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Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
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Thrilled to see one of Monday's Franklin Park Reading Series stars, Sam Munson, and his amazing @twodollarradio.bsky.social novel The Sofa on @reactorsff.bsky.social's great roundup of November horror releases!
October may have ended, but the horror books shall continue until scares improves. From a Filipino Gothic to Appalachian folklore, here's all the new horror books of November 2025!
All the New Horror Books Arriving in November 2025 - Reactor
This November, explore the surreal horror found in a sofa, check into a haunted and hungry house, and face down a giant salamander the drives people mad…
reactormag.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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En el suplemento cultural “Laberinto” del diario “Milenio” publico un ensayo dedicado a los debuts novelísticos de dos extraordinarios autores editados por @twodollarradio.bsky.social: el estadounidense David Connerley Nahm y el británico Issa Quincy: bit.ly/47kuxSf.
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Found the cutest little indie bookstore/ brunch bar this weekend.

And so neat: they give you a passport if you want to visit them all.

@twodollarradio.bsky.social 📚💙
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New from our horror issue:

On the reissue of her cult classic THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS, out now via @twodollarradio.bsky.social, Grace Krilanovich talks w/ Mike Corrao 💥

🎨 @nicolerifkin.bsky.social

southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
The Spectacle Of | An Interview with Grace Krilanovich
By Mike Corrao
southwestreview.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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LA people: this Wednesday 10/22 I’ll be reading at Skylight Books with the amazing Karolina Waclawiak and Katya Apekina! @twodollarradio.bsky.social party!
www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I bought this while we were in Columbus & I still need to read it! bsky.app/profile/joie...
@twodollarradio.bsky.social was so welcoming & friendly & such a cool space!
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A new piece from @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social! “How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is? … Issa Quincy’s debut novel, Absence, takes up these questions.” www.full-stop.net/2025/09/17/r...
Absence — Issa Quincy
How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?
www.full-stop.net
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“This morning, I found a pigeon’s head on my morning walk, and it stayed with me all day. It was deeply tragic, a bit pathetic and very beautiful, that’s what I’m usually after.”

Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED is out 9/16!

🪩 @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son (
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...
September 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“This morning, I found a pigeon’s head on my morning walk, and it stayed with me all day. It was deeply tragic, a bit pathetic and very beautiful, that’s what I’m usually after.”

Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED is out 9/16!

🪩 @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…
lithub.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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For The Brooklyn Rail, Dan Kubis calls Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED “a wildly imaginative, deeply intransigent novel"

@dankubis.bsky.social 🔗 brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.
brooklynrail.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🪩✨ Issa Quincy upcoming EVENTS:

Fri, September 5 — Washington, DC // 7pm
@ Kramers w/ McKinley Green

Tues, September 9 — Providence, RI // 7pm
@ Riffraff w/ Nikki Shaner-Bradford

Sun, September 21 — Brooklyn, NY
@ Brooklyn Book Festival
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Here's my review of Katharina Volckmer's CALLS MAY BE RECORDED. Happy for thoughts if you've read it. This is not like most novels. @twodollarradio.bsky.social brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.
brooklynrail.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For The Brooklyn Rail, Dan Kubis calls Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED “a wildly imaginative, deeply intransigent novel"

@dankubis.bsky.social 🔗 brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.
brooklynrail.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🌀THE SOFA is coming Nov. 11 🌀

“ A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath."
—Michael Clune, author of Pan

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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📞 answer the call 💫

Katharina Volckmer’s mordantly hilarious workplace satire, CALLS MAY BE RECORDED, officially hits shelves in just under 3 weeks (Sept. 16)!! Final copies look (and feel) glorious 💫

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August 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🪩✨ Issa Quincy upcoming EVENTS:

Fri, September 5 — Washington, DC // 7pm
@ Kramers w/ McKinley Green

Tues, September 9 — Providence, RI // 7pm
@ Riffraff w/ Nikki Shaner-Bradford

Sun, September 21 — Brooklyn, NY
@ Brooklyn Book Festival
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📞 answer the call 💫

Katharina Volckmer’s mordantly hilarious workplace satire, CALLS MAY BE RECORDED, officially hits shelves in just under 3 weeks (Sept. 16)!! Final copies look (and feel) glorious 💫

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/cal...
August 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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“Volckmer’s prose is electric, and as she skillfully unearths moments of tenderness, even ecstasy, amid the sweat and stench of abjection, she ensures this brief book lingers past its pages. A raucous, gutting workplace novel.” —Kirkus Reviews

out Sept. 16 💫

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
CALLS MAY BE RECORDED | Kirkus Reviews
An employee at a travel-agency call center scrapes together moments of hilarity and strange intimacy into a life he can stand, somewhat.
www.kirkusreviews.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🌀THE SOFA is coming Nov. 11 🌀

“ A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath."
—Michael Clune, author of Pan

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Check out the books that inspired Issa Quincy, author of ABSENCE (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬)
debutiful.net/2025/07/31/m...
July 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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You call it "lacking of plot." I call it "excluding the unnecessary."
7 Books That Break the Confines of Plot - Electric Literature
Calling these books “plotless” ignores their radical storytelling
buff.ly
July 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything"

Read Issa Quincy’s essay on ABSENCE for @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/fail-more-fa...
Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything
My debut novel, Absence, came out of failure. Many months of failure. For nearly a year before I began work on it, I was working on another novel. It was to be longer, more expansive, more determi…
lithub.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM