Slow Lie Detector (Equator Books)   We're celebrating the release of a new novel from Equator Books, the publishing house that grew out of the retail store in Venice Beach. Slow Lie Detector, a story of love and itinerant filmmaking in the heart of Death Valley, is a glimpse into the fevered career of auteur Maximilian Echs and his “nurse” and heroine as they traverse a harrowing psychic territory, searching an ever-shifting perceptual landscape for something like a perfect ending. “Multi-layered, dream-like prose.” --Baltimore Morning Sun “. . . written in the delicious Beat-poetic rhythms that are the hallmark of Les Plesko’s spare style.” --Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander