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Abram Shalom Himelstein is the co-founder of New Mouth from the Dirty South and author of Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing. Himelstein is also co-founder of the Neighborhood Story Project, a community documentary program in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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From the author of Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing ...

T-shirt cover
What the Hell Am I Doing Here?
The 100 T-Shirt Project
text and photos by Abram Shalom Himelstein
T-shirts by the People Wearing Them
$10.00 + postage (U.S.)
isbn: 1891053981
128 pages

This special first edition is signed and numbered by the author.


Books are shipped via the U.S. Postal Service. Expect 2 to 3 weeks for delivery.
The 100 T-Shirt Project is about people writing their secret thoughts on t-shirts with a fabric marker, and taking photographs of them wearing the shirts. The result is a photographic album of 100 people wearing 100 t-shirts proclaiming what they think all day but rarely say out loud.


Buy What the Hell Am I Doing Here? with
Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing

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Purchased separately: $20.00
Purchased together: $14.95


"What the Hell Am I Doing Here? is something that belongs on toilet tanks everywhere."
--Sean Carswell, Razorcake Magazine

"The result is a wonderful photographic poem...Excellent."
--Doug MacCash, Times-Picayune

To read an interview with Abram on Bookslut, click here.


100 T-Shirts

...In a fair world my T-shirt would have read SHE CHEATED ON ME so that everyone would know that I was, at best, half-present.

Before I had sex, it was this vague idea to me. Sex. But in the days after I lost my virginity, I walked around thinking -- that guy there, that girl there, my teacher, the principal, everyone is doing it. And I wondered about how they did it, and with whom and how often.

And it was the same after my train wreck while teaching school. I thought about how many people have half a brain working on their tragedies, triumphs and neuroses. And I wanted to tell everyone mine and hear everyone else's.

So that was the idea. I wanted to go to all my usual places, telling the people there the refrain that held half my brain lately, asking what they were actually thinking about. A hundred T-shirts.

For a year I used this project as a way to get my friends to talk about their lives, asking them what their T-shirt would say. And then, when I needed something for my magazine -- I actually did it.

I went to my regular spots, a backpack full of T-shirts and fabric markers and a camera. I told the story of my ex cheating on me, then gave people shirts and took their picture....

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Listen to Abram Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser discuss their book Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing on NPR's Morning Edition

Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of the Pat Robertson Coloring Book, Living Lost, Letters From New Orleans, Best of Temp Slave, Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass, Little Tenement on the Volga, A Terrible Thunder, Common Folk, the George W. Bush Coloring Book and What the Hell Am I Doing Here?

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