Anatomy Courses reviewed at jmww

24 Feb

“Anatomy Courses, a combo effort by gifted young writers Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick, is unlike anything I’ve read. Published by one of the best publishing houses you’ve probably never heard of, Lazy Fascist Press, this small book is a one-stop destination for readers wondering where modern literature is and where it’s heading.

The cover design is gorgeous, conjuring up a sixties-style look. The vintage, well-worn trade paperback, almost textbook, look is a refreshing change to the current fad of either over-the-top imagery dominating the cover or mismatching texts strewn about haphazardly. It’s as subtly captivating as the text within, something that’s become synonymous with the press.”

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The Obese reviewed at jmww

21 Feb

“Living up to his reputation for innovative yet accessible work, Antosca creates a story that is so grotesquely hilarious it makes me wonder if it’s, indeed, possible. A world full of overweight people trying to eat the one person who despises them most sounds intriguing, but it’s the writing, the attention to craft throughout the text, that renders this interesting premise into a fully fleshed (pardon the pun) out book worth reading.

For fans of Antosca’s previous work, The Obese is a must read; for the virgins out there, my suggestion is that you pop your cherry and submit to the zany mind of Antosca. My bet is you won’t be disappointed.“

—Patrick Trotti

Two Books to Break Your Spirit This Valentine’s Day

6 Feb

This Valentine’s Day, put down the pipe bomb and kill yourself with a book instead. Overcome emotional eating by telling your nasty pet what the bullies did to you in junior high. Buy some new sweatpants at K-Mart and breathe easy knowing everybody hates you. Go to church. Reenact your best worst memories with your dad. Shoot up your favorite fast food restaurant. Or just shoot up.

Because black metal is hot.

Because the art museum is a great place to die.

Because books about death and dying are sexy.

Order Anatomy Courses and The Obese to get laid this Valentine’s Day.

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Out Now: Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones

5 Feb

DOUGHNUTS + ZOMBIES + WRESTLERS = AWESOME

It’s time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and perhaps earn a chance to be on the famous cooking show, How Would You Cook It, Then?

When the bake-off is crashed by a federation of pro wrestlers — including American Badass, Jersey Devil Jill, Tiny Giant, The Village Person, Jonah the Whale, the Hellbillies, and the fan favorite Xombie — all hell is set to break loose. Your heart beats faster as you anticipate who will come out on top in the ultimate showdown of the century: soccer moms or pro wrestlers. Anything can happen.

An infected batch of donuts has transformed most of the wrestlers into mindless brain-eaters and the doors of the convention center have been chained shut, leaving the survivors locked inside, forced to fend for themselves against the hungry dead.

Possessing the intensity of a shotgun to the face, Zombie Bake-Off is a stripped-down masterpiece of blood and doughnuts from celebrated author Stephen Graham Jones.

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Happy Birthday, Riley Michael Parker

31 Jan

Lazy Fascist author Riley Michael Parker turns 28 today. Riley’s A PLAGUE OF WOLVES AND WOMEN is a lyrical and haunting novel about a timeless village governed by myth and madness. It’s a stunning work destined to attract a devoted cult following. And it also happens to be the perfect book to cozy up with for this last leg of winter.

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Coming Valentine’s Day: Anatomy Courses by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick

23 Jan

A new short novel by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick, coming from Lazy Fascist on Valentine’s Day 2012.

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Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #10

23 Jan

The latest issue of classic bizarro journal Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens is now available. And yes, that is a unicorn impaling an army man on the cover. Edited by Bradley Sands, Issue 10 features stories by Laird Hunt, Cameron Pierce, D. Harlan Wilson, Kirk Jones, Kirsten Alene, and more. Here’s the complete table of contents:

GUESS WHAT – Amanda Billings
THE HECTOR REPORT – Eric Hawthorn
ARTICHOKE – Kirsten Alene
EXCURSIONS IN VIRAL PSYCHOLOGY – Kirk Jones
ROMANTIC FUCKING COMEDY – Andrew W. Adams
#30 – Laird Hunt
THE HUIS CLOS HOTEL – D. Harlan Wilson
DIE YOU DOUGHNUT BASTARDS! – Cameron Pierce
DEATH AND THE PEOPLE – Amber Sparks
A REVIEW OF STEVE LOWE’S MUSCLE MEMORY – Matthew Revert
A REVIEW OF SHANE JONES’ A CAKE APPEARED – Bradley Sands

Click here to order your copy.

Coming Soon: The Obese by Nick Antosca

19 Jan

The No Hellos Diet now available for Kindle

11 Dec

One of our hottest releases of the year, The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink, is now available for the Kindle.

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Of Thimble and Threat on Year’s Best List at SF Signal

8 Dec

Over at SF Signal, Ross Lockhart (managing editor at Night Shade Books and editor of the mammoth The Book of Cthulhu) listed Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim by Alan M. Clark among his favorite books of the year. Here’s what Ross had to say:

I cracked into Alan Clark’s Of Thimble and Threat, expecting to read a chapter or two. Instead, I read the book in a single sitting, drawn in at first by the ingenious form, but kept enraptured by the characters’ humanity and overwhelming sense of verisimilitude. Of Thimble and Threat is no sanitized Victorian Disneyland; it gets right the struggles of the ordinary people of the era, the toxic environs in which they lived (and died), the backbreaking labor conditions, and the laudanum and alcohol-soaked temptations of an age that has been described as the Great Binge.

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