The rEprint Series presents:
Mud Luscious Press
Available Titles:
- I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur
- The Hieroglyphics
- Grim Tales
- When All Our Days Are Numbered
- An Island of Fifty
- How the Days of Love & Diphtheria
- Meat Is All
I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur
Mathias Svalina
Release Date: July 17, 2012
eBook Price: $6.99
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
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
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
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
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
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
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