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Falcons on the Floor by Justin Sirois

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On the eve of the first siege of Fallujah, Salim and Khalil decide their best chance of survival is to flee up the Euphrates river.

They were wrong.

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Falcons on the Floor
a novel by Justin Sirois
300 pages
5.25 x 8"
Official release: March 2012
$12 USA

Advance Praise:

Falcons on the Floor is the rare novel about war that re-humanizes everyone involved. Through excellent writing and a deep understanding of what occupation does, to civilians and soldiers alike, Sirois and Alshujairy take the reader on a deeply personal journey where we are shown how and why war should be avoided at all cost.
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone

Sirois disproves that art has no place during times of war. He illuminates the absurdities and complexities of war, details a ravaged, gorgeous landscape and the hearts of men in a way only a novel can do. Compelling, heartfelt, intelligent -- Falcons on the Floor shows us how young men, all over this sad planet, become pawns in a world beyond their control.
Paula Bomer, author of Baby and Other Stories

The battle of Fallujah seen on the ground by Iraqis. Two young men slip out of the city under siege to walk through desert patrolled by Coalition commandos to Ramadi. Two young men with conflicting appraisals of the situation, and with the loyalties and lusts of youth and hopeless hopes. The writing of this complex novel makes it a lyrical and sensuous poem – an astonishing and mesmerizing book.
Alphonso Lingis, philosopher and author of The First Person Singular and Body Transformations

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If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany

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Poetry
84 Pages 5 x 8.25"
Paperback
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An early review at The Open End
The poems of Edward Mullany are both seeing things and “seeing things.” They are devices that help us help ourselves to all the mirages and illusions—and then some—that we know to be true.
Graham Foust, author of A Mouth in California

If one of art’s purposes is to revise our perceptions, then Mullany’s work excels. His powerful use of the short line well supports this challenge. Whether they begin with the surreal or mundane, his lyrics pare to essentials poetry’s central subjects—love, death, myth—through his confident vision and craft.
Martha Serpas, author of The Dirty Side of the Storm

As do the little bottles of scotch available on airplanes, these small, potent poems suspend us above the everyday. These deft gestures expose human quandaries without getting stuck in quandariness. They eschew excess—they don’t need it. They’re precise throughout without losing their mystery.
Connie Voisine, author of Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream

Edward Mullany grew up in Australia and the American Midwest. If I Falter at the Gallows is his first book.

Six Off 66 by David Daniel

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About David Daniel:
In addition to nine novels, including Ark (1985), Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame (‘96) and The Tuesday Man (‘91), Daniel has published more than 80 short stories (some of which are collected in Six Off 66). He has worked as a janitor, a carpenter, a tennis instructor, truck driver, and a "brain slicer" at Harvard Medical School. He teaches at Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he has served as the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer in Residence.

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these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtracks of 6 films by stephanie barber by Stephanie Barber

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Cover drawing by Peter Barrickman
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“The films of Stephanie Barber are insouciant forays into the very nature of existence.” - Baltimore City Paper Review

Included in this book and DVD are the soundtracks to six of Stephanie Barber's experimental films. Reading the text while watching the films augments and enriches the understanding of Barber's dense and lovely work. Out of the pairing comes a distinct, engaging literary and cinematic experience.
a few Stephanie Barber reviews:
A PGP Interview with publisher, Adam Robinson
at Afterall
at Artforum
at City Paper
at PANK
About Stephanie Barber (website):
Stephanie Barber has had screenings of her film and video work at MoMA, NY, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center, Chicago Filmmakers and The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Her performances have been featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Museum of Art, The Haggerty Museum of Art and galleries and artspaces around the world.

Stephanie Barber currently lives in Baltimore, MD USA. Her book, poems, was published in 2006 by Bronze Skull Press.

Pee on Water by Rachel Glaser

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$13.95
stories
150 pages
5.5x7.5
cover design by Rachel Glaser
Official release date: September 24


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Glaser's supple narratives reward the reader with dazzling effects.
Stanley G. Crawford, author of Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine

Rachel B. Glaser is a party of one -- smart, zany, and grave. Her stories move like nobody else's among the beguilements and sorrows of being alive. A terrific debut.
Noy Holland, author of What Begins with Bird

Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer.
Giancarlo DiTrapano, founding editor of NY Tyrant and Tyrant Books

These stories are often dazzling, but beneath the bright wit, the weirdness, and the extraordinary invention you will find heart, guts, and a striking intelligence.
Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.!
Pee On Water, the daring first book from Rachel B. Glaser, is a collection of thirteen short stories of vivid imagination and ecstatic language. The first story, called “The Magic Umbrella” reads like an umbrella popping open. It features a flaming stick that talks and a book that ruminates about its place on the shelf. The title story at the end journeys through all of known time, and everything in between runs the gamut. From video games, to the NBA, to 9/11 and HIV, to space travel gone bad, Glaser’s fearlessness makes impossible stories possible.
STORIES ONLINE
"The Totems are Grand" at UNSAID
"Pee On Water" at We Are Champion
"The Kid" at elimae

Kelly Spitzer's Interview with Rachel B. Glaser

Rachel B. Glaser lives in Massachusetts. Here is her blog.

Reviews etc:
Kenyon Review
TriQuarterly
The Collagist
Chamber 4
The The
The Faster Times
We Who Are About to Die
Colin Bassett
Rumble
Big Other



We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young

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92 pages
5.5 x 8.25"
cover design by Mike Young and Rachel B. Glaser
cover art by Lyndsey Lesh
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Mike Young is also the author of Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010 -- see below to purchase together and save). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. He lives in Northampton, MA and blogs at mikeayoung.blogspot.com.


Mike Young’s poetry is an absolute stunner. We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough streams one intricate, scenery chewing, note perfect, balletic, swervy, mind blowing composition after another. These may be nothing but great poems, but I can’t think of a paragraph anywhere that can match them for style or cover their emotional distance.
Dennis Cooper

We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough reveals the gestures & tics of common experience as portals to the sublime, the theoretical & the silly. These poems jumpcut like French New Wave & confide like a sinner, always trembling with energy, always trying to contain the tiltawhirl glamour of life & exploding.
Mathias Svalina

We are all good says the book, says the poet. The poet Mike Young is not afraid of marionberries or MySpace, Nyquil, or Dunkin’ Donuts or KFC, or a crucifix on wheels, or Gillis Beukel or Martha Stewart or Minnie Mouse, or Cheetos or Craigslist, or breast milk or milk duds or Cool Whip, or NASCAR or MMORPGs, or a theory of radical alterity or The Decemberists or Barry Bonds, or Arkansas or Crescent City, California. Oh my god, he is not afraid of Chuckie Cheese! This is a reckless, fearless poet we’re meeting, and I think we should all wish him safe travels. He reminds me of Marcel Proust. He is that greedy and that good.
Dara Wier



Also by Mike Young:
Look! Look! Feathers!, a collection of short stories, is forthcoming from Word Riot in December 2010.

“Mike Young is young and his song is real. This book is full of comedy, radiance and devastation.”
–Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

Check it out at Word Riot.

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The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven by Mairéad Byrne

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The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven by Mairéad Byrne
5.5x7"
208 pages
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Cover design by Stephanie Barber
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The Rumpus review by Joseph Goosey
Big Other review by Michael Leong

JMWW review by Ashlie Kauffman
Hobart review by Ethel Rohan
Harriet interview with Sina Queyras
Big Other interview (Adam Robinson on the "making-of")
Review by Steven Fama

WORDS by Andy Devine

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Words by Andy Devine
with an Afterword by Michael Kimball
Release date: April 20, 2010
5x7"
104 pages
book design by Justin Sirois
$10 USA
Also available at SPD
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"Andy Devine's Words is incomparable, utterly original, and a joy to experience. It is such a unique piece of art, that the first time you read it (and I imagine you'll read it many times) it will shock your sensibilities in the same way as the first view of a Pollock might."
--Jessica Anya Blau


"I dare anyone to sit alone in a room and read this book aloud. It's what I did, and I'm all the more damaged and alive because of it. The stuttering lucidity of Devine is perhaps too new and lasting for most, but Devine has arrived and his pages are here to stay. He is our first Neo-Phoenician. Each repeated sound desperately matters, as each returns from itself and boldly moves forth."
--David McLendon

“Words is unlike any writing by even the riskiest literary innovators working today. Devine has dismantled the English language to its elemental state and has used recognizable words to build a language beyond language.”
--Josh Maday

In Andy Devine’s Words, the reader becomes the writer and the text must be interpreted to create meaning, sense, sentences, story, plot, etc. Devine has discovered a way to fill a single page of fiction with thousands of words and his novel is an amazing feat of brevity and scope.
--Michael Kimball

On the Periodic Table of Language, Andy Devine is both hydrogen and lanthanoid; that is, devised both of our most common components, found there in all things, that which when forced to split will cause explosion; and at the same time, of a rare-earth: used as a catalyst, an ignition element in lighters and torches, an electron cathode, a scintillator. Where Devine devinely deconstructs before our eyes our words into their long-disguised periodic tables, we are witness to language not as we've watched it wrangled into mirages all these years, but a dismantling, a reminder, of the cells and syllables from whence we came, and where as both reader and creator we may begin again.
--Blake Butler

Your Trouble is Ballooning by Amber Nelson

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38 pages
80 pages
6 x 7.5"
Split side with A. Minetta Gould
cover art by Kelly Packer
Official release date 01/11/2011
preorder in mid December

Advance praise from Stacy Doris, author of Knot:
Amber Nelson works in the tension between meaning and making.: a music of shifts and sleights. Intention is not imposed but what emerges, not the isolate personal “I” but the pulse of American culture and history. “In the correspondence of assassination/ In the simmer green floor that jettisons” –- please read!

About the book and its author:
Your Trouble is Ballooning is comprised of eight sections of dense and lovely mysteries. Nelson is the co-founder and editor for alice blue. She has recent work published in H_ngm_n, Coconut, and Columbia Poetry Review. Another chapbook, Diary of When Being With Friends Feels Like Watching TV, will be available from Slash Pine Press.

Arousing Notoriety by A. Minetta Gould

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32 pages
80 pages
6 x 7.5"
Split side with Amber Nelson
Cover art by Kelly Packer

Advance praise from Catherine Wagner, author of My New Job:
What a strange batch of lovers: Banjo, Bear, Bow Tie, Half Organ, Russia, and Strong Heart. But love is a strange affair, and A. Minetta Gould's language, wry, rowdy and ingenious, mocks it up, down, and all around.

from Janaka Stucky, publisher of Black Ocean books:
Arousing Notoriety operates in the realm of dream logic, and by that I mean Gould gestures through apparent acts of pure consciousness that appear stripped of mundane symbolism—exposing the impulsivity of language. In that sense, what we see here are poems of desire without want or lust—poems of desire in its most elemental state, utterly at play.

About the book and its author:
Arousing Notoriety is a collection of poems about affairs between peculiar characters named Banjo and Bear, Russia and Half Organ and Strong Heart. Gould edits the online journal Lonesome Fowl and is the Associate Editor for Black Ocean. She has recent work published in Columbia Poetry Review, Unsaid, and New Orleans Review. Another chapbook, Dutch Baby Combo and The Boys are Talking about Restless at Five Points, will be available from Spooky Girlfriend Press.

Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young

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Microfiction
104pp
perfect bound
cover art by Christine Sajecki
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But at SPD
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Read Joseph Young’s work:
at Frigg
at Lamination Colony
at JMWW

Read about Joseph Young:
at Flash Fiction.net
on How We Dwell
at God Shuffles His Feet
in conversation with Randall Brown
 
Reviews:
at NOO Journal
at New Pages
at The Short Review
at JMWW
at Rumble Magazine
at Matchbook
at The Faster Times
at B-More Art
at .the idiom.
at htmlgiant
at Big Other
at Ghost Factory
at Flash Fiction.net
at Mungo

Bio:
Joseph lives and writes in Baltimore, MD. His microfiction work has recently appeared in Lamination Colony, FRiGG, and wigleaf and is forthcoming in Caketrain and Grey Sparrow. Past publications include Mississippi Review Online, Exquisite Corpse, and Smokelong. He has written on art for a variety of magazines and newspapers, and some of this writing can be found on Baltimore Interview.

He is fond of collaboration and has created art exhibitions in concert with visual artists such as Christine Sajecki and Magnolia Laurie. Visit his microfiction blog and his website.

Sasquatch Stories by Mike Topp

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68 pages
4.5 x 7"
Cover art by Tao Lin
"Sea Nerd" by David Berman
Official release date 12/14/10
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Advance praise from Gary Lutz
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

Advance praise from Paul Maliszewski
Mike Topp asked me to write a blurb for his book. I thought about it, but then decided Mike Topp should be writing his own blurbs. Nobody writes better in fewer words than Mike Topp. Nobody. Mike Topp creates worlds in seven words, sometimes six.

Other praise for Mike Topp from Eileen Myles
Just when I think Mike Topp’s poems are funny, they’re wise. Just when I think they’re wise, they’re bad. Just when I think they’re bad, they’re great. Mike Topp’s poems are exactly like the world.

About the book and Mike Topp, its author
Sasquatch Stories is a collection of poetry joke stories, each one better than the one before and after it. Mike Topp was born in Washington, D.C. He is currently living in New York City unless he has died or moved.

Anna Mockler's review at The Evergreen Review
Blake Butler interviews Mike Topp at HTMLGIANT
Another interview, at Qu3stions
A cheaper book by Mike Topp
A more expensive one, with user reviews!


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MLKNG SCKLS by Justin Sirois

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60 pp
5 x 7"
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The balance of power and our role in it will necessarily shift after reading this book.
- John Dermot Woods


THE UNDERSTANDING CAMPAIGN

Interview at Big Other
Review at Bookslut

MLKNG SCKLS is a short collection of Salim Abid's deleted Word documents written during his escape up the Euphrates from Fallujah to Ramadi. These texts could have been included in Falcons on the Floor, which is the novel Salim wrote about fleeing from his war ravaged city, but for sensitive reasons he chose to remove them.

That metanarrative provides the conceit of this chapbook, lushly composed by Justin Sirois (author of Secondary Sound, BlazeVOX 2008) and edited by Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. MLKNG SCKLS provides a bristling and necessary look into the realities of living in Iraq, complete with dying laptop batteries, knock-off sneakers, and carnage-lined roadways.

“Sirois’ MLKNG SCKLS reads like what might happen if you crossed Gus Van Sant’s Gerry with the parts of an Iraq war documentary that the Bush administration had censored. A tight, spare and quietly tense gem of a book.”
- Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and The Open Curtain

"Sirois' masterful creation is not just a travel narrative, not just an epistolary, not just a war story. This is desert madness made universal, a coming of age rendered apocalyptic in language as sparse and beautiful and ultimately perilous as the desert passage it describes."
- Matt Bell, author of The Collectors and How the Broken Lead the Blind

 

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The Origin of Paranoia as a Heated Mole Suit by Rupert Wondolowski

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52 pages
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Cover design by Stephanie Barber.
Page design by Adam Robinson with thanks to Chris Toll.


About Rupert Wondolowski:
Rupert Wondolowski is the author of The Whispering of Ice Cubes, Humans Go Outside to Hurt You, and a few others. His work has appeared in Murdaland, Lost and Found Times, Rampike, Open 24 Hours, Fell Swoop, Rock Heals, Peek Review, and numerous other literary journals. He is the editor of The Shattered Wig Review and host of the erratically held Shattered Wig Nights at the glorious 14 Karat Cabaret. He occasionally gets to read his work on WYPR's treasured program "The Signal" and to pass judgment on authors far more accomplished than himself in book reviews in Baltimore's City Paper.

A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons

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5 x 7"
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Dear Matthew Simmons,
I am writing today to ask you a question about your book, which I read with great pleasure: what is it?
-Jim Ruland at The Believer
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Read Simmons's story “Caves,” a Lamination Colony eBook

Read Simmons in elimae, “Underlings: a rebuke”
“I did this all because what it is that I am is a man. And I burned that building to the very ground it was there standing on.”

“Matthew Simmons has found a beautiful and extraordinary way to tell a story about the sweetness of sadness and the aloneness of loneliness.”
-Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody


Light Boxes rights sold to Spike Jonze and Penguin Books

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Light Boxes, the first novel from Shane Jones and Publishing Genius Press, received major media attention when the film rights were sold to Spike Jonze and the reprint rights went to Penguin Books.

The remainder of the 600 copies, which Publishing Genius released in February, quickly sold out. The book is available now from Penguin.

At The Faster Times, Rozalia Jovanovic interviewed Adam Robinson about how he felt about the news, and what it meant for Publishing Genius.

Whale Box by Lauren Bender

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Published in October 2007
Ltd edition 100 copies
Sold out in November 2007

El Greed by David NeSmith

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20 pp
5.5 x 8.5"
staple-stitched
original drawing on cover
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