"Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound of language that they collected, dissected, and constructed verbal wonders of the most extraordinary kind ... A love letter to all those who love words, language, writing, writers, and stories, Alphamaniacs is [an] ... illustrated collection of mini-biographies about the most daring and peculiar of writers and their audacious, courageous, temerarious way...