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AM/PM
By Amelia Gray
Available now! If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, Gray's flash-fiction collection, impish humor is on full display. Tour through the lives of 23 characters across 120 stories full of lizard tails, Schrödinger boxes and volcano love. Follow June, who wakes up one morning covered in seeds; Leonard, who falls in love with a chaise lounge; and Andrew, who talks to his house in times of crisis. An intermittent love story as seen through a darkly comic lens, Gray mixes poetry and prose, humor and hubris to create a truly original piece of fiction.
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Grow:
An Environmentally Friendly Book
By Alyson Beaton and K. J. Bradley
Coming March 2009! Grow plants the seed of environmental responsibility in young children through a fun and interactive daily routine, with playful graphics and typography. This simple routine can benefit the environment, community, health, and a child’s awareness of self in the larger world. KJ Bradley and Alyson Beaton have created the first completely 'squeaky green' book to take a child through a typical day, implementing a routine that is environmentally and socially sound. The sharply designed book helps parents teach children very early on how easy it is to take steps for a cleaner earth. Check out growbook.org!
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By Zach Plague
Out 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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Check out all these 'boring' versions: the book, the audio cd, the posters, the ebook or the online version!
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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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Scorch Atlas
By Blake Butler
Coming 9-9-09! A novel of 14 interlocking stories set in ruined American locales where birds speak gibberish, the sky rains gravel, and millions starve, disappear or grow coats of mold. In 'The Disappeared,' a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. In 'The Ruined Child,' a boy swells to fill his parents' ransacked attic. Rendered in a variety of narrative forms, from a psychedelic fable to a skewed insurance claim questionnaire, Blake Butler's full-length fiction debut paints a gorgeously grotesque version of America, bringing to mind both Kelly Link and William Gass, yet turned with Butler's own eye for the apocalyptic and bizarre.
Blake Butler is the author of EVER, a novella from Calamari Press. His work has appeared in Fence, Willow Springs, The Believer, Ninth Letter, and many others. He is the editor of Lamination Colony and No Colony, two experimental journals of new prose. He lives in Atlanta and blogs here.
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Hey featherproof friend,
We're literally sweating with excitement over here. Why? Because we're using the summer heat to cook up:
The Dollar Store
Super Summer Tour!
That’s right, we’re taking this renowned reading series on the road: packing 7+ of our beloved writers in a van, buying tons of dollar store junk, and hitting 11 cities in 14 days.
For three years, The Dollar Store has sold out its hometown venue with its blue-collar literature, absurdist humor, and a circus of junk. This summer featherproof presents a month long Dollar Store tour that kicks off June 28th, and will cover a lot of ground. Here's who's getting sweaty in the van:
Amelia Gray (AM/PM ,
Featherproof Books, 5
Things Austin reading series), Aaron
Burch (Hobart), Caroline
Picard (Green
Lantern Press, The
Parlor reading series), Zach
Dodson (boring
boring boring, Featherproof Books, The
Show 'n Tell series), Mary
Hamilton, and Lindsay
Hunter (QUICKIES!
reading series), Jac Jemc
(My
Only Wife, Dzanc Books), Blake
Butler (Scorch
Atlas, Featherproof, EVER,
Calamari,
Lamination Colony), Patrick
Somerville (Trouble,
Vintage, The
Cradle, Little, Brown), and of course Jonathan
Messinger (Hiding
Out , Featherproof Books, The
Dollar Store reading series).
We'll also feature great local writers in each stop on the tour. What are the stops, you ask? For a complete list, check the website: dollarstoreshow.com. But first, we're starting with the:
CHICAGO LAUNCH BBQ PATIO PARTY,
Sunday June 28th1-6pm, $8
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave
Chicago, IL 60642
Readings by: Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Chris
Bower, Aaron
Burch, Elizabeth Crane, Zach
Dodson, Natalie Edwards, Amelia
Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay
Hunter, Jac
Jemc,
Jonathan
Messinger, Caroline
Picard, Diana Slickman, Scott Stealey, Jill Summers, Robbie Q. Telfer
Improv by: 1, 2, Fag and Hag! (Seth Dodson, Kellen Alexander and Christina Boucher), and An Oak (Neil Dandade and Adam Schwartz)
It's ALSO a big barbeque, and all you can eat drumsticks, and veggie burgers, and fixin's, and corn-on-the-cob, and picnic sides!
Oh, and one more thing: we’re raffling off a custom-built, featherproof-themed bike, compliments of Working Bikes Cooperative.
This afternoon delight will cost $8 at the door, and for $8 you get 8 things:
1. Admission
2. A featherproof mini book
3. Readings by Chicago’s finest and Improv by Chicago’s funniest
4. Hosted bar by Red Stripe 1-3pm! Yum!
5. All the barbeque you can eat
6. Your very own Dollar Store official souvenir pin
7. A Working Bikes bike raffle ticket
8. A shot at a missed connection, and the time of your life.
Buy tickets HERE! NOW!
Food generously sponsored by Eye Spy Optical. Bring old glasses to be recycled! Check out eyespyoptical.com!
Open bar generously sponsored by Red Stripe. Come from 1 - 3pm for beers! Check out redstripebeer.com!
So check out dollarstoreshow.com, or join the facebook event in your city.
It wouldn't be a tour if we weren't bringing you the newness, so here's what's out now:
Two new exciting minis, one by hometown hero Joe Meno, the very guy who showed us that vans + books can = magic. His most recent novel, The Great Perhaps, is without a doubt awesome. We also have a mini from Aaron Burch, mastermind of Hobart, the lit journal we'd die to be as cool as. Aaron's coming on the whole Dollar Store tour, and will have the latest issue available. These minis are free downloads in the Mini Book section now!
We'll have copies of AM/PM on the road, if you're lucky. They're moving fast, thanks to a slate of recent raves. Listen to the word on the street:
"At moments screwy, prickly and pleasantly surprising, Gray’s short shorts deliver youthful snapshots about being nuts in love... A delectable debut."—Publishers Weekly
"Amelia Gray's AM/PM is a collection of flash fiction, stories that create tangible worlds and interesting characters in their 50 to 150 words. More importantly (and amazingly), read together these stories form a cohesive and often surprising narrative through their recurring themes and characters."—Largehearted Boy
"62. AM/PM is a do-it-yourself kit to protect imagination."—John Madera, Word Riot
There may even be some early, leaking copies of Scorch Atlas, if you're double lucky. We've got mini-excerpts of both of those in the Mini Book section now, to whet your palette.
We've also been feeling the heat from Poets & Writers, (check out the latest issue for a great article by Timothy Schaffert), the lovely Lauren Cerand, and Newcity's Lit 50 list. We're swooning.
Someone turn on the AC. This summer is getting hot.
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Written by Alexis Thomas
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In Chicago, you know it’s summer when Milwaukee Avenue traffic is congested with more bikes then cars and you can’t decide which BBQ you should go to (if you ask us, go anywhere there is free food and beer). Zip up those hot shorts and grease up your bike chain, because this summer is going to be (dare we say) the best summer ever.
We are kicking off our summer with two awesome events. This Friday, at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, Jean Thompson, who the Chicago Tribune says ”is a master of dialogue, character, and plot” will be reading from her soon to be released collection of short stories titled Do Not Deny Me. The reading will also feature Featherproof mini-book author Lindsay Hunter, and J. Adams Oaks, author of Why I Fight. We're so excited to team up with our BFF Lauren Cerand on this one, our heads might pop. The event will begin at 7:30 PM. You don’t want to miss it. Here's a flyer Nick Mecci drew for us:
Also in the tradition of Chicago summers, this weekend’s Printers Row Book Fair, kicks off the endless supply of fairs and festivals. From 10-6 on both days, we will be at tables 327 and 329, along with our friends Green Lantern Press and Make Magazine. Stop by. Hang out. Buy a book. Say hi. Seriously, we’d love you for it.
Last but not least, weheard a rumor that will make you drool with amazement. This summer, awesome interview she gave to Tobias Carroll at the site that always makes us smile, The Scowl. Also, please dirtect your attention to the newest review of her book AM/PM. You can also check out the Word Space she just wrote for HTML Giant.
Let's make a point of seeing each other soon.
Love,
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The Dollar Store Show Tour: Nashville, Friday July 3
Fri, Jul 3rd, 2009, @7:00pm -
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The Dollar Store Show Tour: Austin, Sunday July 5
Sun, Jul 5th, 2009, @8:00pm - Scoot Inn
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The Dollar Store Show Tour: Houston, Monday July 6
Mon, Jul 6th, 2009, @7:00am - Domy Books
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The Dollar Store Show Tour: New Orleans, Tuesday July 7
Tue, Jul 7th, 2009, @8:00pm - The Allways Lounge
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