J. Jupes writes pulp and dystopian novels and likes having a cover image in front of him before even thinking about the first word. He assembles books from notes written on the back of Mars Bar wrappers. Raised by a severe English playwright, Jupes can't stomach convention. His father made outlines. He doesn't. Jupes likes a sentence that smokes unfiltered cigarettes and flicks the butts into filthy puddles just to hear them hiss. "I type real fast with two fingers," he says, "like a two beaked woodpecker. I use a typewriter because I like pounding the keys and shoving the carriage over at the end of a line then ripping out the page and slapping it down on the Done Pile. I never went to writing school but I've been to the corner of Life and"