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Get in If You Want to Live
The Twin Cities� newest, boundary-breaking
publishing house, PAPER DARTS PRESS,
announces its debut project. Get In If You Want
To Live is a collection of 19 fiction short-shorts
by Minneapolis writer John Jodzio, author of
2010’s If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home.
Jodzio is a past recipient of the Loft-McKnight
Fellowship award and his work has been
featured in numerous publications, including
McSweeney’s, Opium, and Minnesota Monthly.
From bears hooked on sex outside the species,
to hookers hooked on a neighbor’s bomb chili
recipe, Jodzio shanghais readers in the course
of only a few pages and sucks them into 19
different gonzo worlds populated by intensely
unapologetic characters. Pushing this project far
beyond the ordinary, each story in the collection
will be accompanied by a specially curated
illustration from hand-selected local and
international artists, including Jennifer Davis,
Ruben Ireland, and Andres Guzman among
others. The entire book will be designed using
the eye-popping aesthetic and inventive graphics
that Paper Darts Magazine is known for.
With a release date set for early fall,Get In If You
Want To Live represents the first step of a unique
approach to creative publishing, based on the
intimate collaboration between an author/artist/
publisher trifecta. Through unconventional
printing practices, Paper Darts Press aims to
pioneer the new Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-
Together publishing revolution.
publishing house, PAPER DARTS PRESS,
announces its debut project. Get In If You Want
To Live is a collection of 19 fiction short-shorts
by Minneapolis writer John Jodzio, author of
2010’s If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home.
Jodzio is a past recipient of the Loft-McKnight
Fellowship award and his work has been
featured in numerous publications, including
McSweeney’s, Opium, and Minnesota Monthly.
From bears hooked on sex outside the species,
to hookers hooked on a neighbor’s bomb chili
recipe, Jodzio shanghais readers in the course
of only a few pages and sucks them into 19
different gonzo worlds populated by intensely
unapologetic characters. Pushing this project far
beyond the ordinary, each story in the collection
will be accompanied by a specially curated
illustration from hand-selected local and
international artists, including Jennifer Davis,
Ruben Ireland, and Andres Guzman among
others. The entire book will be designed using
the eye-popping aesthetic and inventive graphics
that Paper Darts Magazine is known for.
With a release date set for early fall,Get In If You
Want To Live represents the first step of a unique
approach to creative publishing, based on the
intimate collaboration between an author/artist/
publisher trifecta. Through unconventional
printing practices, Paper Darts Press aims to
pioneer the new Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-
Together publishing revolution.
70 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2011
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About the author
John Jodzio
10Ìýbooks68ÌýfollowersJohn Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. Find out more at johnjodzio.net
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April 24, 2013
Brilliant Combo Of Flash Fiction And Art
If you see me walking down the street, chuckling to myself, it's probably because I'm thinking of the story "Recently I Passed a Kidney Stone that Looks Like a Shark's Tooth." I will never stop laughing at that story. And it's only the first story in this book.
If you see me walking down the street, chuckling to myself, it's probably because I'm thinking of the story "Recently I Passed a Kidney Stone that Looks Like a Shark's Tooth." I will never stop laughing at that story. And it's only the first story in this book.
January 24, 2022
A visual and narrative delight.
November 19, 2011
Some of these short shorts made me laugh aloud: Javier, The Monroe Family Bed Wishes to Die. Some of made me feel uncomfortable, like those with hookers and lots of cursing. Most of them were narrated by a creepy guy, which was alternately funny and uncomfortable, as was the art that accompanied each short. The book itself is a lovely object, and comfortable or not, it's funny and provoking, and I consumed it in an afternoon.
November 27, 2011
I'm a real fan of Jodzio's writing and there's a lot to like about Get In If You Want to Live. The book is an amazing art object though at times, the art dominates the prose. There are many moments where I laughed out loud while reading this collection but at times, the humor felt a bit one-note and the characters blurred from one story to the next. Absurdist fiction is all about balance and sometimes, there simply wasn't enough balance in these stories.
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October 17, 2011Read an excerpt from the book and an interview with John Jodzio in the October/November 2011 issue of Shelf Magazine.
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