HILARIOUS
How can you be a standup comedian when you keep falling down? What if you can't take a punchline? Is life really just the same pain from a different angle? In the small town of Drie Ecken, Ohio, on the greasy carpets of the Motel Mumbo Jumbo, atop the beer-soaked stage of the Comedy Smithereens, things are looking quite promising for a man with no promise.
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Y0U WILL KNOW
[Marine Press]
They called him Full Glue because he was as big as a horse. He called her Pronto because she was always fast upon him. Together they were a successful team, until they weren't.
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DONKEY
Up in the mountains above Casper, Wyoming, behind a cabin, under the snow, the "Goods" are buried. Can this Pipe Donkey get to them before his past catches up to him?
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COOKING COCKROACH:
A Guide To Modern Poverty
Joey Truman, today’s “poet of the appetites,” pays tribute to food, and all who have eaten it, in Whiskey Tit’s first foray into food writing, Cooking Cockroach. From dented cans and found foods to homemade spices, immerse yourself into methods, tips, and poor person’s techniques in making delicious food without delicious amounts of dollars. From taco burgers and hot pot to campfire chicken legs, Joey wastes not a dime nor a morsel while charming the masses with his one-of-a-kind kitchen skills.
Because starving to death is no excuse for a lousy meal.
PARLAY
A weirdly beautiful return trip to the alt-universe of postman Whitey Whitlock (protaganist of Postal Child) as he prepares his crew of pirate birds to set sail from Brooklyn—sex, drugs, pipes, hickies, and an unexpected sweetness offer a new kind of novel.
Postal Child
Joey Truman's debut novel with Whiskey Tit carves open a space of neo-realist fantasia that moves with such specific detail between the two forms, it's an utterly singular reading experience.
The story of a kid from Brooklyn named Esmerelda Tourno Whitlock who has no luck on his side—except for two things—he can talk to birds and lacks any real sense of the world around him.
Disorienting, alternately dark and light, and redemptive in ways you've likely never felt before.
Killing the Math
Continuing the tradition of American coming-of-age memoir, Joey takes a slice of his teenage years as one of five brothers in 1990s nowhere Wyoming—and with direct descriptives and sense of place, renders a moment in time rich with the magic and transformative banality of adolescence and everyday desire.
PERCOLATOR
A couple of numb-skulls get stuck inside an apartment in Casper, Wyoming on a very windy day. Godot eat your heart out.
KinderRinder
An interior play-by-play of a Nazi soldier moving towards the only choice he has left.
As his death train rumbles on, this horrifyingly relevant consideration of honor traverses an unexplored corner of WW II consciousness in a tight, disturbing tale.
Etiquette
A close and personal look at the way we interact in a city in 2019. Written just before the pandemic it now sits as an anthro-urban quick-dive into the Before Times.
Sequestered
Just your everyday accounting of a pandemic during the the first three months of lockdown in the epicenter. New York City. 2020. What we ate and did and felt.
MOVABLE ROOMS
What if Chris McCandless went to Vermont instead? During The Last Good Summer, Joey Truman learns a little about life and a lot about love.
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Killing the Math II
Killing the Math (Joey's first memoir!) may have ended, but Joey's story didn't. Picking up where he left off in his first memoir, Killing the Math II offers Joey's distinct and direct approach to coming-of-age in 1990s nowhere Wyoming. Chronicling the heartbreakingly candid longings of a teenage boy learning the limits of male friendship, the pleasures you hate to admit of family (and four brothers), and ultimately, the intensity of realizing you can be good at something.