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

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

🪩✨ 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

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...

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...

🌀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...

📞 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...

🪩✨ 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

📞 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...

“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...

🌀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...

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

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

"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...

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

wildly excited for this, coming April 2026

Thanks @necessaryfiction.com and @twodollarradio.bsky.social—I had fun covering this one!

Our own @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social has a review in @necessaryfiction.com this week. @twodollarradio.bsky.social

“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...

Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE is one of “six must-read books by Black authors” this summer at The Guardian ❤️‍🔥 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Wrote about a book I loved. Us Fools by Nora Lange @twodollarradio.bsky.social andrewbertaina.substack.com/p/us-fools

"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...

Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE is one of “six must-read books by Black authors” this summer at The Guardian ❤️‍🔥 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

For The New Yorker — read Nora Lange’s “Hot Spot” from forthcoming book DAY CARE (out April 2026) @newyorker.com ✨ www.newyorker.com/books/flash-...

Nora Lange interviewed by Andy Downing for @matternews.bsky.social ahead of the Columbus Book Festival this weekend. Highly recommend this. matternews.org/culture/word...

Tonight in New York: Issa Quincy launches ABSENCE into Book World™️ at WORD Brooklyn at 7pm w/ Lila Azam Zanganeh 💫 🔗 wordbookstores.com/event/2025-0...

Issa Quincy’s “thoughtful” and “imaginative” novel ABSENCE is out today! 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/abs...

ABSENCE by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/abse...

"Absence offers a moving, artful examination of what it means to exist in a space vacated and left behind by others." @brockkingsley.bsky.social's review of “Absence” by Issa Quincy (@twodollarradio.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/14/i...

NEW feature on our site! SMALL PRESS PAGES July 2025 booksbywomen.org/small-press-... by Christina Consolino @twodollarradio.bsky.social @smallharborpub.bsky.social @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social

Nora Lange interviewed by Andy Downing for @matternews.bsky.social ahead of the Columbus Book Festival this weekend. Highly recommend this. matternews.org/culture/word...

Thank you, Drew, for including THE SOFA by Sam Munson — out Nov. 11!

👀 "The 10 Books You Should Be Reading in July" includes Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE — out July 15! Shoutout to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social & @insidehook.bsky.social 💖 www.insidehook.com/books/10-boo...

Issa Quincy (ABSENCE, July 15!) interviewed by Hannah Bonner for BOMB, where they talk about archiving, otherness, exile, freedom, autofiction, "Quincy’s hypnotic prose is lyrically pleasing as well as philosophically rich" —Hannah Bonner, @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

For The New Yorker — read Nora Lange’s “Hot Spot” from forthcoming book DAY CARE (out April 2026) @newyorker.com ✨ www.newyorker.com/books/flash-...

Issa Quincy (ABSENCE, July 15!) interviewed by Hannah Bonner for BOMB, where they talk about archiving, otherness, exile, freedom, autofiction, "Quincy’s hypnotic prose is lyrically pleasing as well as philosophically rich" —Hannah Bonner, @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

👀 "The 10 Books You Should Be Reading in July" includes Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE — out July 15! Shoutout to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social & @insidehook.bsky.social 💖 www.insidehook.com/books/10-boo...

Thank you, Drew, for including THE SOFA by Sam Munson — out Nov. 11!

⚫️⚪️We are thrilled and honored to announce that the New Classics Edition of ✨BINARY STAR✨ by Sarah Gerard — with a new original introduction by Catherine Lacey 👀 — is coming May 2026!! 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/bin...

‘“To get to Hell,” he says in a low voice, “they take you through America. There is a door behind a door.”’ —A DOOR BEHIND A DOOR by Yelena Moskovich 🚪🚪 #sundaysentence 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/doo...

Two Dollar Radio essay collections as flowers carried by Jeremy Allen White

The one-and-only @michaelschaub.bsky.social called us “your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher” and now we have to sit down. THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

The one-and-only @michaelschaub.bsky.social called us “your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher” and now we have to sit down. THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

⚫️⚪️We are thrilled and honored to announce that the New Classics Edition of ✨BINARY STAR✨ by Sarah Gerard — with a new original introduction by Catherine Lacey 👀 — is coming May 2026!! 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/bin...

Mila esker to Scott Schomburg for this thoughtful review in Harvard Review of my novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social)! www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

How to immediately grab Aarik’s attention (from A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt @twodollarradio.bsky.social)

“She talks against the silence like a cry against a storm..” —Issa Quincy, #sundaysentence from ABSENCE (out July 15) Read the entire excerpt from ABSENCE, titled “Mr. Rothlan,” exclusively over at Guernica Mag 🧡 🔗 www.guernicamag.com/mr-rothlan/