Two Dollar Radio
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Two Dollar Radio is an independent publishing house based in Columbus, Ohio
, also known as The Two Dollar Radio Movement. The company was founded in 2005 by husband and wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood, with Brian Obenauf. Emily Pullen joined the publishing house as an editor and outreach director in August 2010. The press specializes in literary fiction.
50 Under 40 series, which focuses on 50 young individuals involved in publishing to be aware of.
The press occasionally works with outside artists on jacket designs. Esteemed NYC artist Barbara Kruger
designed the cover to Gary Indiana
’s seventh novel, The Shanghai Gesture
, published in April 2009. Photographer Lynn Davis provided the cover photographs for her husband Rudolph Wurlitzer’s four novels that the press has published. San Francisco-based collage
artist, Aubrey Rhodes designed the jacket for Joshua Mohr
’s second novel, Termite Parade, published in July 2010. And two works of art by Mat Brinkman
were used in The Orange Eats Creeps — one on the cover and one as a frontispiece.
Two Dollar Radio is distributed in the US and Canada by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution, and internationally by Turnaround Publisher Services.
, Scott Bradfield
, Amy Koppelman, Lawrence Shainberg
, Francis Levy
, Anthony Neil Smith
, Joshua Mohr
, Xiaoda Xiao, Grace Krilanovich
, Barbara Browning
, among others.
The press has reissued three Rudolph Wurlitzer novels, Nog
, Flats, and Quake and published Wurlitzer's first novel in 24 years, The Drop Edge of Yonder. The book was named Best Book of 2008 by Time Out New York, won Foreword
Book of the Year Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, and was a Believer Magazine
Reader’s Choice Top-20 Pick.
1940, award-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's first new novel in two decades, was on the long list for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
.
Francis Levy’s
debut novel, Erotomania
: A Romance, was a Queerty Top 10 Book of 2008 and named a Standout Book of the Year by Inland Empire Weekly.
Joshua Mohr
's first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me, was one of O: The Oprah Magazines 10 Terrific Reads of 2009, a Huffington Post Best Small Press Book of the Year, a Nervous Breakdown Best Book of 2009, and a San Francisco Chronicle
best-seller. His second novel, Termite Parade, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
Grace Krilanovich
, author of The Orange Eats Creeps, was selected as a National Book Foundation
2010 "5 Under 35" Honoree (selected by Scott Spencer
, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981). The Orange Eats Creeps was selected as one of Amazon.com's
Best Books of 2010 in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy, was named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Shelf Unbound, was a NPR
Best Books of 2010, and a The Believer
Book Award Finalist in 2010.
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
, also known as The Two Dollar Radio Movement. The company was founded in 2005 by husband and wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood, with Brian Obenauf. Emily Pullen joined the publishing house as an editor and outreach director in August 2010. The press specializes in literary fiction.
History
In 2008, the publishers were profiled as part of Publishers Weekly’sPublishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
50 Under 40 series, which focuses on 50 young individuals involved in publishing to be aware of.
The press occasionally works with outside artists on jacket designs. Esteemed NYC artist Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
designed the cover to Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana is an American writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He teaches philosophy and literature at the New School in New York City. He divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.- Fiction :...
’s seventh novel, The Shanghai Gesture
The Shanghai Gesture
The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American United Artists film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson....
, published in April 2009. Photographer Lynn Davis provided the cover photographs for her husband Rudolph Wurlitzer’s four novels that the press has published. San Francisco-based collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
artist, Aubrey Rhodes designed the jacket for Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is an American author. His first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me was published by Two Dollar Radio in June, 2009. His second novel, Termite Parade, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2010. His third novel, Damascus, will be published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011...
’s second novel, Termite Parade, published in July 2010. And two works of art by Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman is an artist and electronic musician from Texas. He was a creator of the Fort Thunder artist live-work space in Providence, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial...
were used in The Orange Eats Creeps — one on the cover and one as a frontispiece.
Two Dollar Radio is distributed in the US and Canada by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution, and internationally by Turnaround Publisher Services.
Publishing
Authors published by Two Dollar Radio include Rudolph Wurlitzer, Jay Neugeboren, Gary IndianaGary Indiana
Gary Indiana is an American writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He teaches philosophy and literature at the New School in New York City. He divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.- Fiction :...
, Scott Bradfield
Scott Bradfield
Scott Michael Bradfield is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in London, England. He has taught at the University of California and the University of Connecticut and has reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement, Elle, The Observer, Vice and The Independent...
, Amy Koppelman, Lawrence Shainberg
Lawrence Shainberg
Lawrence Shainberg is an American author. Lawrence Shainberg was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been published several times. His books include: Ambivalent Zen, a memoir of spiritual ambition, One on One; Brain Surgeon: An Intimate View of the World; Memories of Amnesia; and CRUST...
, Francis Levy
Francis Levy
Francis Levy is the author of the comic novels , published by Two Dollar Radio in 2008 and subsequently translated in a by in 2009, and , published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011. Levy is also the co-founder of the...
, Anthony Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith is a mystery/crime fiction writer who has had over thirty of his short stories published in literary magazines and crime writing zines. He is the co-editor/co-creator of the well-received online noir journal Plots with Guns...
, Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is an American author. His first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me was published by Two Dollar Radio in June, 2009. His second novel, Termite Parade, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2010. His third novel, Damascus, will be published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011...
, Xiaoda Xiao, Grace Krilanovich
Grace Krilanovich
Grace Krilanovich is an American author. Her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010...
, Barbara Browning
Barbara Browning
Barbara Browning is an American academic, novelist, dancer, and cultural critic.Browning received her B.A. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1983, spent a year in Brazil on a Fulbright fellowship, where she studied dance, and then returned to Yale to complete her Ph.D. in 1989...
, among others.
The press has reissued three Rudolph Wurlitzer novels, Nog
Nog (book)
Nog is a psychedelic novel by Rudolph Wurlitzer published in 1969. Written in an experimental style, the novel is described by Atlantic Monthly as being effective at replicating "the slight and continuous dissociation of reality...normally achieved by using soft drugs to tinker with the nervous...
, Flats, and Quake and published Wurlitzer's first novel in 24 years, The Drop Edge of Yonder. The book was named Best Book of 2008 by Time Out New York, won Foreword
ForeWord (magazine)
ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent, and university presses, as well as...
Book of the Year Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, and was a Believer Magazine
The Believer (magazine)
The Believer is a United States literary magazine that also covers other arts and general culture. Founded and designed in 2003 by the writer and publisher Dave Eggers, it is edited by Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Ed Park...
Reader’s Choice Top-20 Pick.
1940, award-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's first new novel in two decades, was on the long list for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world...
.
Francis Levy’s
Francis Levy
Francis Levy is the author of the comic novels , published by Two Dollar Radio in 2008 and subsequently translated in a by in 2009, and , published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011. Levy is also the co-founder of the...
debut novel, Erotomania
Erotomania
Erotomania is a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger or famous person, is in love with him or her. The illness often occurs during psychosis, especially in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar mania...
: A Romance, was a Queerty Top 10 Book of 2008 and named a Standout Book of the Year by Inland Empire Weekly.
Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is an American author. His first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me was published by Two Dollar Radio in June, 2009. His second novel, Termite Parade, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2010. His third novel, Damascus, will be published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011...
's first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me, was one of O: The Oprah Magazines 10 Terrific Reads of 2009, a Huffington Post Best Small Press Book of the Year, a Nervous Breakdown Best Book of 2009, and a San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
best-seller. His second novel, Termite Parade, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
Grace Krilanovich
Grace Krilanovich
Grace Krilanovich is an American author. Her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010...
, author of The Orange Eats Creeps, was selected as a National Book Foundation
National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation, founded in 1989, is an American nonprofit literary organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." It achieves this through sponsoring the National Book Award, as well as the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American...
2010 "5 Under 35" Honoree (selected by Scott Spencer
Scott Spencer
Scott Spencer may refer to:* Scott Spencer , novelist who wrote Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper* Scott A. Spencer , American abstract painter* Scott Spencer , English footballer playing for Hyde F.C....
, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981). The Orange Eats Creeps was selected as one of Amazon.com's
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
Best Books of 2010 in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy, was named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Shelf Unbound, was a NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
Best Books of 2010, and a The Believer
The Believer
The Believer is a 2001 film written by Henry Bean and Mark Jacobson, and directed by Henry Bean. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, an Orthodox Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi...
Book Award Finalist in 2010.