July 2012
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“I hate white Christmas lights, she said. They’re like Michael Bolton...”
– Just a teaser from Jeanne Thornton’s debut novel, The Dream of Doctor Bantam (Oct), which Eileen Myles hails as “Lush and trashy…all punk heart, messily thudding.” Take part in our Goodreads giveaway and you could win one of twenty free galleys…
OR author Raja Shehadeh in the NYT: 'A Palestinian... →
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OR Books Discovers New Planet
New York, July 13, for immediate release:
In yet another first for independent publishing, OR Books has established a Department of Interplanetary Exploration. Attached is documentation of the spectacular results of the department’s first efforts, the discovery of a new planet the team has modestly named “Planet OR.”
“We categorically deny, as some in publishing would...
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Zombie publishers
“Everyone has a good time. The motto is: ‘The purpose of literature is to fuck you up!’ I don’t think you can call yourself part of the literary underground and not be into this show right now, just like I don’t think you can be part of the literary underground and not be reading every book published by Lisa Marie Basile’s ‘Patasola Press’ and O/R Books.”...
