Welcome to Astrophil Press' New Website!


Posted at 12:00 on Feb 8th
By Duncan Barlow
We've got our new website up and running! We're very excited about this and we'd like to thank our friends Jeremy (who did an amazing job of creating a solid and user friendly back end to the site) and Jonathan (who took my feeble design idea and improved upon it)! We are greatly indebted to our friends!

As you may have noticed, Eric Olson's book is now available for order. Both he and David Gruber have kept us very busy packing books for our mail order. We are delighted to have had such lovely books as our launch. Moreover, we're delighted that people have come to the site in such numbers and ordered the books. I suppose word has started to spread about what good books they are. I'm constantly receiving emails from people saying that they have recommended the books to friends. As an independent press, it is wonderful news to hear because our livelihood primarily depends upon your support and word of mouth recommendation. We're trying to keep our books' costs and mailing costs down to keep them affordable.

I am happy to announce that we are introducing a slogan contest. We need a good slogan for our press. We want to start sending book marks out with our mailings, but we don't have a good slogan. Please submit your idea for a good slogan on our contact page.  The winner of the competition will receive our first two books free! If you have our first two books, you will have a choice of our next two books or duplicate copies of our first two books! Please limit your entry to one per person.

Finally, we aim to have guest bloggers on our site, so please keep coming back and see which writer/publisher/academic is posting on our blog with us!

Again, thank you for your support!

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Featured Books


Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan By Keith Abbott

In Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer’s dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture, hippie label that haunted him until his suicide in 1984. Brautigan’s tight prose inspired authors such as Haruki Murakami and his experimentation with the line won him accolades from authors like Ishmael Reed, Raymond Carver, and Michael McClure. His work is highly influential and Abbott draws a clear connection between Brautigan’s life and his writing. This book is essential for anyone who is interested in the work of Richard Brautigan. Raymond Carver writes, "Truly the best thing I've ever seen written of the man."


The Procession of Mollusks By Eric Olson

If Fletch took Lovecraft to see a movie and it turned out to be a double feature—'Slugs: muerte viscosa' and 'The Monster that Challenged the World'--this post-genre romp is what might have been extracted from their post-movie dreams. This is a smart, funny, and (most importantly) irreverently weird book.
—Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain and The Wavering Knife.


Sleepers' Republic By David Gruber

In David Gruber’s Sleepers’ Republic nature is dreaming, and we are its dreams. Time is slowed down or speeded up: “suddenly, the sun / gives way to stars.” And: “What we knew moves sudden / without warning / throwing us to the ground / an emptiness in the sea / The air above us filled with fruit.” It may be that love “offers the opposite of a kiss,” yet Gruber’s upended universe is nonetheless an exhilarating medium in which the reader can both swim and breathe.
— John Ashbery author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Notes from the Air




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