Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

Beach 90th

By Justin Hocking

limited edition. handmade. letterpress cover. perfect bound. 33 pages

An excerpt from Justin's memoir-in-progress entitled The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld

$5.00

Constant Rider Omnibus

By Katherine Sharp /Kate Lopresti

128 pages, 1/2 size, paperback

From the publisher: For your reading and riding pleasure, we bring you an anthology of the Constant Rider issues #1-7! Mass transit maven Kate Lopresti spins stories of fights, intoxicated passengers, fellow travelers' reading choices, and even impromptu bus stop singers. Detailing countless years of riding buses, trains, and planes, these pages will leave you engaged and charmed. The cover is a beautiful 2 color illustration from Kalah Allen. New second edition has 64 additional pages!

$6.00

Good Ink:American Short Stories

12 3.5x5 notebooks, cardboard box

American Short Stories pairs ten classic authors with ten contemporary illustrators to breathe new life into some the U.S.A.'s best short stories. From the heart-warming to the horrific, this collection puts a century's worth of must read stories into pocket friendly Scout Books. The perfect fit for anyone who could use a good read on the go! Also included in the set are two blank notebooks for your own big ideas!

Vol.1 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Pierce
Illustrated by Francois Vigneault

Vol.2 "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
Illustrated by Bwana Spoons

Vol.3 "The Jelly Bean" by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Illustrated by Vanessa Davis

Vol.4 "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Illustrated by Gemma Cornell

Vol.5 "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain
Illustrated by Meg Hunt

Vol.6 "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Illustrated by Aaron Renier

Vol.7 "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrated by Zack Soto

Vol.8 "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
Illustrated by Tom Neely

Vol.9 "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
Illustrated by Michael Hunting

Vol.10 "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry
Illustrated by Kate Bingaman-Burt

$34.95

The Heat and the Hot Earth

By Adam Gnade

61 pp., 4x5.5, saddle stapled

From the publisher:

Adam Gnade's new novella is about the story within the story. Waking time and dream dissolve into one as his characters navigate an interconnected world of long conversations, transmissions into the void, and horror stories told firsthand. 

Even for a story concerned with stories, this is a book gill-packed with detail and minutiae; it's a dense, humid, crowded America--pocket dials and celebrity magazines, suburban parking lots and border crossings, a Civil War ghost story, a wedding and a mercy killing, a crowded street full of industry and an angry Russian tumblr-ing her way through spring break. It's about the disappearing ground of love and the endless nightmare of endless nights alone, the book's inhabitants looking at a lostness they can't quite articulate. (As says the vacationing Russian Eva Neveski, "What I see is this: miserableness, no joy, lack of god. Young people without direction, stuck in apartments, doing drugs, afraid to quit bad jobs. Everyone either wasting away like skeletons or getting cartoonishly fat. The few (the vast minority) who 'know what they want from life' striking out alone and scattering themselves  across the globe.")

$4.00

In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manifesto

From the book jacket:

"Part history and part how-to,

uses a group of amazing organizations to highlight some of the most important factors in starting all-ages spaces and youth music organizations, from finding the right space, to building community relationships, to grassroots promotion & marketing. Accompanying the book is a free downloadable soundtrack providing a window into homegrown music communities nationwide."

$14.99

In Search of the Lost Taste

By Joshua Ploeg

127 pp., 7x5.5, perfect bound

"Joshua Ploeg's cooking blows my mind so much that a secret door opens in the back of my head and white doves, musical notes, and winged horses fly out. His cooking is transcendent: Dangerous, strange and perfect. It's full of colorful tastes that explode in your mouth like Pop Rocks flavor combinations you never thought possible. Crazy alchemy. Freaky magic.
Joshua's the Traveling Chef; you make an appointment, he shows up at your house with a load of groceries, makes an incredible multi-course vegan meal using your pots and pans, and then he's gone like the Lone Ranger riding into a big Texas sunset.
Joshua's been in a bunch of hardcore bands and he brings all the good things punk rock gave us: risk, passion, creativity, and weirdness; then he applies them to his meals. I randomly lucked into one of his dinners last year. I usually eat really fast and mindlessly, but I had to take this one slow and let all the flavors develop and do their respective stuff. Each had its own distinctive note its own voice that rang out to let it be known that it was something special and unique. It was an experience in the finest sense of the word." -Adam Gnade

$8.00

Invincible Summer Anthology: Volume 2

By Nicole Georges

Volume 2 includes issues 9-14 of Nicole Georges' Invincible Summer

$15.00

Invincible Summer: An Anthology

By Nicole Georges

192 pages, 1/2 legal, paperback

Nicole used to scare me with her unbounded energy and enthusiasm, but now I'm quite fond of her. She's a truly original young lady who's found her own way through low paying jobs, heartbreaking romances, and other punk rock tribulations to create a meaningful life for herself and inspire those around her. This book collects the first eight issue of her zine, Invincible Summer, it's chock full of writing, comics, illustrations and vegan recipes. This second edition collects issues #1-8 of her zine and features 38 new pages! Recently featured on the Sister Spit tour!

$12.00

Logodaedaly,or,Sleight of Words

By Erzsebet Gilbert

285 pp., 7.5x5.5, hardcover

What is a balanoid? Who carries an ombrifuge into a storm? How is a filipendulous city destroyed? These and other fabulous questions are found in Logodaedaly, or, Sleight-of-Words: a dictionary of the imagination. Within its pages, young author Erzsebet Gilbert has delved into the history of the English language to unearth a host of forgotten, quirky, obsolete and utterly bizarre words, and created a phrasebook like no other. It is a dictionary whose entries are not merely words, but the fantastical stories and wild musings behind them -- a dictionary of two-headed serpents and royal assassins, warrior birds and people on the moon, specters and true love.

As vividly antiquated as it is experimental, the ornately designed book features the original images -- from dragons to hummingbirds -- of artist Sherise Talbott, illuminations whose intricacy and style might have emerged from the museums of centuries ago. Through Logodaedaly one might not learn an everyday vocabulary, but beyond A and Z the reader finds that the meaning of a word is always much more than it seems.

$18.95

Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making The Biggest Mistake Of Your Life

By Zach

120 pp., 7x4.25, perfect bound

There's probably been a point in your life where you questioned your actions, wished you could skip ahead pages to immediately view the consequences, or choose the most fiery way out. Really, is deciding to kiss the worst person in the world for you really so different from choosing to make a crash landing into an alien jungle below? After all, a relationship and a Choose Your Own Adventure novel are really just a series of quick but ultimately blind judgement calls leading to your salvation or destruction. Through the medium of Choose Your Own Adventure, Love lets you, a starfighter pilot of the Galactic Space Force navigate a romance with a young woman and your struggles to cope with her alcoholism. Only with the right choices will you be able to save your relationship and discover the secret of the Ant Warriors!

$5.00