Cover design by Ryan W. Bradley

Word Riot Press has two fantastic short story collections lined up for late 2010: Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young and Baby & other stories by Paula Bomer. Paula’s book is now available for pre-order. My one-line pitch on Paula’s collection is that these stories are what happens when Mary Gaitskill characters get married and have kids. Awesome, subversive stuff.

The cover price is $15.95, but we’re selling pre-orders for $12.

Here’s what very important literary folk have to say:

“Words like ‘tough’ and ‘honest’ don’t quite do justice to the fiction of Paula Bomer. These stories bleed, yes, but that’s because they brawl. The real housewives of Bomerworld break themselves and break your heart and yet never completely lose their soulful dignity.”
–Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

“I love that Paula Bomer writes her characters into difficult situations and does terrible things to them. These stories contain a rare emotional honesty and brutality.”
–Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody

“I know I’m reading something really great when I have to stop and put the book down and think for a while before I can pick it up again. This is rare. It also happened at least twice per story in Paula Bomer’s excellent collection, Baby. Buy it, read it, put it down while you admire her skill and charm and honesty, and then pick it back up and continue reading. You might want to leave a page unread, just so it won’t be completely over, at least until she publishes her next collection.”
–Mary Miller, author of Big World.