It's about the zany adventures of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as they get together and invent Cubism.

It's about war, the futility of art, loneliness and frustration.

It's about what a fucking bitch Gertrude Stein was.

"...Ballard's story is beautifully written." The Believer

Justus Ballard is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Portland, Oregon. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and in 2004 he received the Friends of Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship from Oregon's Literary Arts for a novel in progress. He is the fiction editor of Gertrude. He is currently working on a rock opera about the legislative branch of the US government.