Chekhov's Mistress
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A Free book from Soft Skull
By way of building a little buzz in advance of the publication of our brilliant and, shockingly, not-widely-read cult author David Ohle, a free ad-supported eBook:
Advance orders for The Pisstown Chaos were so low last year, I canceled the original May 2007 publication, and tried again, this time for July 2008. And to pull out more stops, this preview eBook.
Here’s what folks had to say about his previous installment:
“…if—as was provocatively asserted in Don DeLillo’s Mao II—the terrorist has hijacked the novelist’s role within our culture, is it then somehow supercilious of me to report that Ohle has written a novel that will behead his readers? … I’d like to propose that getting your head lopped off by Ohle’s fiction is a strange and unforgettable experience….In The Age of Sinatra, Ohle has seemingly concocted some sort of covert Oulipian recipe regarding the fantastic versus realism….Think The Phantom Tollbooth in a Technicolor, head-on collision with the Book of Job….American readers should take note of this insurgent fiction writer, David Ohle, who flays the human condition to singular, hallucinatory effect.”—Village Voice, Best Books of 2004…
And don’t you love a publisher that isn’t afraid to say “Advance orders… were so low last year” Of course only someone who really believes in the books he publishes would say that, I think.
One note – I didn’t download the book. WOWIO, the service Soft Skull is using for the downloads doesn’t allow you to register for their free books unless you have an email address other than gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc. or use a credit card for your free book or scan your drivers license. Hello? I’ll wait for that policy to change, as it surely will.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: March 27, 2008
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