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Small Beer Press Sale
I wish I had seen this a little sooner. If you go to the Small Beer Press website and place an order, they will donate 20% of the proceeds to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Possibly, this is moot. Obama is way up and has lots of money. And the election is next week. And. And. And.
But you might as well do it because the books are all also on sale. For $264 you can have hardcover copies of everything they have published.
For $78, you can have everything they published in 2008.
Even if you are apolitical, you should consider buying stuff. Small Beer Press rules. Recommendations after the jump.
Alan DeNiro’s Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead includes an excellent story called “Child Assassin,” which was originally published by One-Story. It’s a deeply disturbing story, and one I loved. It begins
No one knew what to call him, which suited him perfectly well, because he liked to kill babies, and it was better not to have a name attached to such acts. Most of the babies he killed were the sons and daughters of high-level bureaucrats from around the world. He liked to strangle and not cut; in fact, he was quite afraid of knives and never had a barber shave him.
Small Beer put out an anthology called Trampoline that includes a story called “King of Spain.” It was written by Dave Shaw. The narrator is dying of bone cancer, and he has a monkey. I love this one as well, and once typed out the entire thing. Ed Park is in this anthology as well. And a writer named Chris Rowe has a story about a man who builds a boat out of wine corks, which actually happened.
The novel Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart is very good, and includes a line about the amount of eye liner one must wear to be fired from Galleria Men’s Warehouse. REM is referenced in the title and the story itself. There are ghosts and a man named Dead Kennedy.
Carol Emshwiller’s work is quite good. I’m partial to the novel The Mount, a story about human beings as horses for a tiny race of aliens who have conquered the Earth. It has an old-school science fiction sort of tone to it, ignoring scientific accuracy and the familiar sci-fi deus ex machina solutions in favor of story-telling. The narrator is one of the alien’s mounts.
Kelly Link’s books are quite good, too. I like Magic for Beginners a little better. But not much.
Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich is one of my favorite books. Ever. I interviewed Ray here. When I was the web editor at Monkeybicycle, Ray sent me this story. Blake once blogged about Stanley Crawford, and asked him to be his grandfather. In that spirit, Ray, be my uncle.
Tags: Cheap books, Obama, Small Beer Press
I like it when there are comments.
If I have more comments, I get paid more, don’t I Blake?
I like it when there are comments.
If I have more comments, I get paid more, don’t I Blake?
matthew i am trying to increase your comments so that you get paid more
matthew i am trying to increase your comments so that you get paid more
Jimmy,
Thank you for helping me increase the number of comments, and giving me an opportunity to reply to your comment, which further increases the number of comments. You are awesome at helping.
Jimmy,
Thank you for helping me increase the number of comments, and giving me an opportunity to reply to your comment, which further increases the number of comments. You are awesome at helping.
you are welcome matthew, i’m glad to be further increasing your comments by saying thank you. pr, jeremy, and barry: where are you guys? can you please help matthew?
you are welcome matthew, i’m glad to be further increasing your comments by saying thank you. pr, jeremy, and barry: where are you guys? can you please help matthew?
i suppose i can help.
cash rulez everything around me cream get da money. dolla dolla billz ya’ll
FREE KWAME
i suppose i can help.
cash rulez everything around me cream get da money. dolla dolla billz ya’ll
FREE KWAME
I want to help with the comments too. I hate to be left out in the comment helping. Surely this will improve my chances in the afterlife?
I want to help with the comments too. I hate to be left out in the comment helping. Surely this will improve my chances in the afterlife?
i will buy discounted books when the profit goes to jello biafra for prez.
i will buy discounted books when the profit goes to jello biafra for prez.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet=good, but probably not on sale
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet=good, but probably not on sale
Your all doing a bang up job helping out by adding comments to post.
Barry, Ben, Blake, Jimmy—good good all of you.
Your all doing a bang up job helping out by adding comments to post.
Barry, Ben, Blake, Jimmy—good good all of you.
Ah, but they are, Bradley. Sale price on subscriptions, anyway.
Ah, but they are, Bradley. Sale price on subscriptions, anyway.
i am here to increase comments. i believe in you matthew. you will get more comments than you thought possible. everything is possible for you matthew. comments, happiness, money, paperboy for gameboy, and friends. i am here to help you because i believe in you matthew.
i am here to increase comments. i believe in you matthew. you will get more comments than you thought possible. everything is possible for you matthew. comments, happiness, money, paperboy for gameboy, and friends. i am here to help you because i believe in you matthew.
I like the Ray Vukcevich story in their mag that was about a room filled with bathtubs that were filled with men.
I like the Ray Vukcevich story in their mag that was about a room filled with bathtubs that were filled with men.
Thank you, Sam. I believe in you, too. And also I believe in me.
Ray. He’s the best.
Thank you, Sam. I believe in you, too. And also I believe in me.
Ray. He’s the best.
I read his detective novel. It was ok.
I read his detective novel. It was ok.
i was smoking expensive cigars while ignoring the virtual world.
i don’t vote. you are a silly goose if you think ‘voting’ matters or this or that politician makes a difference.
government is government. i refuse to participate.
jimmy,
spell my damn name right damn you or i will weep and stab my mothers reproduction hole repeatedly.
i was smoking expensive cigars while ignoring the virtual world.
i don’t vote. you are a silly goose if you think ‘voting’ matters or this or that politician makes a difference.
government is government. i refuse to participate.
jimmy,
spell my damn name right damn you or i will weep and stab my mothers reproduction hole repeatedly.
why don’t these assholes donate 20% more to the writers who worked hard to create. maybe these writers do not agree with the political aims of the publisher.
i don’t know. i am getting bitter over this. i am sorry i suppose.
the day i am an expatriot is coming soon. the u.s. is the amityville horror house and the walls are whispering ‘get out’. i’m getting the fuck out before the bees toilet protrude and sting my puckered anus.
two comments at least.
jello biafra licks toe webbings for kicks.
why don’t these assholes donate 20% more to the writers who worked hard to create. maybe these writers do not agree with the political aims of the publisher.
i don’t know. i am getting bitter over this. i am sorry i suppose.
the day i am an expatriot is coming soon. the u.s. is the amityville horror house and the walls are whispering ‘get out’. i’m getting the fuck out before the bees toilet protrude and sting my puckered anus.
two comments at least.
jello biafra licks toe webbings for kicks.
jereme:
sometimes i feel like you do. do the expatriate thing. move to greenland or something. but i must say, since you are questioning everyone else’s naivety…
if you think the governments and politics of any other country in the world arent just as shitty and in 90 percent of the cases even moreso, then ours, then you are the one who is being foolish. the world is fucked up everywhere. you might as well stay in the place where you can tell everyone they are fucked up and where there is a t least clean drinking water… well… for the moment anyway.
FREE KWAME
jereme:
sometimes i feel like you do. do the expatriate thing. move to greenland or something. but i must say, since you are questioning everyone else’s naivety…
if you think the governments and politics of any other country in the world arent just as shitty and in 90 percent of the cases even moreso, then ours, then you are the one who is being foolish. the world is fucked up everywhere. you might as well stay in the place where you can tell everyone they are fucked up and where there is a t least clean drinking water… well… for the moment anyway.
FREE KWAME
I was too sad and drunk last night to help with the comments.
Barry has a point. Clean drinking water rules. But, I have an inner expat in me. And an outer one. You see, other countries, like the dominican republic, let’s say, don’t have clean water for their peeps, but they also don’t roam around the world killing and stealing and shit. So, they’re fucked up, but they aren’t imperialistic assholes. I love the expat community there, btw. I hang there a lot, with lots of expats.
My brain hurts. I clicked on that last entry about the writer rejected lady ( I think she’s a lady, what do I know) and then checked out her website, and there is someone there called “pr”. That pr over there? Not me. I may change to pbr soon, so no one confuses me with that other pr.
I was too sad and drunk last night to help with the comments.
Barry has a point. Clean drinking water rules. But, I have an inner expat in me. And an outer one. You see, other countries, like the dominican republic, let’s say, don’t have clean water for their peeps, but they also don’t roam around the world killing and stealing and shit. So, they’re fucked up, but they aren’t imperialistic assholes. I love the expat community there, btw. I hang there a lot, with lots of expats.
My brain hurts. I clicked on that last entry about the writer rejected lady ( I think she’s a lady, what do I know) and then checked out her website, and there is someone there called “pr”. That pr over there? Not me. I may change to pbr soon, so no one confuses me with that other pr.
Also, Barry, I think Kwame maybe shouldn’t be free. Just my two cents.
Also, Barry, I think Kwame maybe shouldn’t be free. Just my two cents.
barry,
i am not naive. in certain other countries corruption is acknowledged. i am okay paying government bribes. i am okay with saying ‘we are corrupt, pay us’.
other countries do not incite disgust in me when i analyze their faults.
america is like a child molesting, meth addicted, kleptomaniac felon relative.except my uncle ted doesn’t act arrogant and righteous when he visits on thanksgiving and fucks my daughter.
at least uncle ted lets me have the last drumstick.
barry,
i am not naive. in certain other countries corruption is acknowledged. i am okay paying government bribes. i am okay with saying ‘we are corrupt, pay us’.
other countries do not incite disgust in me when i analyze their faults.
america is like a child molesting, meth addicted, kleptomaniac felon relative.except my uncle ted doesn’t act arrogant and righteous when he visits on thanksgiving and fucks my daughter.
at least uncle ted lets me have the last drumstick.
forget i said anything. i am sorry. i hate politics.
i should refrain from comments in the morning when i am super grumpy and want to destroy the world because it is morning and there is nothing better to do except destroy everything.
forget i said anything. i am sorry. i hate politics.
i should refrain from comments in the morning when i am super grumpy and want to destroy the world because it is morning and there is nothing better to do except destroy everything.
pr:
people from dominican republic dont steal or kill.. ha ha. you’re a funny lady.
and with kwame,
the only time a politician serves jail time and pays a million dollars for telling a lie is if he is a blackman from detroit. kwame has worked miracles for the city and its hard for people outside of detroit to see that. he won reelection mid controversy and the city council voted not to remove him from office. detroiters love him. i think that speaks multitudes.
i mean what, he let an intern blow him and lied about it… since when do politicians who do that go to jail?
and another thing with america. its hard for us to analyze it because we are inside. other countries have analyzed it from the outside and they have decided coming here legally or illegally is worth dying for. when millions of people a year almost kill themselves to sneak into a different country besides u.s. i will change my mind. america isnt perfect but nothing and nowhere is perfect, ill take america over any other shithole countries imperfections any day and anyone born and raised here who wouldnt is foolish.
pr:
people from dominican republic dont steal or kill.. ha ha. you’re a funny lady.
and with kwame,
the only time a politician serves jail time and pays a million dollars for telling a lie is if he is a blackman from detroit. kwame has worked miracles for the city and its hard for people outside of detroit to see that. he won reelection mid controversy and the city council voted not to remove him from office. detroiters love him. i think that speaks multitudes.
i mean what, he let an intern blow him and lied about it… since when do politicians who do that go to jail?
and another thing with america. its hard for us to analyze it because we are inside. other countries have analyzed it from the outside and they have decided coming here legally or illegally is worth dying for. when millions of people a year almost kill themselves to sneak into a different country besides u.s. i will change my mind. america isnt perfect but nothing and nowhere is perfect, ill take america over any other shithole countries imperfections any day and anyone born and raised here who wouldnt is foolish.
I didn’t make myself very clear. People in the DR steal and kill, but what I meant was that the DR is not an international power, that goes and does that elsewhere to other countries citizens. We do, Russia does, China and so on. I don’t think we are any worse than others. I also am very aware that people die trying to come here all the time and how great this country is. My mother was an immigrant and my kids went to a school that was 70 percent dominican- some seriously grateful people to be here. I am in no way ungrateful for how fortunate I am to be a US citizen, although I am not a fan of Bush.
But I can dig some of the expat stuff. I’ve lived in foreign countries and liked it. And there is something about the expat mentality- the outsiderness of it– that appeals to me. My parents live in Europe- retired there. I don’t know- I was in Buenos Aires recently and LOVED it. I like the whole damn world, honestly.
Interesting take on Kwame. I will concede to you on all that. I only googled him after you posted Free Kwame and then I read the wikipedia article so I don’t know shit. Wiki makes him sound bad. You make him sound good. I will believe you over Wiki.
I didn’t make myself very clear. People in the DR steal and kill, but what I meant was that the DR is not an international power, that goes and does that elsewhere to other countries citizens. We do, Russia does, China and so on. I don’t think we are any worse than others. I also am very aware that people die trying to come here all the time and how great this country is. My mother was an immigrant and my kids went to a school that was 70 percent dominican- some seriously grateful people to be here. I am in no way ungrateful for how fortunate I am to be a US citizen, although I am not a fan of Bush.
But I can dig some of the expat stuff. I’ve lived in foreign countries and liked it. And there is something about the expat mentality- the outsiderness of it– that appeals to me. My parents live in Europe- retired there. I don’t know- I was in Buenos Aires recently and LOVED it. I like the whole damn world, honestly.
Interesting take on Kwame. I will concede to you on all that. I only googled him after you posted Free Kwame and then I read the wikipedia article so I don’t know shit. Wiki makes him sound bad. You make him sound good. I will believe you over Wiki.
in france i wouldn’t have to work/commute 75 hours a week to survive.
yes i would get raped on taxes. i am getting raped on taxes here. wtf.
i am fond of ‘america’ the country, the perverse government makes me sick.
the DR grows tobacco for some of the cigars I smoke. I will move there and live on a tobacco farm and hate america and steal and murder people and not be foolish but be foolish because i left america.
fuck america.
fuck you barry.
right in your american pie hole.
in france i wouldn’t have to work/commute 75 hours a week to survive.
yes i would get raped on taxes. i am getting raped on taxes here. wtf.
i am fond of ‘america’ the country, the perverse government makes me sick.
the DR grows tobacco for some of the cigars I smoke. I will move there and live on a tobacco farm and hate america and steal and murder people and not be foolish but be foolish because i left america.
fuck america.
fuck you barry.
right in your american pie hole.
I don’t want Barry to hate me. I love this country, but not our current administration, that is true. I also love other countries. I l heart the world, man. I do.
I’m sorry I was wrong about Kwame. The media is making him look bad. That doesn’t mean he is bad. I don’t know shit about Detroit, except that I was in the Greyhound bus station there a few times in the 80s and it wasn’t very nice (niether was I then, if you know what I mean).
Jereme, you can go stay at my pad in the DR. (I wanna retire there maybe so I bought a cheap ass hut there a few years ago..i go down 3 to 4 times a year- tons of expats there…rum, cigars, beaches, weed, rum, hookers, nice sunny weather and so on). Oh, and lots of crime!
I don’t want Barry to hate me. I love this country, but not our current administration, that is true. I also love other countries. I l heart the world, man. I do.
I’m sorry I was wrong about Kwame. The media is making him look bad. That doesn’t mean he is bad. I don’t know shit about Detroit, except that I was in the Greyhound bus station there a few times in the 80s and it wasn’t very nice (niether was I then, if you know what I mean).
Jereme, you can go stay at my pad in the DR. (I wanna retire there maybe so I bought a cheap ass hut there a few years ago..i go down 3 to 4 times a year- tons of expats there…rum, cigars, beaches, weed, rum, hookers, nice sunny weather and so on). Oh, and lots of crime!
pr,
actually, you’ve described exactly what i am seeking.
my idea has always been to go live in the jungle in belize.
DR sounds just as good. all i need is a hut, small boat to fish in, books.
i desire less.
pr,
actually, you’ve described exactly what i am seeking.
my idea has always been to go live in the jungle in belize.
DR sounds just as good. all i need is a hut, small boat to fish in, books.
i desire less.
Belize is good too I bet. You can hang out with the Zoetrope peeps there! I think they speak English there.
People do it, man, they check out. I might. I half do. They check out of “society”, live in remote places…it’s very romantic and silly and yet people do it and are happy.
One thing about expat communties is it really is an interesting slice of humanity. For instance, one of the reasons I like living in foreign countries is cause its alienating. And I always feel alienated anyway, so it sort of outsides the inside, you know?
The thing about going down there full time for me at this point is that the only jobs are, like, hookers and pimps. Hotel work, too, restaurants too, lots of contruction but that the Haitains do. But my husband claims he’ll pimp me out if I make him go down there for good. So. Not yet.
I’m still feeling bad about Kwame.
Belize is good too I bet. You can hang out with the Zoetrope peeps there! I think they speak English there.
People do it, man, they check out. I might. I half do. They check out of “society”, live in remote places…it’s very romantic and silly and yet people do it and are happy.
One thing about expat communties is it really is an interesting slice of humanity. For instance, one of the reasons I like living in foreign countries is cause its alienating. And I always feel alienated anyway, so it sort of outsides the inside, you know?
The thing about going down there full time for me at this point is that the only jobs are, like, hookers and pimps. Hotel work, too, restaurants too, lots of contruction but that the Haitains do. But my husband claims he’ll pimp me out if I make him go down there for good. So. Not yet.
I’m still feeling bad about Kwame.
You are all doing an amazing job of increasing my importance to HTMLGiant by making comments on my post. Thank you one and all.
Bradley: Ray excels at the short form. There are some very funny sections in The Man of Maybe Half a Dozen Faces. But.
I prefer the stories.
You are all doing an amazing job of increasing my importance to HTMLGiant by making comments on my post. Thank you one and all.
Bradley: Ray excels at the short form. There are some very funny sections in The Man of Maybe Half a Dozen Faces. But.
I prefer the stories.
I fear we are not being very relevant.
I fear we are not being very relevant.
forget what i said earlier. i just woke up from a good nap.
we reelected bush…..
i know what you mean about living abrad and living in ex pat communities. belive me i think its great and you can have lots of fun, but traveling abroad and hanging out is much different then say trading in your citizenship to become a citizen of another country. i think we are sorta talking about two different things. i agree in the point that you are making but i also agree with myself in my own.
i am not being relevant. i am not relevant. i am not. i am. i
i still love kwame
forget what i said earlier. i just woke up from a good nap.
we reelected bush…..
i know what you mean about living abrad and living in ex pat communities. belive me i think its great and you can have lots of fun, but traveling abroad and hanging out is much different then say trading in your citizenship to become a citizen of another country. i think we are sorta talking about two different things. i agree in the point that you are making but i also agree with myself in my own.
i am not being relevant. i am not relevant. i am not. i am. i
i still love kwame
The media is making him look bad. But like I said, my knowledge of how to do drugs in the bathrooms at the Greyhound station a century ago does not make me an expert on Detroit politicians. I’m sorry you lost a good mayor. That sucks.
We are talking about different things. I am very grateful for my US citizenship, but I don’t prefer this country to others. Of course politicians everwhere are corrupt. But sometimes the weight of being American (or French or whatever) gets to people and they check out. The huge French expat community in the DR all live there cause they hate France. And they drive around on their motos in a bathing suit, screwing Haitain hookers and getting shitfaced on rum. I find them sort of fascinating. I have no idea how many of them give up their citizenship. I guess few. So that is a good point.
Also, my mother never got US citizenship and the good thing about that is now she gets free healthcare in her old age cause she kept her european citizenship. Healthcare rocks.
The media is making him look bad. But like I said, my knowledge of how to do drugs in the bathrooms at the Greyhound station a century ago does not make me an expert on Detroit politicians. I’m sorry you lost a good mayor. That sucks.
We are talking about different things. I am very grateful for my US citizenship, but I don’t prefer this country to others. Of course politicians everwhere are corrupt. But sometimes the weight of being American (or French or whatever) gets to people and they check out. The huge French expat community in the DR all live there cause they hate France. And they drive around on their motos in a bathing suit, screwing Haitain hookers and getting shitfaced on rum. I find them sort of fascinating. I have no idea how many of them give up their citizenship. I guess few. So that is a good point.
Also, my mother never got US citizenship and the good thing about that is now she gets free healthcare in her old age cause she kept her european citizenship. Healthcare rocks.
i love you pr.
i hope i have helped your comments matthew and helped increase your worth to html
i love you pr.
i hope i have helped your comments matthew and helped increase your worth to html
I had a bad day yesterday. Bad things happened. I turn to you Barry, to bring me joy.
I had a bad day yesterday. Bad things happened. I turn to you Barry, to bring me joy.
It is fine to not be relevant to the post. It’s all about the numbers.
It is fine to not be relevant to the post. It’s all about the numbers.
hunter s. thompson ‘rum diaries’
i want something like that
fuck relevance
hunter s. thompson ‘rum diaries’
i want something like that
fuck relevance
i am on morphine, vicadin, and an antbiotic. i went to the hospital last night an i am apparently passing two kidney stones and i have a serious bladder infection.
i like the distinction jereme made between the state and the people. i agree. i love you jereme. i would like to join you in the DR in PR’s hut. hopefully we can all go there together and drink rum and write hunteresque things while there.
i feel loopy.
i am on morphine, vicadin, and an antbiotic. i went to the hospital last night an i am apparently passing two kidney stones and i have a serious bladder infection.
i like the distinction jereme made between the state and the people. i agree. i love you jereme. i would like to join you in the DR in PR’s hut. hopefully we can all go there together and drink rum and write hunteresque things while there.
i feel loopy.
i love you pr. i wish i could help with your bad day, but i cannot.
i love you pr. i wish i could help with your bad day, but i cannot.
Oh my God, Barry, I am so sorry to hear about the kidney stones. I hear that is as painful as childbirth, man. I hope you have someone there taking care of you. I wish I could be there taking care of you.
Oh my God, Barry, I am so sorry to hear about the kidney stones. I hear that is as painful as childbirth, man. I hope you have someone there taking care of you. I wish I could be there taking care of you.