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Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Mike W for snagging a copy of Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla. The Withdrawal Method gives us worlds where Niagara Falls has run dry, where cream meant to curb skin cell rejuvenation can be purchased, and where ancient frustrated chess masters unwittingly invent machines that alter the course of history. Reminiscent of Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, and George Saunders, these worlds are haunting, captivating, and constructed with a poise and precision that reaches beyond technical skill. You can read excerpts from Malla’s story “Pushing Oceans In and Pulling Oceans Out” on the Soft Skull Press website.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Soft Skull Press. Counterpoint is comprised of two imprints, Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press, and in 2008, Counterpoint began publishing books in association with Sierra Club Books. Counterpoint publishes fiction, literature, and poetry in addition to nonfiction, including history, memoir, biography, and nature. Soft Skull publishes contemporary fiction, as well as graphic novels, and nonfiction, including current affairs, counterculture, and politics. Sierra Club Books publishes environmental books.
To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing the following:
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- Becoming Soft Skull’s friend on Twitter, Facebook & MySpace
- Subscribing to Soft Skull’s blog
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- Signing up for our newsletter
Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, December 18 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
Edit: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner AYESHA. Try your luck again with next week’s The Best of Philadelphia Stories from PS Books.
My niece does this thing when I have something she wants (generally sugary) where she diverts my attention by pointing excitedly and exclaiming “look! A Rainbow Pony!” and of course when you look back the cookie exists only as detritus around her mouth.
Which, I suppose, for people who like kids is really cute, but for those of us who like cookies, is not so great.
That said, I really need the digital equivalent of a Rainbow Pony right now because I want the damned book.
Look! Pynchon’s blogging!
This looks wonderful!
Love Murakami.
The first line of the description had me hooked. Definitely want this one.
Thanks!
I want it!
Want to read what those ‘other worlds’ are like. Need an escape.
His piece in the newest Electric Lit was very good — I’d like to read the rest.
awesome.
In it to win it.
Sounds intriguing – please enter my name in your drawing!
I really want this book!! Please enter my name (I also became a fan on Facebook and I make really nice cookies …)
Yes please!
I would love a copy. If I don’t win, perhaps you will take pity on my and send me a copy anyway. I read and review books for publishing companies.
I have this insertion scheme? And, The Withdrawal Method will fit within its borders! I’ll definitely read, analyze and critique this fabulously intriguing novel.
I really enjoyed the last piece I read by Malla- this looks to be just as awesome!
Yes!
ooh, looks good!
A free book would be a wonderful addition to my holidays
I need something new to read over the holidays. This will do nicely.
Thanks!
Ring, meet hat.
Wanting to read more by this author!
WANT
I would love to win a contest of this sort.
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I have wanted to read this collection since I read Pasha’s story Monsters in Zoetrope All-Story.
I’m not really a rainbow pony. I’m a Trojan Appaloosa constructed of Eucalyptus deglupta. I will trade you cookie detritus and disappointment for The Withdrawal Method.
Count me in!
Maka my daya.