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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 9d

I bought this while we were in Columbus & I still need to read it! bsky.app/profile/joie...

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · Jun 16

@twodollarradio.bsky.social was so welcoming & friendly & such a cool space!

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 9d

A new piece from @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social! “How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is? … Issa Quincy’s debut novel, Absence, takes up these questions.” www.full-stop.net/2025/09/17/r...

Absence — Issa Quincy

How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?

www.full-stop.net

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 20d

My review of ABSENCE by Issa Quincy from @twodollarradio.bsky.social is out at Full Stop! www.full-stop.net/2025/09/17/r...

Absence — Issa Quincy

How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?

www.full-stop.net

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 29d

“This morning, I found a pigeon’s head on my morning walk, and it stayed with me all day. It was deeply tragic, a bit pathetic and very beautiful, that’s what I’m usually after.”

Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED is out 9/16!

🪩 @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…

lithub.com

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 27d

thank you for the thoughtful review of Absence!

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 28d

Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son (
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...

Cover to the novel The Hairdresser's Son, which features an illustration of a white and red bird.

Cover to the novel Absence, which features a grid of black and white photographs on an orange background.

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 29d

“This morning, I found a pigeon’s head on my morning walk, and it stayed with me all day. It was deeply tragic, a bit pathetic and very beautiful, that’s what I’m usually after.”

Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED is out 9/16!

🪩 @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…

lithub.com

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Sep 3

For The Brooklyn Rail, Dan Kubis calls Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED “a wildly imaginative, deeply intransigent novel"

@dankubis.bsky.social 🔗 brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.

brooklynrail.org

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Sep 3

🪩✨ Issa Quincy upcoming EVENTS:

Fri, September 5 — Washington, DC // 7pm
@ Kramers w/ McKinley Green

Tues, September 9 — Providence, RI // 7pm
@ Riffraff w/ Nikki Shaner-Bradford

Sun, September 21 — Brooklyn, NY
@ Brooklyn Book Festival

Issa Quincy event details:

Fri, September 5 — Washington, DC // 7pm
@ Kramers w/ McKinley Green

Tues, September 9 — Providence, RI // 7pm
@ Riffraff w/ Nikki Shaner-Bradford

Sun, September 21 — Brooklyn, NY
@ Brooklyn Book Festival

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Dan Kubis @dankubis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's my review of Katharina Volckmer's CALLS MAY BE RECORDED. Happy for thoughts if you've read it. This is not like most novels. @twodollarradio.bsky.social brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.

brooklynrail.org

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Sep 3

For The Brooklyn Rail, Dan Kubis calls Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED “a wildly imaginative, deeply intransigent novel"

@dankubis.bsky.social 🔗 brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded | The Brooklyn Rail

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.

brooklynrail.org

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌀THE SOFA is coming Nov. 11 🌀

“ A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath."
—Michael Clune, author of Pan

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

Blurb from Michael Clune, author of Pan:

“A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath."

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Aug 27

📞 answer the call 💫

Katharina Volckmer’s mordantly hilarious workplace satire, CALLS MAY BE RECORDED, officially hits shelves in just under 3 weeks (Sept. 16)!! Final copies look (and feel) glorious 💫

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/cal...

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Sep 3

🪩✨ Issa Quincy upcoming EVENTS:

Fri, September 5 — Washington, DC // 7pm
@ Kramers w/ McKinley Green

Tues, September 9 — Providence, RI // 7pm
@ Riffraff w/ Nikki Shaner-Bradford

Sun, September 21 — Brooklyn, NY
@ Brooklyn Book Festival

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Aug 27

📞 answer the call 💫

Katharina Volckmer’s mordantly hilarious workplace satire, CALLS MAY BE RECORDED, officially hits shelves in just under 3 weeks (Sept. 16)!! Final copies look (and feel) glorious 💫

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/cal...

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Jul 18

“Volckmer’s prose is electric, and as she skillfully unearths moments of tenderness, even ecstasy, amid the sweat and stench of abjection, she ensures this brief book lingers past its pages. A raucous, gutting workplace novel.” —Kirkus Reviews

out Sept. 16 💫

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

CALLS MAY BE RECORDED | Kirkus Reviews

An employee at a travel-agency call center scrapes together moments of hilarity and strange intimacy into a life he can stand, somewhat.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌀THE SOFA is coming Nov. 11 🌀

“ A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath."
—Michael Clune, author of Pan

🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · Jul 31

Check out the books that inspired Issa Quincy, author of ABSENCE (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬)
debutiful.net/2025/07/31/m...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jul 29

You call it "lacking of plot." I call it "excluding the unnecessary."

7 Books That Break the Confines of Plot - Electric Literature

Calling these books “plotless” ignores their radical storytelling

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything"

Read Issa Quincy’s essay on ABSENCE for @literaryhub.bsky.social

lithub.com/fail-more-fa...

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

My debut novel, Absence, came out of failure. Many months of failure. For nearly a year before I began work on it, I was working on another novel. It was to be longer, more expansive, more determi…

lithub.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Jul 25

Always appreciate a bookstore that not only makes space for small presses but also highlights them. Some @twodollarradio.bsky.social love shown here. @eastcitybooks.bsky.social