People’s Park Release Party
People’s Park by David Agranoff National Book Launch
1:30 PM Sunday April 7th Bloomington, Indiana Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th St, Bloomington, IN 47408 (while you are there check out the "Punk at the Old Library," exhibit!)
Readings, signing, Q and A! hosted by author, researcher, publisher and (PKD)Dickheads co-host D. Harlan Wilson
From the author of The Last Night to Kill Nazis and Punk Rock Ghost Story comes a sci-fi horror love letter to freaks and weirdos and the places they gathered before the internet….
“David Agranoff is a razor sharp writer, a storyteller with hard rock pacing, a magician of ideas...An idealist in hell." - John Shirley, cyberpunk legend and Screenwriter of The Crow
Help us launch this book that is a love letter to the Bloomington underground culture!
***NOTE: The novel will be released by the fine folks at Quoir. You’ll be able to buy it anywhere but There will be a signed and numbered limited edition sold at the book that will come with extra goodies including classic Bloomington punk flyers, a bonus flash fiction called Hoosier Time Slip and surprises. If you buy and reserve a copy to pick-up at the party you’ll save $4. If you order a special edition to be mailed you will need that money back for shipping.
People’s Park Special edition, Paperback 220 pages $15. ($4.00 Shipping)
Includes trade paperback signed and number up to the first 1-50. (can be personalized and will be numbered based on when purchased online)
Two reprints of classic Bloomington punk show flyers. (random selected from 40 classic flyers)
One flyer comes with an exclusive flash fiction and the other with an essay about the writing of the novel.
https://venmo.com/u/David-Agranoff
PayPal: count.agranoff@gmail.com
People's Park in Bloomington Indiana, is not in radical Berkley but in the heart of the conservative Midwest. It was a home away from home for punks, skaters, metalheads, hippies, schizos, homeless vets, and anyone who didn’t fit in the mainstream. In the middle of the downtown business strip near the campus the park itself was out of place. None of the young kids who called the park home knew their spot wouldn’t have been there if the Klan had not bombed a black-owned business in 1969. One witness to the bombing was Electric Fred, often dismissed as crazy Fred listens to blasting static on his Walkman and writes conspiracy theories in his notebooks. To Justin and his friends it is all part of the world out of the mainstream they are discovering by hanging out in the park in the summer of 1989. Fred’s rantings about evil forces are easy to dismiss. As the forces of hate grow stronger the warnings scribbled in his hundreds of notebooks are coming true.
A true 80s coming of age Bizarro horror novel People’s Park is Stranger Things with punk rock and skateboards with a blend of mind-bending Sci-fi. Author David Agranoff did grow up in Indiana in the 80's and brings a personal touch to this genre defying novel has several mind-bending twists. At its heart People’s Park is a love letter to freaks and weirdos. David Agranoff is the author of 11 books and the long time co-host of the Dickheads podcast devoted to the work of Philip K. Dick.
“People’s Park is a wild sci fi coming of age story where the freaks, weirdos and punks get their time in the spotlight. And it just might be David Agranoff’s best work yet.” - Desmond Reddick Host of the Dread Media podcast
People’s Park is published by:
https://anti-oedipuspress.com/
About the Authors:
David Agranoff Grew up in Bloomington, Indiana hanging in the park that inspired this novel. His future wife worked at the Spoon serving the real-life Electric Fred. They live in San Diego with two Electric Fred’s notebooks and a house full of rescued animals. David is a novelist, screenwriter and a Horror and Science Fiction critic. He is the Splatterpunk and Wonderland book award nominated author of 11 books including the novels the WW II Vampire novel - The Last Night to Kill Nazis, and the science fiction novel Goddamn Killing Machines from CLASH BOOKS, The Cli-fi novel Ring of Fire, Punk Rock Ghost Story He co-wrote a novel Nightmare City (with Anthony Trevino) that he likes to pitch as The Wire if Clive Barker and Philip K Dick were on the writing staff. As a critic he has written more than a thousand book reviews on his blog Postcards from a Dying World which has recently become a podcast, featuring interviews with award-winning and bestselling authors such Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu and Josh Malerman. For the last five years David has co-hosted the Dickheads podcast, a deep-dive into the work of Philip K. Dick reviewing his novels in publication order as well as the history of Science Fiction. David’s non-fiction essays have appeared on Tor.com, NeoText and Cemetery Dance. He just finished writing a book, Unfinished PKD on the unpublished fragments and outlines of Philip K. Dick. He lives in San Diego where you can find him hooping in pick-up games and taking too many threes.
D. HARLAN WILSON is an award-winning American scholar, novelist, editor, literary critic, playwright, talkshow host, and college professor whose body of work bridges the aesthetics of literary theory with various genres of speculative fiction. Critically referred to as “a genre unto himself” with a “style that is completely without peer,” he is the author of over thirty book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, and hundreds of his stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies across the world in multiple languages. Wilson serves as reviews editor for Extrapolation, managing editor for Guide Dog Books, and editor-in-chief of Anti-Oedipus Press. With authors David Agranoff and Langhorne J. Tweed, he is also the co-host of the Dickheads Podcast, devoted to the life and writing of Philip K. Dick. For more biographical and bibliographic information, refer to Wilson’s entries at Goodreads, Amazon, Wikipedia and SF Encyclopedia.
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