Lazy Fascist Press

The Denver Post on Zombie Bake-Off

cameronpierc — Tue, 29 May 2012 00:21:51 +0000

The Denver Post has reviewed Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones. You can read the read the review here.

Upcoming Release: Scott McClanahan, David Ohle, and Sam Pink

cameronpierc — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:16:35 +0000

We’ve been a bit quiet as we put the finishing touches on our next three releases, The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1, The Devil in Kansas by David Ohle, and a re-release of I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink.

Lazy Fascist author Patrick Wensink has been lively of late. In the past week, his novel Broken Piano for President was reviewed by The Fanzine and JMWW. Wensink also wrote an excellent essay on rock novels for Three Guys One Book and saw additional essays/interviews/lists appear in several other places around the internet. Keep up on all Broken Piano news at www.brokenpianoforpresident.com.

Raffle of Alan M. Clark’s OF THIMBLE AND THREAT-inspired Painting

cameronpierc — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:12:27 +0000

This is the final announcement for the raffle of a free painting by Alan M. Clark to promote Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim, published by Lazy Fascist Press. The image on the left is the painting by Alan M. Clark for the raffle [details below]. The image is inspired by Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim, and is currently unpublished. The painting is acrylic on hardboard with dimensions of 12″x18″.

For those of you who missed the initial announcement, here’s how to enter the raffle:

A. Take a picture of yourself with Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim and post it online (on your blog/website, Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere). Send a link to the photo to lazyfascist@gmail.com.

B. Correctly answer the following trivia questions (send your answers to lazyfascist@gmail.com):

1. What song did Katie sing in the novel during her cousin’s execution?

2. What was given to infants by the childminder, Patricia Ennis, in order to quiet them?

3. What item in the novel is referred to by the slang expression “nose warmer”?

No purchase necessary. If you have any questions about the raffle, please email lazyfascist@gmail.com. The winner will be announced on June 4th, 2012.

Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim is a story about the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.

Alan M. Clark is a World Fantasy Award-winning artist. He has illustrated the works of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Keene, William F. Nolan, George Orwell, Poppy Z. Brite, and Christopher Golden.

The Next Best Book Blog and Horror Talk on Sam Pink

cameronpierc — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:11:14 +0000

“No One Can Do Anything Worse To You Than You Can is wildly imaginative and very entertaining. The author is simply someone who fans of literature must read and this book is just one more step in the ladder that’s currently taking Lazy Fascist Press into a place within the publishing industry where there’s a lot of room simply because very few have gotten there. Go buy this right now.” – Horror Talk

“Pink’s got to have a bit of genius in him to take something as mind-numbing as a job stocking shelves and turn it into a side street billboard showcasing the internal struggle of the awkward and antisocial. Using the slightly uncomfortable second person perspective, “you” are sucked straight into the mind of, well, yourself. You work at an Ultra-High-Risk department store too close to Blood Alley for anyone’s comfort. You’re made to watch an orientation video of interviews of past employees who are missing body parts and have suffered brain damage due to workplace accidents. You chill with co-workers with names like Sour Cream and humor his fetishist questions. You get a quick thrill out of crushing boxes in the compactor. Your brain thinks up the weirdest shit while you’re working. It just won’t shut off. It never stops…” – The Next Best Book Club on The No Hellos Diet

Vice and The Guardian on Sam Pink

cameronpierc — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:08:21 +0000

Blake Butler profiled Sam Pink at Vice, while over at The Guardian, Damien Walter reviewed The No Hellos Diet as part of his quest to find the best indie weird fiction.

April is Free Porn Month at Lazy Fascist

cameronpierc — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:09:47 +0000

Tired of masturbating to shitty porn? Ashamed that every smutty video you pick out features a pear-shaped orphan getting fucked by a dog? You sick ’ol fucker. Lazy Fascist is here to solve your pornography blues. For the month of April, we want to give you new, exciting, bootlegged, mysterious porn!

Porn for the price of free!

Porn to celebrate books!

It’s simple. You love books and porn. We want to reward your impeccable taste in literature by offering you a free porno. To claim your bootlegged film, all you have to do is review Anatomy Courses by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick in the month of April.

Your review can appear on Amazon, your blog, or any website/magazine on the planet. After your review goes live, send us a link along with your mailing address and pornographic preference (m/m, f/f, f/m, or ‘other’) to lazyfascist@gmail.com.

Bonus sexy prizes will be awarded to those who review Anatomy Courses for prominent/highly trafficked publications.

Films will be shipped out in the beginning of May. Keep in mind, some of you may receive feature length pornos, while others will get short films.

We hope you’ll join us in this celebration of porn and Anatomy Courses, one of the smuttiest, sexiest books of the year.

Sam Pink’s Depressed Woman///Reading The Obese on the Bus///21st Century Horror

cameronpierc — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:04:01 +0000

Sam Pink has started a band. They are called Depressed Woman. You can listen to some of their songs and read Sam Pink’s thoughts on each song here. In a new review of The No Hellos Diet, the blog i am alt lit said this about Sam’s work: “like ‘bukowski to postal workers’ and ‘franzen to academic/overly serious/literature is god types’ sam pink speaks to the ‘service class.’”

Alison Hallett of The Portland Mercury has reported that she feels uncomfortable reading The Obese by Nick Antosca on the bus. Last Saturday, Nick Antosca signed copies of The Obese at one of my favorite bookstores, Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA. Here are two new interviews with Nick: 1) The Collagist, 2) Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

Other Lazy Fascist news of the week:

Anatomy Courses by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick will be taught in a class on 21st Century Horror at Florida State University this fall. Other primary texts include The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper and The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich.

We’re hearing that quantities of the Broken Piano for President soundtrack, which was recently released by Death Bomb Arc, is close to selling out. Thought Catalog published an essay by Wensink about his experience trying to find a publisher for Broken Piano for President. You can read it here.

My Eggs Shat Disney Money: Six Lessons from Anatomy Courses

cameronpierc — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:08:59 +0000

Tobias Carroll of Vol. 1 Brooklyn has written a review-in-lessons of Anatomy Courses. Click on Lesson 2 below to read it.

“2. It’s also absurdly funny in spots. After one passage describing a pyramid in detail, we get this: ‘Our pyramid also had 17,000 sides, which made it not a pyramid.’”

No One Can Do Anything Worse To You Than You Can by Sam Pink

cameronpierc — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:47:20 +0000

Why is it that we’re always afraid of our ankles getting grabbed by a hand coming out of the gutter? And why will our lives be completely fulfilled when we look down one day and notice we’re wearing underwear made out of a brown paper bag?

Thankfully, you don’t have to think about any of that because in his second collection of poetry, Sam Pink has done the work for you.

You will see a crowd of people in your head and the crowd will point at you and say, “Ewww.” You will hang yourself from the ceiling with a hook though your bottom jaw. You will feel at home eating your own heart off a commemorative plate featuring a picture of your corpse.

You won’t learn anything except that, “No one can do anything to you that’s worse than what you’re already thought to yourself. No one can do anything worse to you than the things you’ve already done. No one can do anything worse to you than you can.”

Click here to order No One Can Do Anything Worse To You Than You Can.

Raffle of a Painting by Alan M. Clark Inspired by OF THIMBLE AND THREAT

cameronpierc — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:00:37 +0000

The image above is Alan M. Clark’s sketch and contrast study, produced with black and white pencil on brown paper, for the painting he will later produce for the raffle [details below]. The image is inspired by Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim, published by Lazy Fascist Press. In a final message about the raffle, just before the drawing, we will post the image of the painting.

For those of you who missed the initial announcement, here’s how to enter the raffle:

B. Correctly answer the following trivia questions (send your answers to lazyfascist@gmail.com):

1. What song did Katie sing in the novel during her cousin’s execution?

2. What was given to infants by the childminder, Patricia Ennis, in order to quiet them?

3. What item in the novel is referred to by the slang expression “nose warmer”?

No purchase necessary. If you have any questions about the raffle, please email lazyfascist@gmail.com. The winner will be announced on June 4th, 2012.

Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victimis a story about the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.