World_, the _Huffington Post_, and the _New York Times Book Review_.

**Number of Pages:** 96

**Dimensions:** 0.52 x 7.34 x 5.84 IN

**Publication Date:** April 30, 2010

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