Containing many stories previously published in The Violent Lavender Beast, The Big Dave and Little Wife Convention (New Orphic $24) is Ernest Hekkanen's 33rd book. "When one operates as far outside the accepted circle of literature as I do,"; says Hekkanen, "one's antics are very rarely observed and then only by accident-ultimately to be dismissed as the pitiful ravings of a lunatic."; 1-894842-04-9