Joseph Young’s new book, Always Never Speaking: 50 Flash
Fictions, with Commentaries by the Author, is now available for preorder.
The book’s 50 very short stories articulates the lives of many
characters from numerous shades of life, telling of their pleasures and sorrows,
mysteries and loves, in sparing but vivid prose. These stories are collected
from among 10+ years of Young’s published and unpublished works. Young also
provides very brief commentaries on each of the stories and on the mercurial and
beguiling nature of flash fiction itself.
Young is self-publishing his book under the imprint RowHouse
Press. Although he is a big fan of traditional publishing houses, Young is compelled
with the ideas of DIY art making. Through such projects, artists get to bring
their aesthetic ideas not only to the making of their work, but also to the packaging
and design of their art and the assembly of novel and creative promotional tools.
As such, Young designed and made the cover art for his book,
filmed a book trailer,
and created a playlist
of sound collage and voice recordings of four stories from Always Never Speaking.
Always Never Speaking
is Young’s third full-length book. His award winning book of microfiction, Easter Rabbit, was released by Publishing
Genius in 2010, and he self-published his vampire novel, NAME, in 2012. His flash fiction has appeared in many literary journals.
This book is Young’s first major project since his MicroFiction
RowHouse in 2017. For MicroFiction RowHouse, Young installed numerous tiny stories
on the walls, ceilings, bedsheets, tablecloths, and many other surfaces of his
Baltimore rowhome to tell the story of a fictional family who might have once
lived in the home.
In the near future, Young will hold a book release party for
Always Never Speaking at MicroFiction
RowHouse, which has been the site of literary readings, music shows, workshops,
and other get-togethers over the past few years.
Always Never Speaking
is 220 pages in length, and sells for $15 on Young’s website. During
the preorder period for the book, Young will waive the shipping costs.
For media inquiries and requests for review copies, please see
the information below.
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What: Release of Always Never Speaking: 50 Flash Fictions,
with Commentaries by the Author
When: Book now available
for preorder for $15 on his website (free shipping
during preorder), 220 pages
Contact: Joseph
Young, youngjoseph21@gmail.com,
443-858-9855
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