Next Generation Subscription Book Club

Powell's Book Store in Portland, OR, has a new groovy subscription book club called Indiespensable where every six weeks you get new independent books and sometimes even signed first editions for only $39.95 per shipment.

From their site:

Powell's subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire. Plus, every package is stocked with exciting surprises: bonus DVDs or CDs, prepublication copies of books we're looking forward to, mugs, posters, chocolate... See gifts from previous editions. Subscribe now to assure yourself a copy of Volume 9!

VOLUME 9

Ships on March 18, 2009
Sunnyside / A Day's Pleasure
by Glen David Gold
(Knopf)

Limited edition, autographed, hardcover chapbook of "A Day's Pleasure," the first part of Sunnyside (56 pages). Printed on a heavy cream stock with 4/c frontispiece by artist J. D. King, two pen and ink interior illustrations by Patrick McDonnell (the creator of Mutts), and cased with a 6/c silk-screened image on cloth. Available only to Indiespensable subscribers. Advance Reader's Copy of Sunnyside — more than a month before the book will be available in stores. Special treats hand-picked by our staff

"A breathless stupendous novel that recreates both a young brash America on the verge of becoming itself, and Chaplin, one of its most bewitching quixotic citizens. From lighthouse to Hollywood to starlets to war to stardom to madness to genius Gold's startling narrative carries us across the world and back. Gold proves himself yet again to be the hungriest craftiest funniest and most humane novelist we have." Junot Díaz

Read Glen David Gold's essay about making the chapbook A Day's Pleasure.