Following AWP, we’ll be heading to New York for the official release party of Sam Pink’s latest novel, Rontel. Here are the full details:

RONTEL RELEASE PARTY @ Housing Works Bookstore (126 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012)

Co-hosted by Electric Literature and Lazy Fascist Press

Join Electric Literature and Lazy Fascist Press as they celebrate the release of Sam Pink’s Rontel, a novel about the dull pains of never quite becoming an adult.

“Rontel is the funniest book I have ever read.” —Tao Lin

“Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink’s Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.” — Joe Meno

About the Readers:

Sam Pink, the latest in shithead technology, is the author of Person and seven other books. He doesn’t get along with a lot of people and he lives in Chicago. His latest novel, Rontel, is co-published by Electric Literature (eBook) and Lazy Fascist Press (print).

Scott McClanahan is the author of The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. I, Crapalachia, and Hill William. He lives in West Virginia.

Cameron Pierce is the author of eight books, most recently Die You Doughnut Bastards, and also the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

J. David Osborne is the author of Low Down Death Right Easy and By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends. He lives with his wife and dog in Norman, Oklahoma.

Spencer Madsen runs Sorry House and is also the author of the “greatest cat poem ever” according to The Huffington Post. He lives in New York.

Kirsten Alene is the author of Unicorn Battle Squad and Love in the Time of Dinosaurs. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Click here to order Colony Collapse.

And don’t forget our other Valentine’s Day releases: Rontel by Sam Pink and The Humble Assessment by Kris Saknussemm.

RONTEL BY SAM PINK

We now enter: Total Isolation

Rontel is the story of one man’s odyssey through Chicago. Follow him as he attempts to go to his last day of work. Follow him through the subway as he considers stealing chips from a dancing baby. Find him being threatened by a homeless man holding board games. Take his hand as he considers building a hydraulic cocoon for his cat out of a complimentary duffel bag. Walk the streets of Uptown as a cop-killer takes hostages to the roof of an apartment building. Meet his friends. Just kidding! Follow him to his neighbor’s apartment where he gets paid in pumpkin pie to watch a baby. Follow him through through the dull pains of never quite becoming an adult. Sit back, laugh, smile, hold your breath, because not even he knows how it ends.

“Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink’s Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.” – Joe Meno

Click here to order RONTEL.

Click here to order the e-book, available from Electric Literature.

Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.

Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone’s got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You’re from this town.

Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She’s just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She’s this town’s heroic final girl, their virgin angel.

Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she’s not the only one who knows the rules of the game.

When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it’s not just a fight for survival-it’s a fight to become The Last Final Girl.

Click here to order The Last Final Girl for the Kindle.

Praise for Chick Bassist:

“Chick Bassist is utterly savage. Lockhart’s style waxes poetic as a modern Beat giving us a glimpse into Rock & Roll hell.” – Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Occultation and The Croning

“Ross Lockhart knows something about those who people the world of Rock and Roll. In CHICK BASSIST, he provides an intimate and at times truly disturbing look at the pains and pleasures, the aspirations and triumphs, the simple failings as well as the epic downfalls of those who climb the stage with electric instruments and high-voltage attitude. I highly recommend this great Rock novel.” – Alan M. Clark, author of A Parliament of Crows

“A stunningly daring performance…” – Zachary Jernigan, author of No Return

“Could be the ultimate rock novel.” – M.P. Johnson

Click here to order Chick Bassist for your Kindle.

Click here to order the paperback.

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Rontel is due out on Valentine’s Day 2013. Lazy Fascist will publish the paperback while Electric Literature releases the digital edition. We’re pretty damn ecstatic about this partnership.

Look for Lazy Fascist at AWP in Boston (March 2013), pimping Rontel and our two other early spring releases, Colony Collapse by J.A. Tyler and The Humble Assessment by Kris Saknussemm.