Lit Wiz: Which Indie Press Are You?

Are you classic but contemporary like Melville House? Dark and poetic like Caketrain? Covered with fur like A Strange Object? Find out here!

If you’re interested in any of the books featured in this quiz, click below to check them out on Powell’s!

• ADULT ONSET by Anne Marie MacDonald
• MISADVENTURE by Nicholas Grider
• ‘SSES” ‘SSES” “SSEY’ by Chaulky White
• CAT OUT OF HELL by Lynne Truss
• US CONDUCTORS by Sean Michaels
• HALF OUT WHERE by Joseph Aguilar
• RED OR DEAD by David Peace
• THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL by Kelly Luce
• Caketrain Issue 12 by the Editors
• THE UTOPIA OF RULES by David Graeber
• THE DARK NET by Jamie Bartlett
• THE GHOST NETWORK by Catie DiSabato
• WITTGENSTEIN JR by Lars Iyer
• THE WEIRDNESS by Jeremy Bushnell
• A BOOK SO RED by Rachel Levy
• NEVERS by Megan Martin
• THE LUMINOL REELS by Laura Ellen Joyce
• NO MOON by Julie Reverb
• OUR SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree
• OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS by Claire Fuller
• THE WILDS by Julia Elliott

Besides these five, there are so many amazing indie presses we love to glom onto that we just couldn’t fit into our quiz. To name a few (in no particular order)…

OR Books | Other Press | Europa Editions | Two Dollar Radio | Archipelago Books | Soft Skull/Counterpoint | Dalkey Archive | McSweeney’s | New Directions | Overlook Press | Semiotext(e) | Dzanc Books | Fantagraphics | Muumuu House | Deep Vellum

…the list goes on, and the wonders never cease. Glom onto indie presses and indie bookstores and keep the love of reading alive!