KGB Bar

An evening with Mischief and Mayhem
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The collective came together in response to the increasingly homogenized books that corporate publishers and chain retailers have determined will sell the most copies. We recognize that there are readers who want to be challenged instead of placated. Mischief + Mayhem’s founders are Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua Furst, DW Gibson, Dale Peck and Choire Sicha.
The collective intends to promulgate writing unconcerned with having to please conservative editorial boards or corporate bookstore executives. It will also help writers earn a living wage without compromising their radical aesthetics.
Mischief + Mayhem’s titles will be produced only in electronic or print-on-demand editions, and will be available, initially at least, exclusively for purchase online from the publisher. This arrangement avoids the enormous waste of the current publishing system, which ships books to stores, fails to promote them, and then sees many of them returned, unsold, to the publisher.
“No book printed until it’s sold” is the unofficial motto of OR Books, which will publish the Mischief + Mayhem list. A genuinely new type of publishing company, OR sells direct to the customer in print-on-demand formats and e-books. There is no warehouse, no returns and no waste. The savings this makes possible enables unprecedented levels of marketing, both online and through regular channels. Once momentum has been created behind a title OR looks for rights deals with conventional publishing partners to make the book available in bookstores.
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Readers:
Joshua Furst will be reading from a novel in progress. The section he’s reading is called JOY.
Lisa Dierback will be reading from her novel (Mischief + Mayhem’s first book publication) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JENNY X.
DW Gibson will be reading from my forthcoming novel, AN ALL AMERICAN FIELD GUIDE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,