July 8, 2010
What does 100% indie lit mean on the internet?
Pilot Books is currently undertaking major online shopping renovations. This summer we hope to re-launch with a massive catalog of small press and indie lit.
What do you think about that?
Does a rigorously indie bookstore make sense online? If you seek out small press, do you like going to tens or hundreds of different publisher websites? Or would you like to see your kind of reading collected and curated in one place? What if you knew publishers and authors were on board, too?
Comments are welcome. Emails are welcome. A bientot.
March 7, 2010
Copenhagen
by Katrine Marie Guldager (Book Thug, 2009, Translated from the Danish by P.K. Brask)
Eleven short stories that twist geographically, socially, restlessly, and perspicaciously through the city. Often mundane, then suddenly tragic, related with a matter-of-factness that is also forgiving. You can read all 82 pages in one sitting, which for that reason (and the fragility of the characters and also the unassailable whiteness of Copenhagen) makes me want to compare the book to a stack of rice cakes. In a good way. I like rice cakes. Or else I wouldn’t be recommending the book.
$20
February 21, 2010
Boons & The Camp
by David Ohle (Calamari, 2009)
Double feature. Two Ohle novellas in one.
$12
Hello Failure
by Kristen Kosmas (Ugly Duckling, 2009)
I’m no drama critic, but what I love about the playwright Eugène Ionesco I also love about Kristen Kosmas’ Hello Failure. (Satire and wit without embitterment.) But George Hunka says it better:
“Kristen Kosmas is one of the most exciting and accomplished new voices in the American theater… Her story of seven submariners’ wives marries Chekhovian realism to a language reminiscent of Gertrude Stein for one of the best new plays of the season.”
$12
The Difficult Farm
by Heather Christle (Octopus, 2009)
When is too much honesty not enough?
$12