{"title":"Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"your-friends-will-carry-you-home","title":"Your Friends Will Carry You Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Adam Gnade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Bread \u0026amp; Roses Publishing and Three One G\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of autobiographical literary writing in the vein of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson, Adam Gnade’s latest is both a spirited, hard-luck adventure and a clear-eyed look at the power of friendship and community in fraught times. Set in the gray cities and across the sprawling motorway of 2023 England, \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e shows Gnade’s wayward American protagonist and his English friends looking for bright moments and celebration in the face of an uncertain future. This quick, lyrical road novel is recommended for anyone who feels lost in the modern age and wants more from life for themselves and for those they love most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adam makes the details of life sing. Olive oil on toast, a cat in a window, and even an old hat are imbibed with magic and luck. This is a book of stories, but it is also about the love of storytelling, and the marks that stories leave. It weaves together glimpses of life into a tapestry that is so vivid and bright you can't help but be warmed by it.” -\u003cstrong\u003eLora Mathis, artist and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Snakes Came Back\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e shows us how to balance the dark parts of being human and making dumb mistakes with the strength of spending time among good friends acting silly and telling bad jokes. Read it and know what it’s like to travel through this messed up world with enough courage to laugh and smile and love the people around you, in spite of everything else.” -\u003cstrong\u003eBart Schaneman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pot Job\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the closing pages of \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e, the narrator muses, “...if you immediately text someone once a thing happens, you lose the power of telling a story when a story should be told. 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Like Proust’s baroque autobiographical fantasies, this is a book rich with details and life. Gnade’s youthful characters sink to hard drugs and deep depression as they navigate life at the end of the last century. They celebrate and they battle with their demons and throughout it all they eat. This is not a food snob’s novel. Instead Gnade writes about the pain and joy of life and the ways that common, everyday food is there with us at each step. This is a book of deli sub sandwiches, endless burritos, eggplant parmesan, the magnificence of good sourdough bread, of box brownies and Nacho Cheese Doritos, rolled tacos and the perfect tortilla. \u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e is a raging, ecstatic, troubled book that shows a world of food and a world of life, each inextricable from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent novel, an energetic tale of ambition, sorrow, and American hunger. 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Gnade’s California is a place of border clash, of a glimpse of stormy sea from a top coastal hills or rollercoasters, of ratty beach apartments and punk shows. A collaborative release by Three One G and Pioneers Press, this is a story that asks, “What does it mean to hold fast to your dreams, ethics, and beliefs while the whole world tries to tame you?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Locust House\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Though the San Diego hardcore scene of the late ’90s and early 2000s has as many detractors as it does champions, Locust House doesn’t attempt to defend or deride it. Instead, writer Adam Gnade’s most recent work of fiction uses a house party featuring scene favorites (The Locust, The Blood Brothers, De Facto) as a way to explore the lives of the people who crammed themselves into a sweaty house together. In under 80 pages Locust House deals in sharp, affecting portraits of hopeless kids using spastic noise-punk as a bonding agent. It explains what brought these characters to the same show, and how those radical ideas either stuck with them as they aged or became a distant memory. Gnade doesn’t exalt either side; instead he uses Locust House as a way of exploring the myriad ways people can grow together or grow apart after being steeped in a subculture. In many ways, Locust House ends up functioning like a song by one of the aforementioned bands: short, chaotic, and hyper-resonant. That is, if you’re willing to look for the beauty hidden beneath the racket.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Anthony, \u003cem\u003eAV Club\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Honestly, I’m at a complete loss for words. This single book blew me away hardcore. My friend, Rebecca, was the one to first show me the work of Adam Gnade and I was totally shocked. The rawness and the realness of the words I was reading made me squeal at some points while reading, because I don’t think I’ve ever read something quite like this before. I was underlining and tagging this book like crazy and I’m so glad that it exists. Agnes’s story was a hard thing to read, rough times are always hard to read, but it was so great. Frances, James, and Tyler were all so different but so connected in ways I couldn’t even imagine. This view of America and society and community, it’s like all the things I’ve wanted to try to say right on the page in front of me. Although it’s short, it’s not sweet. It’s a look at the reality of relationships, the past, present, future, and world from the point of view of people living it, told through Gnade. Adam, you rock dude. This book is truly LIFE CHANGING.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlague of Books\u003c\/em\u003e blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Locust House is a novella-length rumination on a time, a place, and a culture. It’s an impressionistic love letter to San Diego’s fringe music scene, circa 2002. It is beautiful, unsettling, and immersive. Gnade presents readers with a handful of misfit characters who orbit San Diego's gritty noise-punk milieu and frequent the Locust House—a home-turned-concert venue, rented and operated by the members of The Locust during the early 2000s. Some of these characters know each other, some don’t. However, they’re all drawn to The Locust's extreme, envelope-pushing music. 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These characters, I should mention, are all secondary to the sights, sounds, smells, and ephemeral feelings that are lyrically detailed in the novella.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeon Grisly\u003c\/em\u003e blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Gnade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41887397216374,"sku":"LCS-HS","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5662\/4502\/files\/locust-house.png?v=1735591514"},{"product_id":"the-internet-newspaper","title":"The Internet Newspaper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Adam Gnade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Three One G and Bread \u0026amp; Roses Press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e180 pages, paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdam Gnade’s pocketsize novel \u003cem\u003eThe Internet Newspaper\u003c\/em\u003e is about working at the online version of a daily newspaper during the weird, clumsy, well-funded early days of the internet. 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Adam Gnade has written an endearing and honest coming-of-age story about love and death and the weight of existence.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eRios de la Luz, author of \u003cem\u003eItzá\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adam Gnade saves lives. His books are life preservers, letters from future selves that tell you, it'll be okay, I promise. \u003cem\u003eIn This Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e, Gnade tunnels through spitfire stories of his hometowns, of friends lost in the headlights of trucks, of fever dreams written in missives on the backs of postcards. This is reportage from a hot-headed angel holding on for dear life to the remote islands that sustain him, those echoes of voices inside his gut that relentlessly holler hope over the waves.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJasmine Dreame Wagner, author of \u003cem\u003eOn a Clear Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant pep-talk from the bare-knuckle fist fight of life. An encyclopedia of pain colored pretty. Hemingway at a house show. A beautiful scar left from the wound that took years to heal. Lingering thoughts of Shit, I wish I’d written that. And Mexican food.” -\u003cstrong\u003eTanner Ballengee, author of \u003cem\u003eSixty Tattoos I Secretly Gave Myself at Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e thrums with manic energy like an oversized moth beating itself to death against the porch light. It's layered like a pile of old sweaters with dreamlike cadences, could-be-my-own internal monologues, the backroads and byways of America, freaks, weirdos, heartbreak, renewal, rebirth, the ashes of glory, hopelessness, and alienation in equal measure. It's a book about everything and nothing told in a way that feels like free-falling through summer sky, muggy and realistic and surrealistic and I love it and will fight you in its honor until you, Adam Gnade, are dead and I can take all your cool rocks.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Eff, author of \u003cem\u003eDon't Piss Down My Back \u0026amp; Tell Me It's Raining\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gnade's writing has enough heart and soul to last generations.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eMichael J Seidlinger, author of \u003cem\u003eDreams of Being\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e is like having a drunken, late-night conversation with an old friend you haven’t seen for years: freewheeling and wild, tender and warm, funny and a little bit sad, and altogether something you won’t soon forget.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJuliet Escoria, author of \u003cem\u003eJuliet the Maniac\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most remarkable aspects of Gnade's writing is how he's able to juxtapose sentimental, beautiful imagery and striking insight with the often brutal, tragic fate of his characters—sometimes all within the same page. 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Interspersed throughout the hardships are quiet moments of beauty and connection. Trading bad puns with your tour-mate while driving cross-country, sharing a meal with an old friend, even drinking alone by a river in the summer dusk—Adam Gnade describes each moment in such lyrical detail it’s like you’re right there. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End...\u003c\/em\u003e is about the ways we carry home with us, and that no matter how many people and places we lose, no matter how many times we get beat down or beat up, there will always be another chance to change our lives. 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You'll feel buoyed by the resonance.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eBart Schaneman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Silence is the Noise\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Green and the Gold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A book in which its characters, good-hearted—or not so—are shown tenderness and understanding by their creator. One where a resilient vulnerability motions forward, coat collar pulled tight around the neck, through the unrelenting storm of everyday becoming yourself all over again. If you have lived a life on the fringe, if you find yourself surrounded by people who, like you, aim to carve out their own idea of belonging, then Adam is writing to you.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Mears, Youthmovies, author of \u003cem\u003eKettledrum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adam’s work has this intuitive ability to toss a few pebbles against the windows of your soul and find out if anyone’s home. 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Adam Gnade takes us on a tour of familiar haunts with the lingering high of the one dose that almost did us in and the sobering alchemy of a rural tent revival or a basement show where the hometown punks play loudest and last.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eNick Bernal, \u003cem\u003eBurn All Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some people from recent generations live straight lives, they graduate high school, go to college, marriage, kids, mortgage. Some people stumble about, ending up in random places on the United States map looking for adventure, some people never pull it together at all, suicide, drugs, prison. It isn't easy to have to be straight, it isn't to be a wanderer and it isn't easy to never pull together. 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Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down-it's a refreshing, innovative collection.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eChelsea Hodson, author of \u003cem\u003eTonight I'm Someone Else\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eClaire Hopple writes like she's planning a bank robbery on acid, only the bank is a hot air balloon, and there's no such thing as money. Part Amelia Gray, part Mary Robison, part love letter to the subconscious, \u003cem\u003eEcho Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e will steal your identity and leave you profoundly, delightfully awake.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Maloney, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Red-Headed Pilgrim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEcho Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e is sharp, wry, wicked fun. 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