Corona\Samizdat Press
@coronasamizdat.bsky.social
A non-profit literary press, est'd in 2020 & based in Slovenia.
We specialize in inexpensive, quality pocket books.
Editor: @rickharsch.bsky.social
IG: @coronasamizdatbooks
Izola, Slovenia
https://coronasamizdat.com
We specialize in inexpensive, quality pocket books.
Editor: @rickharsch.bsky.social
IG: @coronasamizdatbooks
Izola, Slovenia
https://coronasamizdat.com
Also arriving in June, 2021 was our 20th book— the beautiful Wandering Stone, The Streets of Old Izola by @rickharsch.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Also arriving in June, 2021 was our 20th book— the beautiful Wandering Stone, The Streets of Old Izola by @rickharsch.bsky.social
On June 3rd, 2021, we welcomed Jeff Bursey's second book, a story collection entitled: an impalpable certain rest.
December 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
On June 3rd, 2021, we welcomed Jeff Bursey's second book, a story collection entitled: an impalpable certain rest.
On May 31st, 2021, we published our second Canadian novel, @wdclarke.bsky.social 's She Sang to Them, She Sang
December 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM
On May 31st, 2021, we published our second Canadian novel, @wdclarke.bsky.social 's She Sang to Them, She Sang
On May 17th, 2021 we released our 17th book, Phillip Freedenberg's America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots—easily our bestseller!
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
On May 17th, 2021 we released our 17th book, Phillip Freedenberg's America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots—easily our bestseller!
On April 7, 2021 we republished a third out-of-print Chandler Brossard, The Wolf Howls at My Door, bearing the same cover as the 1992 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social hardcover edition.
December 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
On April 7, 2021 we republished a third out-of-print Chandler Brossard, The Wolf Howls at My Door, bearing the same cover as the 1992 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social hardcover edition.
March 2, 2021 brought us our 15th book, the conclusion to Rick Harsch (et al)'s "anthological novel,"
The Assassination of Olaf Palme, Vol. 2
The Assassination of Olaf Palme, Vol. 2
December 12, 2024 at 5:12 PM
March 2, 2021 brought us our 15th book, the conclusion to Rick Harsch (et al)'s "anthological novel,"
The Assassination of Olaf Palme, Vol. 2
The Assassination of Olaf Palme, Vol. 2
Feb 2021 brought us Rick Harsch's Circumnavigation Through Maritime History, featuring "centuries of commerce & economic exploitation, warfare, piracy, exploration, colonialism, empire, fall of empire, relentless blunder & plunder, glory, utter failure, abject depravity...[1/2]
December 5, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Feb 2021 brought us Rick Harsch's Circumnavigation Through Maritime History, featuring "centuries of commerce & economic exploitation, warfare, piracy, exploration, colonialism, empire, fall of empire, relentless blunder & plunder, glory, utter failure, abject depravity...[1/2]
Our first book of 2021, and our 13th book, was Tendrilopolis, an erotic epistolary novel by pseudonymous European author Vesna Radić.
December 2, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Our first book of 2021, and our 13th book, was Tendrilopolis, an erotic epistolary novel by pseudonymous European author Vesna Radić.
Here's a couple links for those of you new to Chandler Brossard, including our Chief Editor's YT video on Wake Up. We're Almost There, and an interview with Steven Moore on @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social 's site!
www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/08/02/a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bb...
www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/08/02/a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bb...
November 25, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Here's a couple links for those of you new to Chandler Brossard, including our Chief Editor's YT video on Wake Up. We're Almost There, and an interview with Steven Moore on @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social 's site!
www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/08/02/a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bb...
www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/08/02/a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bb...
50 years after its initial publication, Chandler Brossard's Wake Up. We're Almost There became our 12th book (and 2nd Brossard) on 26 November, 2020—and features a superb new cover by Zachary Tanner, our resident graphic and print genius.
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM
50 years after its initial publication, Chandler Brossard's Wake Up. We're Almost There became our 12th book (and 2nd Brossard) on 26 November, 2020—and features a superb new cover by Zachary Tanner, our resident graphic and print genius.
[2/2] "... a political thriller that dissects the influence of the Reagan years, post WWII fascism, & collusions of various hypocrisies, & foul, oft deadly behaviours on the part of representatives of chimeras of good on the pursuit of life on the globe"
November 24, 2024 at 1:38 PM
[2/2] "... a political thriller that dissects the influence of the Reagan years, post WWII fascism, & collusions of various hypocrisies, & foul, oft deadly behaviours on the part of representatives of chimeras of good on the pursuit of life on the globe"
Nov., 2020, brought the first of a two-volume "anthological novel conceived and largely written by Rick Harsch, that includes, generally seamlessly, the work of at least 70 other writers, [and which] is an examination of the nature of autobiographical fiction... [1/2]
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Nov., 2020, brought the first of a two-volume "anthological novel conceived and largely written by Rick Harsch, that includes, generally seamlessly, the work of at least 70 other writers, [and which] is an examination of the nature of autobiographical fiction... [1/2]
If you are unfamiliar with Chandler Brossard, check him out here in interview with the great Steven Moore:
web.archive.org/web/20120902...
web.archive.org/web/20120902...
November 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM
If you are unfamiliar with Chandler Brossard, check him out here in interview with the great Steven Moore:
web.archive.org/web/20120902...
web.archive.org/web/20120902...
Our final book of October, 2020 was the first of our reprints of three novels by Chandler Brossard (1922-93), an important experimental post-war American novelist. We are honored to be given the opportunity to republish Raging Joys and Sublime Variations (1981)!
November 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Our final book of October, 2020 was the first of our reprints of three novels by Chandler Brossard (1922-93), an important experimental post-war American novelist. We are honored to be given the opportunity to republish Raging Joys and Sublime Variations (1981)!
Reviewer Christopher Robinson had this to say about the first novella in David Vardeman's flipbook, April is the Cruellest Month/Suddenly this Summer:
November 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Reviewer Christopher Robinson had this to say about the first novella in David Vardeman's flipbook, April is the Cruellest Month/Suddenly this Summer:
Also published in October of 2020 was our second book by David Vardeman—a flip book! Suddenly This Summer, and April Is the Cruelest Month, the former a dark mystery and the latter a dark farce...
November 21, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Also published in October of 2020 was our second book by David Vardeman—a flip book! Suddenly This Summer, and April Is the Cruelest Month, the former a dark mystery and the latter a dark farce...
Reviewer L.S. Popovich had this to say about Bori Praper's Cynicism Management, our 8th book of 2020 (and 8th book!):
November 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Reviewer L.S. Popovich had this to say about Bori Praper's Cynicism Management, our 8th book of 2020 (and 8th book!):
In Oct. 2020, we published our 1st Slovenian novel, Cynicism Management by Bori Praper, a satire which depicts "21st century humans being manipulated by opaque forces, and...attempting to avoid senseless annihilation. It is not history, but neither, unfortunately, is it fantasy."
November 20, 2024 at 11:43 AM
In Oct. 2020, we published our 1st Slovenian novel, Cynicism Management by Bori Praper, a satire which depicts "21st century humans being manipulated by opaque forces, and...attempting to avoid senseless annihilation. It is not history, but neither, unfortunately, is it fantasy."
The Driftless noveles were originally published by @steerforthpress.bsky.social in 1997, 98, & 02. "Early Harsch is uncompromising in its individuality, pay[ing] homage to some aspects of the noir genre in both literature & film but creates a twisted MainStreet all his own." —David Vardeman.
November 19, 2024 at 12:17 PM
The Driftless noveles were originally published by @steerforthpress.bsky.social in 1997, 98, & 02. "Early Harsch is uncompromising in its individuality, pay[ing] homage to some aspects of the noir genre in both literature & film but creates a twisted MainStreet all his own." —David Vardeman.
Oops! Backtracking a wee bit, to July 9, 2020, we see the republication, in pocket omnibus format, of
@rickharsch.bsky.social 's first three novels, under the heading "The Driftless Trilogy"
@rickharsch.bsky.social 's first three novels, under the heading "The Driftless Trilogy"
November 19, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Oops! Backtracking a wee bit, to July 9, 2020, we see the republication, in pocket omnibus format, of
@rickharsch.bsky.social 's first three novels, under the heading "The Driftless Trilogy"
@rickharsch.bsky.social 's first three novels, under the heading "The Driftless Trilogy"
On Sept 16, 2020, we published Canadian novelist/critic Jeff Bursey's latest exploratory fiction, "a fill-in-the-blanks novel mercifully free from characters to warm to ... featur[ing] voice that veers from mean to genial as it explores whatever topics come to mind..."
November 18, 2024 at 11:41 AM
On Sept 16, 2020, we published Canadian novelist/critic Jeff Bursey's latest exploratory fiction, "a fill-in-the-blanks novel mercifully free from characters to warm to ... featur[ing] voice that veers from mean to genial as it explores whatever topics come to mind..."
On Skulls of Istria by @rickharsch.bsky.social from Chris Via's Afterword:
November 17, 2024 at 12:55 PM
On Skulls of Istria by @rickharsch.bsky.social from Chris Via's Afterword:
In June and August of 2020, Rick republished two more of his own in pocket format, with Skulls of Istria being rescued from a failed American press, and Arjun and the Good Snake having first been published by another press in Slovenia.
November 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM
In June and August of 2020, Rick republished two more of his own in pocket format, with Skulls of Istria being rescued from a failed American press, and Arjun and the Good Snake having first been published by another press in Slovenia.
Hey folks, another c\s-er, @sparewords.bsky.social poet Mark A. Douglas and author of Buy One Get One Free has just joined us on Bsky...please welcome him here!
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November 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Hey folks, another c\s-er, @sparewords.bsky.social poet Mark A. Douglas and author of Buy One Get One Free has just joined us on Bsky...please welcome him here!
coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...
coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...
June 4th, 2020 brought our first of several by the great David Vardeman (and our very first pocket book!), from whom you can expect "endless surprises...insights, petty cruelties, odd moments of tenderness--which in this world are indeed odd, and not likely to last."
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 AM
June 4th, 2020 brought our first of several by the great David Vardeman (and our very first pocket book!), from whom you can expect "endless surprises...insights, petty cruelties, odd moments of tenderness--which in this world are indeed odd, and not likely to last."