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By Zach Plague
On Pre-sale Now! When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide lose their post-modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus, while she obsesses over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the art school set experiments with bad drugs, bad sex, and bad ideas. But none of these desperate young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his potent sex drug. This wild slew of characters get caught up in the gravitational pull of The Platypus' giant art ball, where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion. Zach Plague has written and designed a hybrid typo/graphic novel which skewers the art world, and those boring enough to fall into its traps.
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This Will Go Down on Your
Permanent Record
By Susannah Felts
On Sale now! At the beginning of a lonely summer, 16-year-old Vaughn Vance meets Sophie Birch, and the two forge an instant and volatile alliance at Nashville’s neglected Dragon Park. But when Vaughn takes up photography, she trains her lens on Sophie, and their bond dissolves as quickly as it came into focus. Felts keenly illuminates the pitfalls of coming of age as an artist, the slippery nature of identity, and the clash of class in the New South. This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record is a sparkling and probing debut novel from a rising literary star.
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Hiding Out
By Jonathan Messinger
Illustrated by Rob Funderburk
[A] striking debut...reading his succinct stories is as natural as breathing. But like the quick, fool-the-eye, knock-you-flat moves of kung fu (a recurrent theme), these tales of lonely, brooding, sweetly romantic guys pack covert and concentrated power.—Chicago Tribune Messinger’s stories are aching, not bleak, and the collection, wittily and expressively illustrated with Rob Funderburk’s line drawings, is fun, engaging, and a bit more than thought-provoking. A fresh, spot-on debut.—Mark Eleveld, Booklist On Sale Now! Nothing is as it seems: A jilted lover dons robot armor to win back the heart of an ex-girlfriend; an angel loots the home of a single father; a teenager finds the key to everlasting life in a video game. In this much-anticipated debut, one of Chicago's most exciting young writers has crafted playful and empathic tales of misguided lonely hearts. Sparkling with humor and showcasing an array of styles, Hiding Out features characters dodging consequences while trying desperately to connect.
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Written by Megan
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This here is the Midwest, folks, which means we are all about fairs in the summertime. And this weekend, from 10-6 both days, we’re going to pay our respects to that prize-winning pig of Chicago literary events, the Printers Row Book Fair. The featherproof booth will be stationed on Polk Street at table 327, right between Bobo the Strongman and Daryl the One-Eyed Cat.
Come check out our new blue-ribbon mini-books, Agee by the Bedpost by Caroline Picard and By the Rivers, We Remember by James Lower. And we’ll have a sneak preview of our fall harvest, Zach Plague’s novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring. (See the interview in which Zach Plague reveals his true identity, here).
We've also got a fresh batch of hand-printed featherproof T-shirts. They'll be at the booth.
But that’s not all. The atmosfair continues at the The Sound party, put on by those swell folks at Superkonductor, on Saturday night, where you’ll find more of our minis hiding amongst a ton of awesome prints and artwork. And if you feel like hitching a ride on our traveling show, come to Heart of Gold on Sunday, June 15 for MULE Magazine's Issue 5 Release Party. The latest mag features fp authors Susannah Felts, Elizabeth Crane, Ryan Markel, Scott Stealey, and Zach Plague.
So come out and say hello to us, face-to-face. Don’t worry, we’re sweeter than funnel cake.
Sooie,
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p.s. We had a great time at the Pilcrow Lit Fest last weekend. It was a hoot and a holler:
More photos can be found here. Thanks Amy Guth!
p.p.s. Also, check out the latest project from the Third Coast Audio Festival.They are teaming with the Prelinger Library in San Francisco for the 2008 "audio challenge," called "Radio Ephemera," which invites the public to produce short audio stories inspired by some of the delightfully weird old books from the Prelinger collection, which are gorgeously digitized here for easy browsing and inspiration. There is a pretty hilarious 1948 facts-of-life tome called The Stork Didn't Bring You! |
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You’ve probably heard the news reports that a 5.2 earthquake rippled through Chicago at about 4:30 this morning. Bosh. Those weren’t tectonic tremors you slept through, they were the aftershocks of our new cosmically awesome mini-books’ crash landing. The first, “Keftir the Blind” by Nathaniel Rich, was excerpted from his excellent new novel, The Mayor's Tounge, now out on Riverhead. Riding co-pilot on the mini-meteor is “My Brother” by Lindsay Hunter, an amazing short-short story that’s better than any of those long-long ones.
And speaking of the universe, a few light years away down in Alabama, Sons of the Rapture author Todd Dills and This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record’s Susannah Felts will both be at the Montevallo Literary Festival, reading as part of the Hot New Birmingham Writing event on Saturday, April 19 at 2pm.
For those of you in our HQ, you can see Nat Rich read from The Mayor's Tounge on Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30pm. He (and we) will be at the Lincoln Park Borders, 2817 N Clark St, affectionately known as The Borders Across from Landmark.
And if that’s not enough, we’re invading the art world next weekend. Come check out our booth at the NEXT Art Fair in the Merchandise Mart, Friday April 25 through Monday April 28. We’ll be showcasing our new poster series, which contains the entire text of our next book, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, which isn’t even out until August. It’s like time travel, but real this time.
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Mon, Jul 7th, 2008, @8:00pm - 900 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
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Tue, Jul 8th, 2008, @7:30pm - Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
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Eugene Small Publishing Festival
Thu, Jul 10th, 2008, @7:00pm - The Monroe Street Cafe, 1123 Monroe St, Eugene, OR
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