Termite Parade by Mohr; The Orange Eats Creeps by Krilanovich (both published by Two Dollar Radio)

Joshua Mohr, whose last novel (Some Things That Meant the World to Me) was a staff favorite, and Grace Krilanovich, whose debut novel (The Orange Eats Creeps) is the only one to be excerpted twice in Black Clock, will read from and sign their new novels!

Praise for Termite Parade:
"The book is similar to Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment': the most crucial action serves as a portal to and wellspring for the various psychologies of its characters. But Mohr's storytelling is so absorbing that Termite Parade does not read like an analytical rumination; if he is examining the very nature of these characters under a microscope, he at least lets the specimens speak for themselves." --San Francisco Chronicle

Praise for The Orange Eats Creeps:
"A 'vampire' novel as Celine might have written, with dashes of Blake and Burroughs: hallucinatory, poetic, passionate, excessive, sexually charged, hardcore in all the best senses of the word. Twilight this is not." --Steve Erickson

Grace Krilanovich has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a finalist for the Starcherone Prize. Her first book, The Orange Eats Creeps, is the only novel to be excerpted twice in Black Clock.

Termite Parade (Paperback)

By Joshua Mohr

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780982015162
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Published: Two Dollar Radio, 7/2010

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"Termite Parade" is the second novel from "San Francisco Chronicle" best-selling author Joshua Mohr. It is a mature look at the honest side of human interaction. Derek drops his black-out drunk and verbally abusive girlfriend Mired down a flight of stairs in their apartment building on purpose, and then calls his estranged twin brother Frank to help clean up the mess.  Mired thinks she fell and blames herself; Frank knows better; Derek, ravaged with guilt, plays along before ditching town altogether.  "Termite Parade" examines how Derek, Mired, and Frank cope with the incident, and, more deeply, the concepts of how we love one another; whether individuals are capable of change or whether we simply are who we are; and how capable we are, despite being an extremely intelligent and evolved species, of being savage animals.

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The Orange Eats Creeps (Paperback)

By Grace Krilanovich, Steve Erickson

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780982015186
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Published: Two Dollar Radio, 9/2010

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It's the '90s Pacific Northwest refracted through a dark mirror, where meth and madness hash it out in the woods. . . . A band of hobo vampire junkies roam the blighted landscape--trashing supermarket breakrooms, praying to the altar of Poison Idea and GG Allin at basement rock shows, crashing senior center pancake breakfasts--locked in the thrall of Robitussin trips and their own wild dreams. A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along "The Highway That Eats People," stalked by a conflation of "Twin Peaks"' "Bob" and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl. With a scathing voice and penetrating delivery, Grace Krilanovich's "The Orange Eats Creeps" is one of the most ferocious debut novels in memory.

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Some Things That Meant the World to Me (Paperback)

By Joshua Mohr

$15.50

ISBN-13: 9780982015117
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Two Dollar Radio, 6/2009

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Following a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, "Some Things That Meant the World to Me" is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic, and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American literature. When Rhonda was a child -- abandoned and ignored by his mother; abused and misguided by his mother's boyfriend -- he imagined the rooms of his home drifting apart from one another like separating continents. Years later, after an embarassing episode as an adult, Rhonda's inner-child appears, leading him to a trapdoor in the bottom of a dumpster behind a taqueria that will force him to finally confront his troubled past. In the spirit of "Cruddy" and "Hairstyles of the Damned," Joshua Mohr has created a remarkable and unforgettable character in this charmingly poetic and maturely crafted first novel.

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