DREAMS OF THE RETURN~ Alan Bern

🖼️INSTANT NOODLES: GRAVY: COVER 12/2025 🖼️
THE PUMPKIN GRAVY BOWL~Koudelka
DINNER WITH GRANDMA~Patra
🎙 THE SUN SHINES BLINDLY ~ Veres 🎙
THE GROOVIEST GRAVY IN THE WORLD ~ Chou
MELT BAR AND GRILLED ~ Jackson
🖼️TRACING BODIES~ Watts🖼️
BROWNOUT ~ Parenteau
🎙 THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS ~ Arbushites 🎙
THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE PIE ~ Golladay
LOVE ME SOME GRAVY ~ Roe
🖼️ GRAVY DRAGONS ~ Fleming 🖼️
REMEMBER WE DON’T WATCH FOOTBALL ~ Fabian
SAILING ON GRAVY BOAT SEAS ~ Petska
PASS THE GRAVY, MATE  ~ Das Gupta
🖼️HOWLING INTO THE VOID ~ Fulcher🖼️
🎙 PASS ME THE GRAVY ~ Maril 🎙
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING ~ Cox
GRAVY BOAT APOCALYPSE ~ Lee
NANA’S GRAVY ~ Tures
THE GREAT GRAVY DEBACLE ~ Diamond
BONUS GRAVY ~ Lee
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE ~Lemprière
🎙 THAT BROWN GRAVY ~ Weigel 🎙
ART YOU HAPPY~ Harvey
“SECRET INGREDIENT”~ Hopson
EVERYTHING’S COMING UP GRAVY ~ Warwick
MISBEHAVING GRAVY ~ Bailey
GRAVY ~ Knoll
IN MEMORY OF GRAVY ~ Pertessis
SIBLING GRAVY ~ BROWN
🎙 CRACKED PIE CRUST~ DeBeer 🎙
RECIPE FOR WRITING ~ Scherfling
🖼️JONAH’S MAP OF THE WORLD~ Doyle🖼️
UNDER THE COUCH ~ Donadon
GRAVY BOAT MERMAIDS ~ Doyle
FISH ~ Silcock
OUR OWN FREDO ~ Frey
🖼️ WHO PUT THIS GRAVY ~ Bern 🖼️
⋆｡°✩ TikTok ~ YouDon’tStop ⋆｡°✩
🖼️DREAMS OF THE RETURN ~ Bern🖼️
THE CULT OF THE ROYAL TURKEY TODD (OR THE TIME I FOUND ENLIGHTENMENT IN A RANSOM NOTE FOUND IN SOME SOGGY MASHED POTATOES AND I HAD NO GRAVY) ~ Walker
🎙 🖼️ IT ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE ~ Fitzgerald 🖼️ 🎙
OUR CHRISTMAS SURPRISE ~ Bennett
GRAVY GLADIATORS ~ Lee
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Old Scratch Press presents
Dreams of the Return
a celebration of Italy in poems, pictures, and memoir by Alan Bern.

Photo of Mt. Etna in Sicily and the town below it
Alan Bern’s book cover. Photo by Alan Bern

On sale now… perfect gift for the Italy-lover in your life~