Why pay less when spending more is so easy and free? Right. In other words, if anyone would like a shipped paperback copy of Auggie's Revenge or Fight for Your Long Day, the internet may be able to deliver. There are also affordable copies of Auggie's Revenge at Apple Books, on eBay, for Kindle, as well as at Bookshop and Smashwords, too.
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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Find affordable Auggie here, here, here, and here.
3/17/26 update: And at Smashwords, too.
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affordable copies available online
At eBay, we found affordable new copies of Auggie's Revenge as well as fine or near fine copies of the first edition of Fight for Your Long Day. Other sellers offer new and used copies of each novel.
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Amazon reviews
Amazon has new reviews of Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day: "Kudera is a darn fine writer, worthy to be read on the level of the sentence."
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Novel Excerpts
Spark Park
"Uncle Sam's Decline": An Excerpt from Spark Park, The Airgonaut, September 2022
"Persecuting the Poet": An Excerpt from Spark Park, Malarkey Books, June 2021
"Night Shift": An Excerpt from Spark Park, Revolution John, April 2021
from Part I, Chapter 3: "Be Patient, Rover" at American, British and Canadian Studies
Part I, Chapters 1-3: Auggie's Revenge Sample at Beating Windward Press
Part I, Chapter 9: "Uncle Sam's Blood Money" at When Falls the Coliseum
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"painfully funny"
Talented writer, editor, and publisher Gordon Haber tweeted "five stars" for Auggie's Revenge, so that was nice. Please do consider his new collection of poetry and prose, 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year.
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