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Visit me online at www.kenwohlrob.com .

THE LOVE BOOK , a new collection of short stories by yours truly, now available in trade paperback from Bully Press.


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"You'll dig Ken Wohlrob's The Love Book, whether you like yourself or not. In fact, if you compare its cavalcade of kooks to you and the folk you call friends, it'll probably make you like yourself more."-- Miami Sun Post

"If The Velvet Underground's debut had been a short story collection, it may well have read like The Love Book."-- Mike Bennett , author of One Among The Sleepless and Hall of Mirrors

"These are stories that actually dare to be about things--that is, they have characters who are invested, committed, or otherwise trapped in certain strange or absurd lives who are looking for freedom and release. It's the basis of all great fiction, imo."-- Tim Hall , author of Half Empty and Triumph of the Won't

The Love Book contains five gritty, absurd and darkly comic tales. These are very modern fables, with a great heart, a very biting sense of humor, and fully-fleshed out characters that you can sink your teeth into.

    While recovering in a New Jersey motel room, an obese female pro-wrestler is confronted by the demons of her past, as old memories she long ago wanted to bury keep surfacing. An Italian man who has a fetish for Asian women meets his match when he starts dating an Asian woman with a fetish for Italian men. A woman who loses her right arm in a car accident tries to return to normal life and subjects herself to the horrors of online dating. A man obsessed with time has recurring dreams that he is always late for odd events and struggles with his psychiatrist to figure out the source of his fixation. An epidemic of suicide hits a retirement community in Ohio and one couple begins to question the value of their final days together.

A bit about me:

I was founder/editor of Bully Magazine, an online publication, from 1998-2003. In addition, I have been a contributor to The New York Press, Go Metric, Friction Magazine, FreeWilliamsburg, Motel, and AlcoholReviews.com. I've also participated in the Perpetual Motion Roadshow and the Needle Exchange Hour reading series.

In 2006, I became a co-founder--along with indie writers Tim Hall, Brian Cogan, and Mike Faloon--of the Blacksmiths For Literary Progress.

In addition, I've joined a select group of writers who have chosen to release their work as an audiobook podcast and also publish the full-text of my book for free as a download under Creative Commons.

You can visit my regular web site at www.kenwohlrob.com .

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My Blog

Download a new short story: The Metronome Winds Down

The single-story e-book crusade continues with the second installment of my special summer releases available to readers for only $1.99 each. You can now download "The Metronome Winds Down" in PDF, Ki...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:43:00 GMT

Coming Soon: The Metronome Winds Down

A brand new short story, available for $1.99.
Posted by on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:57:00 GMT

Book of the Week: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

He was a quiet man. Thats what they always say about the guy who one day picks up an axe and wipes out the whole family. Kees Popinga, the central character of Georges Simenons The Man Who Watched ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:00 GMT

Tim Hall Uplifts the Positivicals on Act-i-Vate

Good friend and fellow Blacksmith for Literary Progress Tim Hall has a brand new exclusive series live on Act-i-Vate titled "Uplift the Positivicals." Never one to do the same thing twice, this is Tim...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:27:00 GMT

Download a new short story for only $1.99

Who says storytelling can't survive in the digital age? Presenting, for your reading pleasure, a brand new, never before released short story titled "Job in Williamsburg" now available for a measely ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:35:00 GMT

Mavis Gallant reads "In Transit"

The first time I read "Paris Stories," a collection of Mavis Gallant's short stories released by NYRB, I was instantly bowled over.  Quickly, Gallant became one of my favorite short story writers, up ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:35:00 GMT

Book of the Week: The Rebels by Sándor Márai

I was lucky enough to read  Sándor Márais The Rebels while traveling through Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague. This was part of my standing rule of reading a novel from the country you are visiting w...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 09:56:00 GMT

Sat. May 9th: A Memorial Reading for Richard Leck

Good friend and fellow Blacksmith for Literary Progress Karen Lillis has organized a special memorial reading for our departed friend Richard Lick here in New York City on May 9th. Do stop by the Bowe...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:15:00 GMT

Six Deaths: A Holy One

Here is the final audio short story from "Six Deaths," titled "A Holy One," which is my personal favorite from the collection. Chalk it up to my blasphemous nature. If you don't...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:53:00 GMT

Six Deaths: An Artistic One

Here is the next audio short story from "Six Deaths," titled "An Artistic One," which kind of borrows a little bit from Balzac's "The Unknown Masterpiece." If you don't have fla...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:30:00 GMT