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  • Bust Down the Door and …

    Issue 8 is now available for purchase at our website.




    It includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.

    4 years ago
  • Kara

    I wanted to suggest the pen name Zebo Jacoby...it's the name of a mini poodle at my work.

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    you want it like that?

    my bookstore just got 4 copies of boring, and now they're basically the first thing you see when you walk in.

    so, eh hem, you got it like that.

    4 years ago
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    We need not speak of our love.
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Jonathan and Zach
Print mini-books, maxi-books,
and me. Dig them now


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AM/PM

AM/PM
By Amelia Gray

Available now at PaperEggBooks.com! If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, Gray's flash-fiction collection, impish humor is on full display. Tour through the lives of 23 characters across 120 stories full of lizard tails, Schrödinger boxes and volcano love. Follow June, who wakes up one morning covered in seeds; Leonard, who falls in love with a chaise lounge; and Andrew, who talks to his house in times of crisis. An intermittent love story as seen through a darkly comic lens, Gray mixes poetry and prose, humor and hubris to create a truly original piece of fiction.
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Get it early! A beautiful work of short-short fiction, AM/PM is the beginning of an exciting new adventure here at featherproof. We're calling it Paper Egg!

Click to subscribe! The first 250 people who subscribe will receive a free copy of AM/PM, by Amelia Gray, while you wait for the arrival of your first Paper Egg Book, THE AWFUL POSSIBILITIES by Christian Tebordo. Free! Amazing book! Free! And of course, AM/PM won’t count as one of the two books you receive per year in the mail. HURRY, before they are all gone!


Out Now:
Grow Book

Grow:
An Environmentally Friendly Book
By Alyson Beaton and K. J. Bradley

Coming March 2009! Grow plants the seed of environmental responsibility in young children through a fun and interactive daily routine, with playful graphics and typography. This simple routine can benefit the environment, community, health, and a child’s awareness of self in the larger world. KJ Bradley and Alyson Beaton have created the first completely 'squeaky green' book to take a child through a typical day, implementing a routine that is environmentally and socially sound. The sharply designed book helps parents teach children very early on how easy it is to take steps for a cleaner earth. Check out growbook.org!

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Zach Plague

boring boring boring boring
boring boring boring
By Zach Plague

On Sale Now! When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide lose their post-modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus, while she obsesses over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the art school set experiments with bad drugs, bad sex, and bad ideas. But none of these desperate young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his potent sex drug. This wild slew of characters get caught up in the gravitational pull of The Platypus' giant art ball, where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion. Zach Plague has written and designed a hybrid typo/graphic novel which skewers the art world, and those boring enough to fall into its traps.
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Check out all these 'boring' versions: the book, the audio cd, the posters, or the online version!

This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record

This Will Go Down on Your
Permanent Record
By Susannah Felts

On Sale now! At the beginning of a lonely summer, 16-year-old Vaughn Vance meets Sophie Birch, and the two forge an instant and volatile alliance at Nashville’s neglected Dragon Park. But when Vaughn takes up photography, she trains her lens on Sophie, and their bond dissolves as quickly as it came into focus. Felts keenly illuminates the pitfalls of coming of age as an artist, the slippery nature of identity, and the clash of class in the New South. This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record is a sparkling and probing debut novel from a rising literary star.
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Hiding Out

Hiding Out
By Jonathan Messinger
Illustrated by Rob Funderburk
[A] striking debut...reading his succinct stories is as natural as breathing. But like the quick, fool-the-eye, knock-you-flat moves of kung fu (a recurrent theme), these tales of lonely, brooding, sweetly romantic guys pack covert and concentrated power.—Chicago Tribune

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Messinger’s stories are aching, not bleak, and the collection, wittily and expressively illustrated with Rob Funderburk’s line drawings, is fun, engaging, and a bit more than thought-provoking. A fresh, spot-on debut.—Mark Eleveld, Booklist

On Sale Now! Nothing is as it seems: A jilted lover dons robot armor to win back the heart of an ex-girlfriend; an angel loots the home of a single father; a teenager finds the key to everlasting life in a video game. In this much-anticipated debut, one of Chicago's most exciting young writers has crafted playful and empathic tales of misguided lonely hearts. Sparkling with humor and showcasing an array of styles, Hiding Out features characters dodging consequences while trying desperately to connect.

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Coming Soon:

Scorch Atlas

Scorch Atlas
By Blake Butler

Coming Fall 2009! A novel of 14 interlocking stories set in ruined American locales where birds speak gibberish, the sky rains gravel, and millions starve, disappear or grow coats of mold. In 'The Disappeared,' a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. In 'The Ruined Child,' a boy swells to fill his parents' ransacked attic. Rendered in a variety of narrative forms, from a psychedelic fable to a skewed insurance claim questionnaire, Blake Butler's full-length fiction debut paints a gorgeously grotesque version of America, bringing to mind both Kelly Link and William Gass, yet turned with Butler's own eye for the apocalyptic and bizarre.

Blake Butler is the author of EVER, a novella forthcoming from Calamari Press in late 08. His work has appeared in Fence, Willow Springs, The Believer, Ninth Letter, and many others. He is the editor of Lamination Colony and No Colony, two experimental journals of new prose. He lives in Atlanta and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.

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