Bully by Dennis Rourke Bullied by Peter Loomis 50 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Nathan Grant Ashcroft Covers design by Nell Kirwan Cover photos by Craig Nunes One tough kid and another tough kid and two stories, told side-by-side, about…
Becoming Monster by Everett Brandt 63 pages. Tape-bound. Cover and Book Design by Grant Ashcroft. An essay in nineteen parts, where writer-critic Everett Brandt investigates how a monster is not born but formed. What are the circumstances that can turn…
Five years ago this summer, we put out our first volume: Owen Fairbank’s Parables & Lies. We sold so many copies it’s now sold out, which is a shame, but that success let us publish fourteen more pamphlets by both…
Future Landscapes by Marnie Vail After you died, I walked home. Left the car parked at the hospital. The autumn leaves would tuck it in. Horizontal late afternoon light exploded only one-half of my body, orange. The weight of your…
Those Who Know by Julian Ferris Fortune favors those who know, the pamphlet said. The end of the world is coming. The pamphlets littered the grounds of the school like old snow. They lay dirtied by hundreds of muddy shoes.…
Bête Noire by Colleen Ashby Strangers started touching my belly last week before Gene took notice. Everyone wished me well. Their hands gravitated from shelves and purses and pockets to reach out to me. They asked if I was married.…
Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it Notes by Martin Fielder 62 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Grant Ashcroft Winner of The Cupboard’s First-Ever Contest There are ghosts who have never died. Martin Fielder’s Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it Notes…
7 Greyhounds by Wade Lundgren 40 pages. Tape-bound. Cover and Book Design by Grant Ashcroft. Continuing The Cupboard’s tradition of publishing public-transit lit is Wade Lundgren’s new collection. It’s seven stories, seven encounters, seven long trips on buses through America.…
From its inception, the mission of The Cupboard has been to get quality writing in readers’ hands as easily and inexpensively as possible. So we kept our books small, pocketable. We used affordable printing methods. And we set up a…