Two Dollar Radio : Books too loud to ignore: FREQUENCIES.

FREQUENCIES: Volume 1
Essays by Blake Butler, Joshua Cohen, Tracy Rose Keaton, Scott McClanahan; Interview with Anne Carson
$10, ISBN 978-1-937512-01-9, 102 pages
* READ 'A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MCCLANAHAN FAMILY' * ORDER FOR $10 * SUBSCRIBE FOR $15 To request a galley, write to eric[at]twodollarradio.com.
(Coming September 2012)

comfort or the lack of it is not the point, thinking is the point
to cause people to think is not easy
to cause myself to think is not easy
lack of ease generates a certain kind of alertness that is more alive to me
-Anne Carson, in an interview in Frequencies: Vol.1

A writer stands outside a story yelling, “Open Sesame!” and the story, as if a seed, opens. And treasure is found inside. That treasure, of course, is just another story, and it all begins again….
-Joshua Cohen, from his essay ‘Open Sesame’ in Frequencies: Vol.1

Frequencies: Volume 1 features original work by Joshua Cohen on the origins of the phrase ‘Open Sesame,’ Blake Butler and Morgan Kendall on the disintegration of the mind, Tracy Rose Keaton on groupie-dom and consumer culture, an interview with Anne Carson, and an excerpt from Scott McClanahan’s forthcoming memoir, Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place (Two Dollar Radio, March 2013).

FREQUENCIES: Volume 2
Essays by Sara Finnerty, Roxane Gay, Alex Jung, Aaron Shulman, Kate Zambreno
$10, ISBN 978-1-937512-08-8, 160 pages
* PRE-ORDER FOR $10 * SUBSCRIBE FOR $15 To request a galley, write to eric[at]twodollarradio.com.
(Coming April 2013)

Niche dating sites are interesting. You can go to JDate or Christian Mingle or Black People Meet or any number of dating websites expressly designed for birds of a feather to flock together. If you have certain criteria, you can find people who look like you or share your faith or enjoy having sex in furry costumes. No one is alone in their interests, not anymore.
-Roxane Gay, from her essay ‘Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me.’ in Frequencies: Vol.2

It interprets the Thai formulation of sexuality as, essentially, heteroflexible. You can have sex with any man you want! The fantasy is enough to power an industry.
-Alex Jung, from his essay 'Thailand's Great Gay Imaginarium' in Frequencies: Vol.2

Frequencies: Volume 2 features original work by Sara Finnerty on ghosts, Roxane Gay on issues of belonging in Black America, Alex Jung on the gay sex trade in Thailand, Aaron Shulman on a frontier town of Guatemala, Kate Zambreno on Barbara Loden, and more to come!
FREQUENCIES: Volume 3
Essays by Antonia Crane, D. Foy, Lawrence Shainberg, and more!
$10, ISBN 978-1-937512-15-6, 142 pages
* PRE-ORDER FOR $10 * SUBSCRIBE FOR $15 To request a galley, write to eric[at]twodollarradio.com.
(Coming October 2013)

[Norman Mailer] likes to say that all novelists are actors at heart. Over the years, it’s been a useful metaphor… a reference to the voices and identities he explores at his desk, but tonight he’s pushing it into reality. He’s an actor unqualified and the role he plays is Hemingway, the writer whose voice he sought to emulate when he discovered it more than sixty years ago, the writer whose suicide some forty years ago, made him realize, as if for the first time, the immeasurable risk of the profession he had chosen.
-Lawrence Shainberg, from his essay ‘Writing on the Road’ in Frequencies: Vol.3

At once a code, an essence, an ideal, an ethic, a force, a thing, and a state, krumpness for the krumper is in all seriousness akin to godliness, bestowed upon the krumper, or so real krumpers say, by no less than God Himself… The youths in this scene, every last one, are so far down in the folds of krumpness, the world of their daily existence has been subsumed to them themselves—for this brief time, they are the world.
-D. Foy, from his essay 'This is Not a Trend: Krump and the Ko-opting of Krumpness' in Frequencies: Vol.3

The latest installment of Frequencies follows Mailer and George Plimpton to Vienna, for a staged reading of ‘Zelda,’ based on correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds; D. Foy tracks krump, from street-art to reality television; Antonia Crane on being down-and-out in San Francisco, and a discussion between photographer Lynn Davis and husband, Rudolph Wurlitzer.

Volume 1 of Frequencies is made possible in large part through the generous sponsorship of Riley & Sons, LLC, General Store & Mill, centrally-located in Licking County and proudly serving Ohioans since 1951.

Riley & Sons is ranked #2 in central Licking County customer satisfaction survey 2-years running.

(Also, please keep in mind that the stumps in front of the General Store & Mill are reserved for the old-timers only.)

(And, also, the microwave is for products purchased in the General Store & Mill only. Customers using the microwave may be asked to kindly show a receipt of purchase to the store-clerk.)

(And also, while the bright light in the microwave might prove a good distraction for small children, children should not be allowed to watch the microwave while in use because of the article that Mrs. Theodore Riley read in Ladies Home Journal a couple years back. Curious customers may ask to borrow the article as it is kept in a manila folder beside the register.)

Back to Top