I bet you thought we’d disappeared forever? Allen Saunders said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” And so it did. There was a heinous president, and a global pandemic, and our distributor went bankrupt, and no one could find toilet paper so Americans started hording bidets like they were the next Beanie Babies, or Tulips, or land plots on the Salton Sea, or Bitcoin. We got a bit overwhelmed. We got married. We moved to separate states. That useless president got elected, AGAIN. Books went out of print. The whole thing fell apart.

And yet, until they chase us out of the country we’re still here, and there’s still brilliant work to share with the world even if we have to change the way we go about it.

First, we slipped a book under the radar a year or two ago. Long Autumn by Joshua C. Gaines is a story about a man and his futuristic Furby traveling the Hudson River Valley during an Eco-Dystopian Future on a search for his lost daughter. It is available here!

Second, we have a new book of poetry coming out from a poet we’re very excited about, Tommy Gaffney. His book of narrative poems, Whiskey Days, chronicles the truth and fiction of his life in the suburb adjacents of Louisville Kentucky and the pre-Portlandia days of Portland Oregon. It’s better than great–it’s fucked up, and you should read it but not out loud to your kids. You can find it here and wherever we’re reading tonight in Portland, Oregon.

Lastly, we’ll be at AWP in Los Angeles in a few days. Come find our table at the book fair, buy a book, and get a free shot of bourbon! (Unless you’re under 21 in which case, you’re just going to have to smuggle that stuff in on your own like all the rest of us did.)