What to Read When You’d Rather be in Australia
Featuring an “erotic lesbian crime thriller,” because we need that in our lives right now.
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Posts Tagged: Two Dollar Radio
Doomscrolling in Novel Form: A Conversation with John Elizabeth Stintzi
You’ll really love this book if you have the opinion that reality is weird. And if you think, like me, that the fact that so many people believe that there’s even a steady thing that we could call reality is fucking insane. If that’s who you are, this book is definitely for you.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Experience What We Experience: A Conversation with Adam Thompson
Adam Thompson discusses his debut story collection, BORN INTO THIS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Gina Nutt
“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #194: Sarah Rose Etter
“[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”
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Outside the Flow of Culture: A Conversation with Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina discusses her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH.
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Carving Out Enough Space on the Cloud: Talking with Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib discusses They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, honoring survival by showing up, and refusing to be governed by genre.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Words as Events: A Conversation with Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
The Guardian looks at how an Australian feminist bookstore took on MRA trolls. Two Dollar Radio, a Columbus-based independent publisher, plans to open a bookstore. A community bookstore in Amman, Jordan that charged a pay-what-you-can fee for books nearly went bankrupt, but was saved by crowdfunding from around the world.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He pays close attention to the details of the every day, infusing humor and self-deprecation, combining […]
...moreOn Publishers Big and Small
At the Atlantic, Nathan Scott McNamara provides an optimistic view of the symbiotic relationship between massive corporate publishers and small indie houses. Profiling energetic presses like Graywolf, Coffee House, Two Dollar Radio, and Dorothy, McNamara argues: …by inventing new models rather than trying to repeat past success, by valuing ingenuity over magnitude, by thinking of sales as […]
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The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
David Schuman reviews The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak
Karolina Waclawiak discusses her latest book, The Invaders, the dark side of human nature, and what it really means to be a “beach read”.
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The Rumpus Interview with Shane Jones
Author Shane Jones talks about publishing, his new novel Crystal Eaters, and the freedom that comes with rejection.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott McClanahan
Writer Scott McClanahan talks about DIY book tours, making films with Two Dollar Radio, producing “neurotic things that are fucked-up and nasty,” and the sinister nature of tote bags.
...moreCome To The Frequencies #3 Release Party In LA!
LA Rockers! Go to Stories Books and Cafe tonight at 7 pm for the release of Two Dollar Radio’s Frequencies #3, a biannual journal of artful essays. The release party features the stylistic readings of Rumpus contributor Grace Krilanovich and Sara Finnerty, as well as Trinie Dalton, Anne-Marie Kinney, and Aaron Shulman.
...moreTwo Dollar Radio Is Moving Into Film!
The Columbus based indie publisher, Two Dollar Radio is expanding to the big screen! One of the first titles to be released from Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures is The Removals, written by Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes and directed by Grace Krilanovich. Also, check out this trailer for another forthcoming release, The Greenbrier Ghost!
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Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
Coleen Muir reviews Jeff Jackson’s MIRA CORPORA today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreEarly Impressions Of Orange Eats Creeps
After negotiating a last minute address change, among other last minute changes, I finally received my much-anticipated copy of The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich. I haven’t had much time with it yet but, after the first twenty pages, I can safely say it is a pretty incredible read. If the mishaps of Slutty […]
...moreErickson Eats Oranges, Or How To Really Like A Book
I’m a sucker for blurbs, I have to admit. But then writers blurb their friends, right? It’s just the right thing to do, so maybe it doesn’t say that much about the book. Yet I’m always looking to see what writers have praised what books and why. It’s borderline compulsive. (Jonathan Lethem, I’ve decided, has […]
...moreIf Only Nothing Would Grow
It isn’t lyrical, it isn’t fun, it isn’t a spectacle, it doesn’t beg for your attention—Nog honestly considers the absurdity and sadness of everyday life.
...moreA Faithful Grope in the Dark
Are marketing departments running the major publishing houses? Do editors and agents know what they’re doing? Are small presses the future of literature? Is everything a crapshoot? What’s a first-time novelist to do?
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