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Free Book Friday: Awkward Two

By JK Evanczuk on Friday, October 1, 2010 - View Comments

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 Wyatt for scoring a copy of Recipes for Endangered Species by Traci O. Connor.

Awkward Two from Awkward Press

This week, we are giving away a copy of Awkward Two from Awkward Press. The villains at Awkward Press are at it again with Awkward Two, a collection of tales so fiendishly inventive they can barely be contained by the rigid boundaries of their wood-pulp prison. Awkward Two features thirty-three original short works by twenty-five of the modern world’s finest scribes in a package that is at once sophisticated and refreshingly humble. Designed by lauded New York graphics-artistry firm Rumors, Awkward Two is brimming with stories guaranteed to shock and amaze. Step inside its welcoming pages and immerse yourself in cracking-good tales of time-traveling hedonists, sadistic lawyers, tiny celebrities, board-game characters come to life, close encounters of the preteen kind, heartbreaking machines, gallivanting playwrights, and twenty-six other devilishly imaginative scenarios. Check out the book trailer below:

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Awkward Press. Read more »

This Week: Odd Book Titles, The Catcher in the Rye for a New Generation

By JK Evanczuk on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - View Comments

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 Psychothe 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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Free Book Friday: Awkward One

By JK Evanczuk on Friday, October 30, 2009 - View Comments

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.

Awkward One by Awkward Press

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 »