This Book Will Change Your Life - Fight Song by Joshua Mohr.

We are sitting here thinking it is time to become Joshua Mohr completists. And we say this not just because Mohr is one of our great storytellers. Though he is, and that alone would be reason enough. No, we say this because as we read his new release Fight Song we realized we haven't actually read one of his joints since Some Things That Mean The World To Me, and damn if these aren't some very different books. Things was all twisty and druggy and pain, and Fight Song is all mid-life and struggle and family. And yet both are quite trippy and full of searching characters who don't see that the answers they seek lie somewhere within. Which is to say that while thematically the stories aren't so very apart maybe, Mohr has dramatically changed the settings, context, and stakes, as all good storytellers do. Which is also to say that we are left wondering what happened in Mohr's Termite Parade and Damascus, and where, and now need to read them. Which when we do, will leave us as full-on Mohr completists. See what we did there? Nice. All that said, please do hit the Fight Song, it just might change your life.

Holy killer New York Times book review for Termite Parade by Joshua Mohr.

Yes, we know, we are quite book this week, but what can we do when so many TBWCYL, Inc. favorites have new joints coming out? Nothing, just spread the love, which brings us to Termite Parade, the new novel by TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Joshua Mohr, author of the quite sad and disturbing Some Things That Mean the World to Me, which has just received a most stellar review from the New York Times, yes that New York Times. Bravo sir, and quite cool, quite.

Friends! Interviews! Downloads! Compassion?

That may have been a lame play on words, though maybe not, we will definitely focus group that and get back to you. In the interim though, we came across two things we want to share with you from and about two friends and writers we are fans of. First off, Joshua Mohr author of Some Things That Meant The World To Me, which we recently riffed on here at the blog, has a great interview up at SFGate, very nice, do check it out, and second, Ken Wohlrob of the Love Book fame, also riffed on here at blog, has a new story, Job in Williamsburg, which we read some version of along the way, also very nice, that he is releasing as a downloadable e-book, the first apparently of monthly dowloads he intends to make available, so do check this out as well. We would add here, that both of these shout-outs do tie into this now ongoing diatribe of ours, books are not dead, and writers are not obsolete, but we do need to work it. Cool?

Some much appreciated praise for Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine.

We want to offer many thanks to Joshua Mohr author of TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Some Things That Meant The World To Me for the kind review of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine he recently posted to Goodreads. It is much appreciated and it can be read in its entirety below. For real. Just look. There you go.

"Ben Tanzer has a playwright's ear for dialogue, which I mean as a huge compliment. And he showcases it often in this quick novel. The main characters wax about their zeitgeist, making humorous and devastating observations, often only lines removed from one another. No easy task."

Some Things That Meant The World To Me by Joshua Mohr.

We have only recently met author Joshua Mohr, and electronically at that, but after reading about his soon to be released debut novel Things That Meant The World To Me we were quite geeked to take a look. Having done so, what do we think? Strange and sad, endlessly disturbing and very, very wrong. In other words, a must read. We hope you check it out.