Dzanc rEprint Series

The Dzanc Books rEprint Series is dedicated to publishing great works of contemporary literature that are deserving and clearly will benefit from having their work appear in electronic form. Our efforts include works that have recently gone out of print, books in print that have yet to be converted to e-form, as well as titles where the author holds the eBook rights and is looking for a publishing partner for the electronic version of their book. Starting in Summer 2011, these works will be made available by Dzanc to the reading public in the form of eBooks compatible with all currently available eBook platforms, distributed both directly from Dzanc and through eBook resellers.

This series originates out of a belief that many of these titles did not have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential audiences in the time of their original publication, and that a second chance for achieving a wider readership is long overdue. By bringing them back into print in widely-available electronic formats, Dzanc hope to restart the critical conversations around these books, and to get them into the hands of the enthusiastic readers they each deserve. Just as the eBook revoluation has put an always-connected bookstore in the hands of every participating reader, we believe that our rEprint series is an important and innovative part of ensuring that bookstore's virtual shelves are stocked with beautiful editions of these titles, all among the very best books of the preceding decades.

For a full list of upcoming titles, please click here.

The rEprint Series presents:
Mud Luscious Press

 

Available Titles:

 

I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur

Mathias Svalina

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"In this joyful critique of a Randian, post-industrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable & the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie & disaffection, where we are daily beset by 'a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.' Svalina refuses this numbness & offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place." —Gabriel Gudding  

"This is a subversive & necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, & failure. I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur is poignant & brilliant; it's worth the investment." —Christian Hawkey

 

The Hieroglyphics

Michael Stewart

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"In The Hieroglyphics, a novel(la) in prose poems, Michael Stewart tackles nothing less than a radical revision of creation myths that comments darkly on the ancient stories we have received & the future we may be facing. Stewart's language is spare & haunting, the allusions resonating, in this work that reminds us how pale are the achievements of men." —Wendy Barker 

"A more certain world does not make for a less terrifying one in Michael Stewart's astonishing & grave book of wisdoms & codes & laws & rites & rituals & charms. Gather: A sparrow is burning. Gather: There is news of the soul." —Carole Maso 

 

Grim Tales

Norman Lock

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"This is book as turbulence disrupting the smooth sea, as anti-matter breaking bonds that had never before been broken. Throughout, the book defies the physics and metaphysics of our known world even as it pretends to a reaching backward, to drawing forth these tales from some shared past, dissembling not to deceive but to aggress us anew. See the quotation marks which suggest some unavailable subtext but which quote nothing but Lock's own imagination, or else that of his arranging characters, his possible narrator, and you see the layers of interpretation he is willing to risk so as to prevent any easy explanation, any trite truth too cleverly left unconcealed. Better always that the work be mysterious, that the mystery be allowed to work upon us." —Matt Bell

"Norman Lock's Grim Tales is a mythological catalog of the peculiar, a string of strange, often murderous urban myths. It comes on fast & dirty, wasting no time in lunging at your throat…Grim Tales is populated end to end with the magical & the bizarre: shape-shifting, witchery, underwater cities, indoor rain, beds that contain oceans, murderous objects, all manner of disappearance. Men lose their faces to mirrors, women are smothered by their hair, clouds settle over cities & suck them up…& in the midst of all this looming, Lock has an incredible ability to render compelling imagery & demeanor in minute, super-compressed bursts. Single lines resound in the mind. In the same way that it's hard to stop staring at the internet's seemingly endless array of weird memes & video databases, Lock's words are both engrossing & slightly haunted. One could spend forever worming through these magicked words, their worlds." —Blake Butler 

 

When All Our Days Are Numbered

Sasha Fletcher

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"My advice: those who are to read Sasha Fletcher's delightful enjoinder When All Our Days Are Numbered should go into an empty house of an afternoon, shut themselves in a backroom closet on a low shelf, & read straight through without stopping." —Jesse Ball
"Fletcher belongs to a new generation of writers who dare to risk language & imagination in equal measure. Every sharp line cuts & curls & the result is a world both familiar & exotic. This novella is part concept album, part epic poem, part twisted fable. A dream & a flood." —Robert Lopez
"Sasha Fletcher, with his dream catastrophes & immense loves, can wand us into a new world. Here is a story that glistens." —Deb Olin Unferth

 

An Island of Fifty

Ben Brooks

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"An Island of Fifty is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, & flame. Old & stale literature won't know what just hit. This is something new masking itself in the old & I'm so so so excited." —Shane Jones
"Ben Brooks is popping quarks with An Island of Fifty, spilling new flavors of literature on the swampy bookstacks of old. Call it new political, new ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism, or even new imaginary creationism. This book builds up to tear down & tears down to build up. Desire as melancholia, progress as slippage, & wanting for wanting's sake. The floodgates crumble. I relish the shape of this new wordspace, the play of noise & whisper, the unfamiliar voices, & the ache of nihilism paradoxically juxtaposed with the gleam of hopeful invention." —Christopher Higgs

 

How the Days of Love & Diphtheria

Robert Kloss

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"Love & Diphtheria, yes: here Kloss does creation & destruction as it must be: in the same breath, a magnificent, unblinking act of remembrance & retribution, aimed at we who despite the skinless horses and burning bears would still go on, would deign to say anything at all with all this fire bursting out of people and the weird ground, and which from also comes a light." —Blake Butler
"Hell of a little monster, and one giant hell of a book." —Specter Magazine
"At its heart this is a gorgeous book about a simple and universal idea: the decay and destruction of love, and the weird thing that lingers on in its place. It is a book with a broken heart. And to read it is to break your own, in all the ways that pain equals love equals endings." —Big Other

 

Meat Is All

Andrew Borgstrom

Release Date: July 17, 2012

eBook Price: $6.99

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PRAISE

"Yikey yow wow wow—this what is it is AWESOME. Really a beautiful piece of art. Distinctive and 'far-out' but still fetching and readable." —Adam Robinson

"Meat Is All assaults the reader with a smattering of language constructions that are occasionally playful, usually clever, oftentimes disturbing, and always perception-blowing. Defying classification, the book is a masterful piece of conceptual art." —Outsider Writers Collective

"It's an ambitious work, both emotionally and creatively. A thoroughly enjoyable work from a young, up and coming independent writer." —LitStack

"Borgstrom's verbal recreation, which empowers calibrated repetition and reminds of words' resourcefulness—multiple dictionary definitions and pliable parts of speech—is never reckless. Each 3-segmented page-long section has a gristle-sticky cohesiveness." —Pank