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 Janine for picking up a copy of Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr.

This week, we are giving away a copy of Crust by Lawrence Shainberg. Dubbed a “Vonnegut-worthy satire” by the Boston Globe, Crust is the story of prolific writer and author of the Complete Series (The Complete Book of Aids, 9/11, Terrorism), Walker Linchuk, who is suffering from a seven month plague of writer’s block. One morning Linchuk wakes to find a crust in his nose – the “definitive crust of his life” – that awakens him to a new world of desire and enlightenment. Equal parts George Orwell and Christopher Guest, Crust is an insightful and hilarious journey through our hyper-technological age.”

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 Crust for free on Two Dollar Radio’s website.

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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 Henry Powderly for picking up a copy of The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana.

This week, we are giving away a copy of Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr. A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller, Some Things That Meant the World to Me is the highly praised first novel from Joshua Mohr, and has elicited comparisons from reviewers to Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Haruki Murakami, and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son. Some Things is the coming-of-age story of a 30-year-old man named Rhonda who suffers from depersonalization. When Rhonda was a child – abandoned and ignored by his mother; abused and misguided by his mother’s boyfriend – he imagined the rooms of his home drifting apart from one another like separating continents. Years later, after an embarrassing episode as an adult, Rhonda’s inner-child appears, leading him to a trapdoor in a most unlikely place that will force him to finally confront his troubled past.

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 Some Things That Meant the World to Me for free on Two Dollar Radio’s website.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment with your e-mail address in the space below, or send an email directly to contact@litdrift.com. We also recommend doing any or all of the following: Read more »

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 Matt Bell for picking up a copy of Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer.

This week, we are giving away a copy of The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana. In the internationally acclaimed author’s first novel since Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to this side-splitting spin on Fu Manchu. Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort, Dr. Obregon Petrie, attempt to thwart Fu Manchu’s latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American Piyas, matching wits with a club-footed ex-Stasi, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies. Praised as “half William Burroughs, half William Gibson” by the Washington Post and “The Wizard of Oz meets Naked Lunch” by Boldtype, The Shanghai Gesture is a highly imaginative new contribution from a fiercely original American artist.

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 The Shanghai Gesture for free on Two Dollar Radio’s website.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment with your e-mail address in the space below, or send an email directly to contact@litdrift.com. We also recommend doing any or all of the following: Read more »

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.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment with your e-mail address in the space below, or send an email directly to contact@litdrift.com. We also recommend doing any or all of the following: Read more »