Nephew is an imprint of Mud Luscious Press publishing linguistically jagged, pocket-sized titles that redefine language. Go ahead, hold one in your hands, remember what it means to shiver.
71 pgs. /// Feb. 29th, 2012 ///
“I’m not convinced you want to read this. I mean, you’re now in a motel on the side of the highway, blood on the walls, and this book is a note on a nightstand. XXXXXX XXXXX has written a maddening book of clues that hang on to us until we crumble into the impossible joke of it. I got inside and tried to call you, but you didn’t pick up. XXXXX’s phones are made of static. And there is no you. And there are no heroes. And an old birthday cake. A cow keeps rocking.” – Zachary Schomburg
35 pgs. /// Feb. 29th, 2012 ///
“I dreamed of a snake that was digesting its own head using only math and sleight of imaginary hand, and then I read this, and know now that I’m a gifted psychic.” – Stephen Graham Jones
50 pgs. /// Sept. 2011 ///
“Love & Diphtheria, yes: here Kloss does creation & destruction as it must be: in the same breath, a magnificent, unblinking act of remembrance & retribution, aimed at we who despite the skinless horses and burning bears would still go on, would deign to say anything at all with all this fire bursting out of people and the weird ground, and which from also comes a light.” – Blake Butler
“Hell of a little monster, and one giant hell of a book.” – Specter Magazine
“At its heart this is a gorgeous book about a simple and universal idea: the decay and destruction of love, and the weird thing that lingers on in its place. It is a book with a broken heart. And to read it is to break your own, in all the ways that pain equals love equals endings.” – Big Other
41 pgs. /// June 2011 ///
“Yikey yow wow wow—this what is it is AWESOME. Really a beautiful piece of art. Distinctive and “far-out” but still fetching and readable.” – Adam Robinson
“Meat Is All assaults the reader with a smattering of language constructions that are occasionally playful, usually clever, oftentimes disturbing, and always perception-blowing. Defying classification, the book is a masterful piece of conceptual art.” – Outsider Writers Collective
“It’s an ambitious work, both emotionally and creatively. A thoroughly enjoyable work from a young, up and coming independent writer.” – LitStack
“Borgstrom’s verbal recreation, which empowers calibrated repetition and reminds of words’ resourcefulness – multiple dictionary definitions and pliable parts of speech – is never reckless. Each 3-segmented page-long section has a gristle-sticky cohesiveness.” – Pank
46 pgs. /// April 2011 ///
“Darby Larson’s names and singalongs scatter over the whitewash the way we’re sometimes thinking too hard to hold the mugs we’re fondest of. This is a text that fades and shirks and gabs. It shudders like the needle that won’t land. Opt to be a Freeman, and let Larson parse your dreams for subthoughts.” – Mike Young
“Friends and colleagues who have heard me raving about this book have, of course, asked me if they should read it too—and to them I say emphatically: yes!” – Pank
“Each sentence is a leviathan moving through the pages’ white water, both reptilian and mammalian, each letter a scale on its back as it submerges and resurfaces for oxygen.” – Eric Beeny Forthcoming from Nephew:
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