October 7th, 2009 / 11:40 am
 Presses

Kristina Born’s One Hour of Television

Year of the Liquidator, the press Shane Jones and I started earlier this year, will release its first title, Kristina Born’s One Hour of Television, on Halloween.

Designed to run as a series, the books, as we hopefully put out more, will form a continuum of design, like a little freakhouse on your nightstand.

People have already said nice things:

To read One Hour of Television is to flip channels between a 50’s science film on the joys of nuclear prowess and a heist-driven road movie set in a late-imperialist apocalypse. In Born’s hands, all social code is a recipe for deadpan horror. Strained domestic tableaus are intimately wedded to carpet bombings and crowd control, and our best chances at intimacy arrive via gruesome medical emergencies. This book is in revolt against language as an anesthesia machine. It’s in revolt against an empire in which any vote you cast necessarily ends up as a vote for genocide.
– Lara Glenum, author of Maximum Gaga

One Hour of Television‘s recurring headwounds make an apt symbol for the work as a whole; urgent and insistent, the oozing gauze on an otherwise lovely skull. Would that all flash fiction be this deadly.
– Amelia Gray, author of AM/PM

You can read an excerpt and preorder One Hour of Television now for $10.

You can also add the book on Goodreads.

Thanks!

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17 Comments

  1. October 7th, 2009 / 3:59 pm davidpeak—

      mad excited for this and others to come

  2. October 7th, 2009 / 3:59 pm gene—

      people should buy this. read some shitstank in unsaid and no colony and enjoyed it.

  3. October 7th, 2009 / 11:59 am davidpeak—

      mad excited for this and others to come

  4. October 7th, 2009 / 11:59 am gene—

      people should buy this. read some shitstank in unsaid and no colony and enjoyed it.

  5. October 7th, 2009 / 4:36 pm Richard—

      Congratulations Blake (and Kristina). Powerful excerpt. Crap, I may have to buy this. I am so broke. Well, what was I going to do with that $10 anyway, eat lunch?

  6. October 7th, 2009 / 12:36 pm Richard—

      Congratulations Blake (and Kristina). Powerful excerpt. Crap, I may have to buy this. I am so broke. Well, what was I going to do with that $10 anyway, eat lunch?

  7. October 7th, 2009 / 5:13 pm alan—

      I’m looking forward to getting this.

  8. October 7th, 2009 / 1:13 pm alan—

      I’m looking forward to getting this.

  9. October 7th, 2009 / 5:17 pm Blake Butler—

      thanks everybody

  10. October 7th, 2009 / 1:17 pm Blake Butler—

      thanks everybody

  11. October 8th, 2009 / 1:59 am Ken Baumann—

      errrbody in da club

  12. October 7th, 2009 / 9:59 pm Ken Baumann—

      errrbody in da club

  13. October 8th, 2009 / 3:18 pm Eliza—

      The excerpt just sounds like she has Wernicke’s aphasia (so much of what is ever praised on here just sounds like the by-product of that aphasia). Is that what “fucked language” is? Or “shitstank?” Is that a viable aesthetic stance? You all should sign anyone who gets a concussion, just in case they can consequently hear/write “fucked language.”

  14. October 8th, 2009 / 11:18 am Eliza—

      The excerpt just sounds like she has Wernicke’s aphasia (so much of what is ever praised on here just sounds like the by-product of that aphasia). Is that what “fucked language” is? Or “shitstank?” Is that a viable aesthetic stance? You all should sign anyone who gets a concussion, just in case they can consequently hear/write “fucked language.”

  15. October 9th, 2009 / 3:17 am Blake Butler—

      seems like a compliment

      you got a pretty mouth

  16. October 8th, 2009 / 11:17 pm Blake Butler—

      seems like a compliment

      you got a pretty mouth

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