PRICK OF THE SPINDLE. 4.4

Another great issue of PRICK OF THE SPINDLE. here's just a quick mention of some of what you're getting. Read the rest HERE.

Andrew Bowen
Robert, the Architect

Andrew Wallace Chamings
The Piano Lesson

Leah Erickson
The Night Brides

Regina Faunes
Study Abroad

Marko Fong
The Amnesia Academy

Jennifer Juneau
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Peter D. Kramer
The Name of the Helper

Reprint in Memoriam:
Cami Park
When You Heard

Brian Mihok
Sharp Shooter
Little Lubyanka

D. Quentin Miller
3 x 2

Justin Nicholes
Summer Ice

Jeanne Thornton
Temple of Zuul

Scott Tucker
Ousmane Would Like to Go Nightclubbing with Cadiatu

Donna D. Vitucci
Bliss

Valerie Vogrin
Apologies

SMALL PRESS HOLIDAY RECOMMENDATIONS. THANKS FOR THE SHOUT OUT BEN

Here are holiday book recommendations from BEN TANZER, JASON JORDAN, aand a few others over at KAREN THE SAMLL PRESS LIBRARIAN blog.

Monday, December 20, 2010
Small Press Holiday Recommendations: On the Eve of Winter Solstice

Today’s small press picks come from New York, Louisville, and Chicago. Long before making her acquaintance, I remember poet Maggie Balistreri’s brilliant chapbook The Evasion-English Dictionary (since picked up by Melville House) from the consignment shelf at St. Mark’s Bookshop. Later I was thrilled when I heard she was going to library school, and again when she got a job as a librarian at the Poets House, now located in Battery Park City. Fiction writer Jason Jordan was the Beard Guy I used to see at all the New Yinzer literary events, but I finally met him officially when Amy Guth came into Pittsburgh for a reading. I remember seeing Amy talking to Jason at ModernFormations: Realizing how well she knew Beard Guy from cyberspace was one of the first moments I understood the extent of the online small press community. Jason has since left Pittsburgh and I miss seeing him around. I met the always-hilarious Ben Tanzer when Scott McClanahan suggested I arrange a reading for him in December 2009: Ben (a fiction writer based in Chicago) was coming through Pittsburgh en route to a reading in West Virginia. I got Savannah Schroll Guz involved, and the resulting reading launched the Seasonal Shorts reading series, now held four times a year in Pittsburgh (and run by Savannah). Thanks to Maggie, Jason, and Ben for sharing their Small Press Picks today:

READ THE PICKS HERE

PAULA BOMER. BABY & OTHER STORIES. O! MAGAZINE

HELL YEAH

O! Magazine, January 2011.

Paula Bomer's BABY is #1 on the 10 Titles to Pick Up Now

PRICK OF THE SPINDLE. 4.3

Another excellent issue. I'd start with the fiction and work my way from there. PRICK OF THE SPINDLE 4.3

fiction

April E. Bacon
When the Sun is Glorious

Laura Bogart
Skin

Edmond Caldwell
An Affair

Kimberly Long Cockroft
Trip to Kamalganj
Mother Alice Laughing
Disappearances

Heather Fowler
A Companion to Minnow Lake: A Novelette

Sharon Goldner
The Landscape and Mrs. Patel

Sam Gridley
What Bubba Saw

Kevin P. Keating
Antiquing

Cami Park
When You Heard

K.R. Sands
What is Written, Sweet Sister?

James Schlatter
Every Creeping Thing

Kathryn Megan Starks
When You Hear This Sound

FIX IT BROKEN. ISSUE 1

“The Comfort of Dead Whales” – Harper Hull (Fashionable Fiction Winner)

Harper's majestic, yet eerie story about a man, his wife, a secluded island, and the mesmerizing remnants of a whale carcass, has been crowned Issue #1's Fashionable Fiction Winner. Kristian Woodmansee, of Elusive Designs, did a wonderful job creating the shirt to accompany the fiction piece. Kristian's design captures a sense of simplicity and subtle darkness that we feel pairs nicely with Harper's work, and of course is just plain cool to look at and wear. Shirts are limited, but they are for sale ($12) at Elusive Designs. All profit derived from shirt sales will act as a donation to FIX IT BROKEN, so that we can maintain our goal of bringing you quality fiction and fashionable t-shirts.

“Beware the Carousel” – Matthew Dexter

“There Ain’t No Sin and There Ain’t No Virtue” – Zoe Alexandra

“Meat” – Neil Richter

“The Comet Train” – Robert Vaughan

“Salamonster, During D.C.’s Destruction” – Sean Lyman Frasier

“The Lunatic and the Tiger Shark” – Crystal Beran

“I Became an Old Couple” – Greg Gerke

“Her Heart is a Screen Door, Too.”- Ryder Collins

Two Collaborative Pieces by Barry Graham and Peter Schwartz


Special Thanks to John Dermot Woods for the wonderful cover art, and Elusive Designs for helping create a great first t-shirt. Thanks to everyone who has supported FIX IT BROKEN. We hope you enjoy the first Issue.

READ ISSUE 1 HERE

WITNESS. CURTIS SMITH

WITNESS
nonfiction by Curtis Smith

150 pages. ISBN 978-1-934513-28-6
5" x 8", trade paperback

First edition - $18

Release date: December 16, 2010

Read a review from the SMALL PRESS REVIEWS

NOTHING OR NEXT TO NOTHING - barry graham

I know I haven't posted to the DOGZPLOT news blog in a long time, but I'm gonna get it up and running again as soon as I get back home to Michigan next week. But for now, here's one small piece of news:

If anyone is interested in reviewing the book, I would greatly appreciate it. It's a quick 120-ish page read. I'll send you a PDF now and then a hardcopy when it's released. Please and thanks. If so, please email: dogzplot.press@yahoo.com

Nothing or Next to Nothing
a novella by
Barry Graham

ISBN: 978-1-59948-290-3
Cover price: $9.95

Projected release date: May 31, 2011. The Advance Discount price of $5.50 will be available until May 17, 2011.

About the Author

Barry Graham received his MFA from Rutgers University, where he currently teaches writing. He is the author of The National Virginity Pledge, which was a finalist for the NGI Book Award for Short Story Fiction. One of the stories therein was awarded the 2009 Jumpmettle Award for Excellence in Fiction, and two other stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Graham is the flash fiction editor for DOGZPLOT.

Synopsis

After finding their mother dead at the breakfast table and subsequently being abandoned by their father, half-brother and sister, Derek and Daisy Kehoe are left to fend for themselves. Their relationship quickly suffers from patterned violence, abuse, and neglect, until Daisy herself disappears under curious circumstances. Derek slowly gets his life in order, finding stability through college, a steady relationship, and money he inherits through a series of botched armed robberies. But of course, nothing stays stable for long. Everything and everyone in Derek’s life has an ulterior motive, reasons for embracing him and reasons for throwing him away.

Comments

In a world in which nothing or next to nothing matters anymore, Barry Graham's hero Derek is doomed because he hasn't erased his last shred of decency yet. He suffers abuse, heartbreak, beatings, and ultimately the loss of the only person he ever cared for, because he can't believe in a world where a McDonald's restaurant might be the last church, and an okay BigMac our last prayer. Graham's book is an elegy to something we've lost without noticing or caring. It's a mean punch to the chin; it floors you, and still you'll be glad you took it.
--Stefan Kiesbye


Read the prologue in its entirety HERE

ORDER HERE

Any orders would be very very much appreciated. Please and thanks.