Friday, July 31, 2026

e-singles

Frade Killed Ellen, Turquoise Truck, and The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity are longer short stories available as stand-alone e-books at Amazon, Apple, Smashwords, and other locations. Because they're "sold separately" and appear as electronic books, I italicized these titles, but because they're short stories and not novels or even novellas, we could argue quotation marks are more appropriate for these titles.

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Joker, Joker, Deuce

Only July 30, The novelist-in-residence at L.U.S.K. finished Paul Beatty's Joker, Joker, Deuce.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Avee Chaudhuri's "Problem Women, Problem Men"

"He sat down from his oration and had another scotch whiskey. We had furnished him with a bottle of Cutty Sark, which I think put him in mind of ships, barges, indentured labor, uneven trades, doomed marriages perhaps. He spent several minutes staring at the bottle. Someone in the corner said, 'get this man some egg rolls, stat!'"

~~ from "Problem Women, Problem Men" by Avee Chaudhuri

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Monday, July 27, 2026

"Paideia" by J.L. Moultrie

At Hobart, J.L. Moultrie experiences homelessness and more.

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Sunday, July 26, 2026

Morrison and Robbins

The novelist-in-residence at L.U.S.K. has been reading The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison and Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins.

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Friday, July 24, 2026

rare titles

Enjoy a signed Dan Fante Chump Change or "as new" hot indie titles. 

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Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day

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