Sure it’s Thursday, but I’m so gung-ho about kicking off Free Book Friday that I just can’t help starting a day early. In our new feature, you have the chance each week to snag some of the best titles from the industry publishing industry. For free!

This week, we are giving away a copy of Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer. Originally published by Random House in 1968, Nog is the novel that inspired Thomas Pynchon to declare that “the Novel of Bullshit is dead.” Over the years, Nog has become a universally revered cult novel and symbol of the countercultural movement. Time Out New York says that Nog’s “combo of Samuel Beckett syntax and hippie-era freakiness mapped out new literary territory for generations to come. In Wurlitzer’s signature hypnotic and haunting voice, Nog tells the tale of a man adrift through the American West, armed with nothing more than his own three pencil-thin memories and an octopus in a bathysphere. This edition of Nog features a new introduction from noted critic and writer Erik Davis (TechGnosis).”

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Two Dollar Radio. Two Dollar Radio is a family-run outfit founded in 2005 with the mission to reaffirm the cultural and artistic spirit of the publishing industry. They aim to do this by presenting bold works of literary merit, each book individually and collectively providing a sonic progression that they believe to be too loud to ignore.

You can read the first chapter of Nog for free on Two Dollar Radio’s website.

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Winner will be chosen randomly at 5pm on Friday, Sept 11. The winner must provide his/her mailing address via email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.

Good luck!

Congrats to MATT BELL for winning this week! If you didn’t win, try try again.