The 2009 Oddest Book Title prize has drawn a record number of submissions, including the gem at left.

Fuck Yeah NYRB Classics!! Via The Millions.

American Psycho…the musical!

One poem, translated 31 ways. Via Silliman’s Blog.

What would your favorite TV characters read?

Choose your own literary elite nickname. Mine is ‘Helpless Drunken Cobra.’

Is Shoplifting from American Apparel the new Catcher in the Rye?

Our pals at Awkward Press (publishers of the very enjoyable Awkward One) are currently accepting submissions for their upcoming issue Awkward Two. Details here.

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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 Ginny Martyn for scoring a copy of The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

This week, we are giving away a copy of Awkward One by Awkward Press. Be prepared to tumble headfirst into a collection of five imaginative fiction pieces by Clay McLeod Chapman, Jeffrey Dinsmore, Kyle Jarrow, Honor Rovai, and Michael Cipra. During your trip through the salty brambles of Awkward One, you’ll meet such characters as: Mrs. Havermeyer, a woman whose son gets up to some very naughty business; Beatrice Throop, a girl on the verge of womanhood whose mother suffers from a thoroughly obnoxious malady; James Fitzgerald, a young man with a knack for turning trash into art; Jeff and Janie, a honeymooning couple who are about to experience a profound shift in consciousness; and Caroline, a grieving mother with a deadly secret. Read more »