Disappearing, Inc.
Asheville's own Brandon Amico recorded some poems from his new debut collection Disappearing, Inc. from GOLD WAKE PRESS. Thanks Brandon!"Brandon Amico's debut collection orbits a dark star that burns...
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How To Survive a Fire
Please enjoy this reading by Rachel Ann Brickner. The essay is awesome and the audio production is so rad our heads exploded. Thanks, Rachel. You're cool.
When I was a girl, I had nightmares about fire. I’d wake up in...
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College Novel by Blake Middleton
College Novel by Blake Middleton is coming soon from Apocalypse Party. Here's the author reading you an excerpt. Thanks, Blake. Party on.Excerpt from ‘College Novel’Later that day Jordan read The Shock Doctrine...Excerpt of Temporal By Troy James Weaver
Below is an excerpt of Temporal by Troy James Weaver. Troy recorded this from his home in Kansas and it sounds awesome. One day we're going to release the whole book. For now listen to this and have...
#23 The First Voice Actor Episode w/ Kasi Hollowell
We were lucky to work with Kasi Hollowell on Animals Eat Each Other. Now she's on the podcast talking about being a voice actor for books, anime and other stuff. Check it out. Thanks, Kasi! Feel free to subscribe to...
My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Keeps a Loaded Gun on His Nightstand
Enjoy the first of several poems from the incredible J. Bailey Hutchinson. Thanks so much for these lovely readings. We hope everyone is having a great holiday season for real. Love. <3 My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Keeps a Loaded...
Poems by Catch Business
Please enjoy this reading from the collection Quick Fix by Catch Business, out now from 2fast2house. This collection of poetry interprets the paradoxical nature of caring for others with moments too embarrassing to forget and the occasional reclamation of hope. Thanks...
The Silence Is The Noise by Bart Schaneman
This awesome reading is an excerpt from The Silence is the Noise, a short novel by Bart Schaneman, published on Aug. 30, 2018, by Trident Press in Boulder, Colorado. You can order...
Wind Sock by McKenzie Toma
Wind Sock is the most recent release form the author and poet McKenzie Toma. A recent addition to Asheville, NC by way of New York City, McKenzie Toma’s writing examines the nature of being, blending a deep engagement in...
Sad Laughter by Brian Alan Ellis
Sad Laughter: A Totally Unessential and Demotivational Guide to Reading, Writing, and Publishing is available now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Here's an excerpt of the author reading from it. This is the second year in a row we're...
North and Central by Bob Hartley
North and Central by Bob Hartley perfectly evokes Chicago in the epic winter of ‘78-‘79—the bleak season of blizzards and disco and John Wayne Gacy—capturing the city in microcosm through the denizens of one blue-collar watering hole. You can...
Eat the Flowers by Ken Baumann
Eat the Flowers is a collection of poems, aphorisms, and essays. These texts speak of care, fascism, pain, animality, socialism, art, and language. This book is available at a pay-what-you-can price. You can buy it here, and you should....
Boo Hoo by Brad Phillips
Below is a reading from Essays and Fictions by Brad Phillips, out in January, 2019 from New York Tyrant. You can preorder right now. Plus, we're making the audiobook with Brad so everything is very cool.Brad Phillips'...
Coldwater Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney
Out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms, Coldwater Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney. Thanks so freaking much to the author for this reading. Enjoy, and go get the book!Shep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised...
LIVE BLOG by Megan Boyle
We're so lucky to have Megan Boyle on the site today. Her new book LIVE BLOG is out now from Tyrant Books. Go and get it unless you want to miss out on something very important!...Under The Sea by Mark Leidner
Mark Leidner wrote a collection of stories called Under The Sea, which was published by Tyrant Books in July. It's pretty darn incredible and currently being produced as an audiobook by yours truly. For the time being we thought it...
Excerpt of Welfare by Steve Anwyll
Steve Anwyll wrote a book called Welfare and it's coming out in November from our pals at Tyrant Books. Welfare is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A high school student leaves...
The Lonely Witness by William Boyle
Check out an excerpt of William Boyle's second novel THE LONELY WITNESS, out now from Pegasus Books!When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she finds herself fascinated by the killer and decides to track...
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