Tired of making small talk with half-drunk publishers about your project while at AWP? Bummed out from being at home and trying to live vicariously through BookTwitter? Kick back and enjoy these Tits in your ears from the Whiskey Tit Audiobook Collection.
Have a listen and if you’re ready to buy or pre-order, simply point your phone’s camera at the QR code beneath the title you like and snag it!
RAGE IS A WOLF by kt Mather
Narrated by the author
Sixteen-year-old Elaine Archer thinks the Earth might really be screwed. And she’s pretty sure sitting in a classroom memorizing Civil War battle dates isn’t gonna save it.
Desperate to do something meaningful, but not sure it will do any good, Elaine talks her moms into letting her drop out of school to write a novel. Spending her days circling Chicago in search of her story, she discovers a universe of people and ideas she’d never have encountered behind the doors of D.B. High. As her understanding of the complexity of the world and relationships deepens, so does her fear that she might not have what it takes to make any difference at all.
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HOUSE OF APOLLO by Maxwell Olin Massa
Narrated by Ari Fliakos
If you could know exactly how and when calamity would strike, would you want to? And more importantly, would you tell your insurance company? What if it was something smaller, like the next time you were going to get a bad case of athlete’s foot… would you let them know then?
In House of Apollo, they already know. The actuaries have won: Big Data predicts it all. At Longshot Insurance, it’s been years since the last claim, and HR has happily eliminated every department but Marketing. But fate cannot be so easily conquered, and when a priest in this temple of rationality meets his Dionysian match, comic chaos ensues.
Like a thought experiment where Orwell drinks with Bukowski and Mervyn Peake transcribes, this novel of ideas is anything but predictable.
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NSFW by David Scott Hay
Narrated by Brian Hill
Buy paperback — Audiobook coming 2023
Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for health benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus.
As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their coping mechanisms expand to include office sex, drugs, and a jellyfish.
But when copium is no longer an option, @Sa>ag3 & @Jun1p3r turn to a more bizarre form of therapy: intimacy.
Meanwhile a stream of ominous warning videos keeps popping up… COMING SOON… hinting at an event that will alter the American landscape.
The clock starts now.
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TUMBLEWEED by Svetlana Lavochkina
Performed by the author with music Peter Bauer
Preorder paperback, releasing summer 2023
“I think Tumbleweed was this unexpected project dictated to me. It’s very sarcastic, humorous, extravagant, exuberant. But it’s also an argument for only doing what you want, not what other people want. We all want to be read and heard, but paying attention to other people’s wishes is useless. You should only write what you have a deep desire to write. The paradoxical thing is I never considered myself to be a poet. I’ve been declaring it for 10 years. This just shows you should always keep an open mind. Of course, it’s very difficult to make a narrative with verse, but then the rewards you have from it are immense.” — Svetlana Lavochkina
NOTE: 100% of publisher profits from sales of our literature by Ukrainian authors will be donated to Ukrainian relief.
THE DROWNED WOMAN by Abigail Stewart
Narrated by Miette Gillette
Buy paperback — Audiobook coming Summer 2023
Jeanette, a graduate student on scholarship and majoring in art history, arrives on the West Coast intending to be embraced by endless sunshine. She finds comfort in her studies and in her new apartment, drinking cheap Scotch and enjoying casual hookups.
From her youth slowly emerges a many-veiled seductive dance that begins in the carnal and veers toward the reluctantly domestic, before ultimately descending, as they do, into the maternal. Fueled by anger alone, Jeanette plies her own orbit, determined to reclaim her life.
With nods to the psychoanalytic works of Louise Bourgeois, The Drowned Woman explores the collision of the tender and the violent, and the brand of survival instincts unique to women artists.
DONKEY by Joey Truman
Narrated by Shane Foote
Order serial by mail — Audiobook coming Summer 2023
Don’t get me wrong, but work is a four letter word.
No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it is unavoidable.
In his new serial writing project, Donkey, Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way 86out.
An intense journey of self-reflection and inertia.