Roadside Press

12/21/2024

copies are on their way to the author for signing. just three signed copies left up for grabs. reserve yours today!

12/21/2024

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12/20/2024

a special F**K IT FRIDAY deal! buy 2 books, any price, and get free shipping! no code required!! Discount applied at checkout. ENDS 12/21 AT MIDNIGHT ❤ https://www.magicaljeep.com/

12/20/2024

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12/17/2024

get to know our very own LORI JAKIELA! new interview over at Canvas Rebel. check it out!!

We were lucky to catch up with Lori Jakiela recently and have shared our conversation below. Lori, looking forward to hearing all of your

12/17/2024

Danny Shot's NIGHT BIRD FLYING drops next month! have you reserved your signed copy yet? https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/night/184

12/17/2024

all Roadside Press titles are on Amazon and if you're quick, still time to arrive by Christmas. ❤

12/08/2024

these hot lil numbers should start hitting mailboxes early this coming week. available only through the month of december... at magical jeep (with insert), amazon, barnes & noble, ev'rywhere (links in comments) ❤

12/07/2024

"I’ve read and loved Karl Koweski’s poems for years, and this story collection delivers the same kind of excitement and intensity but in bigger spaces. More pain. More disagreement. Bigger laughs. The arrival of a strange houseplant beats up a marriage. The name of the graffiti artist that tags your car is Herpes. Some of these stories are set in the great Midwest, others wander south. Lots of this happens in a Northern Alabama as weird as a George Singleton story and as rocking as a Drive-by Truckers song.

"This is a book where the characters have to make money, where getting paid is the only chance for success, no matter how small, and Karl shows us how the underclass survives— pizza delivery drivers selling women shoes on eBay, the underemployed mingling with the unemployed who are always looking for a new job. Even the surrealist of stories ring with the realism of the working class banging on something.

"Koweski’s characters are fighters, realistic enough to know it’s not worth the fight but that a good brawl may be the best thing that happens all night. Every story is like stepping onto a new moon surrounding a planet made of strip malls and useless factories. Karl Koweski makes these places and their people sing. I loved it."
—Dave Newman, She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall

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12/05/2024

really great review by Ryan Mathews on NIGHT BIRD FLYING by Danny Shot up at Beatdom now! give it a look-see ❤ https://www.beatdom.com/night-bird-review/

12/04/2024

hey, wouldya take a look at that?! Independent Book Review names APOCALYPSING by Jason Anderson (Roadside Press) as one of their "Best Indie Books We Read in 2024" ❤

12/03/2024

it's giving tuesday and we're getting sooo close to our goal for a block of ISBNs! 76% of the way there!! throw down if you can. sharing is caring! ❤
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pictured is our shoestring. it's tattered and worn. every month could be the month that shuts us down. it's like that. this is our "annual" fundraiser. we are looking for a little wiggle room. we are looking to buy a block of ISBNs. your support is appreciated more than you can know.

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12/01/2024

"Danny Shot’s Night Bird Flying from Roadside Press is a fierce and poignant collection that captures the grit and tenderness of life on the fringes—where New Jersey meets New York and scars of the past meet the possibility of healing. Shot’s voice is steeped in the dualities of identity, blending humor with heartache and toughness with vulnerability."—Richard Modiano READ THE FULL REVIEW at Sensitive Skin Magazine here: https://www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/night-bird-flying-by-danny-shot-review/

11/28/2024

check it out! the reviews are coming in—Shot of Life: A Review of Danny Shot’s Night Bird Flying by Westley Heine. ❤ https://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/shot-of-life-a-review-of-danny-shots-night-bird-flying-byshot-of-life-a-review-of-danny-shots-night-bird-flying-by-westley-heine/

Like its namesake the Hendrix song “Night Bird Flying,” this collection of stories builds and builds until you think it’s hit a plateau. Then it builds upon itself again. Largely autobiographical, …

11/27/2024

Reserve your signed copy here: https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/thrift/181

“I’ve been a fan of Karl Koweski’s writing since first publishing him in The Brown Bottle, a zine I threw together at the turn of the century, back when…well, back when Karl and I were young. And it thrills me to say that I still love his work, even as Karl and I both hobble through middle age. Koweski’s characters in Thrift Store Jackets are not great people, and they’re certainly not heroes. But they’re real people: the real people that all of us know, the real people plodding through their tedious days with dreams that should matter, but most often their dreams are ignored. They're not rich or pretty or refined, but they’re the people sitting next to you right now—funny and sad and ugly and strangely gorgeous. If you blink, you’ll miss them. Thankfully, Koweski doesn’t. That’s why I’ll always be a fan of Karl Koweski's work.”—Nathan Graziano, Born on Good Friday