An Unbeatable Strategy of Failure

Caprice Reader #4 is here!

An Unbeatable Strategy of Failure explores the joy, the pain and the mystery of things not working out as planned.

Featuring words and pictures from 10 emerging American voices, this beautiful book, the 4th in Caprice Books' line of pocket-sized readers, is available for only $6 (+S&H) on LuLu.com.

Call for submissions! Caprice Reader #4: "An Unbeatable Strategy of Failure"

Caprice Books is now considering submissions for the 4th in our series of handy, excitement-packed, literary pocketbooks.

We are seeking all kinds of write-y and picture-y stuff on the theme of failure. There is practically no limit to what we will consider. If it fits in an email, it can probably fit in one of our books.

Deadline is November 15th.

Submit items to capricebooks@gmail.com. 

For complete details take a long, squinty look at the picture below! Thanks! We look forward to seeing your work!

This Motel is a Museum

"Pay by the week" motels are a vanishing relic of old Downtown Las Vegas. Aging architecture holds little value in Sin City. Considered vital by many low-income and transitioning citizens, they are quickly being bought, boarded and hipster-fied by Las Vegas' dubious, Zappo's funded Downtown Project.

The Town Lodge Motel was previously a home for locals with no credit, no connections or limited means. It was shut down, boarded up and transformed into an art exhibition space for the 2013 Life is Beautiful event.

The day before it was whitewashed, photographer Phil Barcio documented the inherent elegance of its beautiful decay.

This Motel is a Museum is available on Lulu.com.

the dust NEVER settles

Caprice Books is proud to present Caprice Reader #3: The Dust Never Settles, a beautiful, hilarious, heartbreaking collection of new work from 13 emerging voices in fiction, poetry and visual art. Featuring cover art by Erik Otto, The Dust Never Settles is the perfect companion for your next picnic on the roof, and is available only in a-book.*

Buy a copy here!

(The Dust Never Settles is the third in the Caprice Books line of collaborative pocketbooks and features the poetry of Sunnylyn Thibadeaux, Micah Ballard, Madeline Daniel, Jeffrey Shantz and Prince Alvior, new fiction by Phillip Barcio, and Frank Morelli, essays from Terra Haywood, Bernard F. Barcio L.H.D., and Avery Ebeneezer Salo, and the art of Erik Otto, Dan Thompson and Francie Taylor.)
*Actual book

Caprice Reader #2 is here!

Presenting Powerless Point, a collection of new work from nine contemporary writers and one artist.

Featuring poetry from Dave Belden, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux and Joshua Baratz, fiction and essay from Phillip Barcio, Madeline Daniel, Jake Brinton, Bernard Barcio, Joshua Baratz and Kevin Sullivan and ink drawings from Rachel Pascua, Powerless Point is the second in Caprice's line of pocket-sized readers.

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Presenting Television Hates Itself, the new pocket book from Caprice Books, featuring 56 reasons why television hates itself.

Buy a copy here!

Like all great American books, Television Hates Itself began as an art installation. The 56 reasons television hates itself were projected as a powerpoint presentation onto obsolete teleprompters that were hung by chains on the wall in a darkened hallway outside Big Car Gallery in Indianapolis.

At the opening reception for the installation, thirteen handmade copies of a Television Hates Itself book were offered for sale. Three sold. The rest were given away to random people.

Later that year the piece resurfaced on a tiny television hanging from the ceiling in the corner of JinJonJim's living room in Bloomington, Indiana, at an art barbecue called KookOut. Then the Icelandic band Sigur Ros gave the author permission to use one of their songs in a YouTube presentation of the work (as long as it wasn't a commercial venture). So far that video has received 248 views. It can be viewed here.

Caprice Books now proudly presents an incarnation of the project that will fit in your back pocket, lovingly complemented by artwork from Mike Morelli.

To satisfy Phillip Barcio's promise to Sigur Ros that Television hates Itself is not a commercial venture, Caprice Books promises that all profit from the sale of this book will go to the author's favorite charity, meaning it will be given to homeless people.

Click here to buy a copy of Television Hates Itself today!