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12/16/2024

Montjoy is available in select bookstores, and here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNVL539

12/13/2024

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12/09/2024

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12/04/2024

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11/29/2024

BRITT & JIMMY STRIKE OUT

Stephan Salisbury's book was made for the Age of Trump.
What happens when a girl’s brand loses its juice and she doesn’t buckle up and ride with the President? Nothing good, as Britt finds out pretty damn quickly.

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"Blade Runner meets Dante's Inferno. This book is a funhouse ride through a world in which pseudo-reality (and managing self as brand) has become reality. The prose is lush and playful and utterly at odds with the bleak, apocalyptic world observed. Be prepared for a queasy stomach. Read it, if you dare."

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This book was made for the Age of Trump. What happens when a girl’s brand loses its juice and she doesn’t buckle up and ride with the President? Nothing good, as Britt finds out pretty damn quickly. Not only does her income go down the tubes, but her friends start to disappear. She gets a visit ...

11/26/2024

Told through the verging, alternating viewpoints of two broken women in two different eras, The Circle Game is at once a thoughtful commentary on female agency, racial bias, and domestic abuse, as well as a nuanced novel wrought with literary heft and profound psychological tension.

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11/25/2024

Another excellent review for Curt Finch's novel Montjoy!

'“Montjoy” is a gripping literary novella that masterfully weaves together multiple narrative threads exploring guilt, memory, and the echoes of historical trauma. Through the story of protagonist, a Jewish academic studying N**i-era documents, and his parallel journey processing his son’s su***de, the novel examines how past and present suffering intertwine.

The heart of the narrative revolves around a mysterious diary found at Mauthausen concentration camp, written by an SS officer named Martin Ulbrecht Tauber. As the protagonist analyzes this document while staying with friends in Vienna, the lines between historical investigation and personal grief begin to blur. Tauber’s increasingly unreliable account, which includes claims of a vigilante resistance fighter targeting Gestapo agents, serves as a dark mirror for protagonist’s own struggles with truth and self-deception in the wake of his loss.

Finch’s prose is precise and unflinching, equally adept at rendering bureaucratic documents and moments of searing emotional intensity. The novel’s innovative structure, incorporating academic analysis, personal reflection, and historical documents, creates a complex meditation on how we process trauma across generations. While the book’s scholarly detail may challenge some readers, its core human story about a father grappling with loss remains deeply affecting and engaging.

“Montjoy” is a bold experiment in form and structure, deliberately blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Through its innovative use of documents, academic analysis, and personal narrative, the novel keeps readers questioning what’s real and what’s imagined. The extensive historical detail and archival citations lend authenticity to fictional elements, while seemingly factual portions may be elaborate constructions, creating a rich meditation on the nature of truth and memory.

“Montjoy” is an ambitious and accomplished work that uses the lens of Holocaust studies to explore timeless questions about memory, guilt, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. At 123 pages, it’s an easily digestible work that can be enjoyed in a couple of hours. Recommended for readers of W.G. Sebald and Laurent Binet."

“Montjoy” is a gripping literary novella that masterfully weaves together multiple narrative threads exploring guilt, memory, and the echoes of historical trauma. Through the story of p…

11/22/2024

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11/20/2024

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11/19/2024

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11/14/2024

We love Curt Finch's new book and think you will too! MONTJOY: A NOVEL IN FIVE VERGES is now available in paperback and eBook. Purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNVL539

11/11/2024

Verlie Sue Martin, an attractive fifteen-year-old girl, is exceptional. She has a gift for making animals—or people—disappear, an ability that manifested after she was baptized in the local Pentecostal Church. Verlie lives in an insular town, her life cycling between school, the family hog farm,...

11/09/2024

Meet the new editor for Alternative Book Press: Tracy Haught.

Tracy (Getz) Haught grew up in Wichita, Kansas in the seventies and eighties but left home to follow the Grateful Dead the day after she turned sixteen - that was 1991- in 2018, her kids grown and a twenty-two year marriage suddenly ending, Tracy finally went for it. Pursuing her writing dreams, she earned an MFA in writing and publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was the recipient of the 2018 Phoenix Books' Howard Frank Mosher Emerging Fiction Writer Scholarship. She is a contributing editor for Isele Magazine, and was Isele's fiction and managing editor from 2020-2024.
Writing in all genres, her publications include Awakened Voices, Barzakh Magazine, Cybersoleil, Helix Magazine, Hunger Mountain Literary Journal, Isele Magazine, The Lumiere Review, Magnapoets, The Montpelier Bridge, The Oklahoma Review, Poetry for the Masses, Polyphony, Prime Mincer, SLAB Lit Mag, Sugar Mule, The Whistling Fire, and others.
You can read more of her work at substack.com/ & tracyhaught.wordpress.com.
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10/30/2024

New fiction from Curt Finch!

Montjoy is a book for the moment, a bold work of fiction about the truth that dies and the lies that live on. When a N**i diary is found at the Mauthausen Memorial in Austria, it's entrusted to a Jewish professor in England. The professor encounters a fantastic tale of a masked vigilante taking revenge against the Gestapo on the eve of WWII. Written by a camp guard and former detective in the Berlin Criminal Police, the diary describes one man's collision course with history, from the trenches of the Somme to the cabarets of Berlin, to the crematoriums of Mauthausen and the graveyards left behind. As the professor dives deeper, he discovers the author isn't who he seems and the diary might be a su***de note masking an even greater mystery. As a result, the professor must confront his own son's su***de, a mystery he has never been able to solve.

Told in an experimental style that echoes the works of W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair, Montjoy is a chilling story about the ghosts of history and the shadows that linger long after the clock tolls.