Our next release: “This Coming Fall”, by Matthew Winston. This coming fall, by Pilotless Press.

How we would love to sleep on a bed that would grow around us to cover and forget us until our bodies rusted into the ground.

from Happy End, a photo project by Dietmar Eckell

via Transparent Cities

UK-based Boat Magazine presented Pilotless Press and MHLH in their Athens issue. Here’s what they had to say:

“Their dedication to print could be seen as merely nostalgic, but there is nothing old-fashioned about their publication. The design of the chapbook and the postcard it came with brandishes an image that resembles what I can only describe as a metal spring (one that is either bent or self-enveloping, depending on how you look at it). This image could be seen to reflect the Pilotless Press ethos: the infinitely intangible quality of that tricky little thing we call memory. The chapbook format could be considered much more post-modern than it is old-fashioned then, and they don’t plan to stop the experimenting there either. “We might at some point publish hardcover books, loose pages, folded napkins, or folios. No one knows”, said their Co-Pilot.”

Read the full review here.

There are many words that would attempt to describe the physical object in all its analog glory: aerodynamic, fuselageous, oleophobic, aluminum, spacious, comfortable, business class, airborne. It could be said that it lives inside a hangar and exercises in a wind tunnel. All of the above, though, would be in one way or another outright lies. In truth, the words that can describe it are the following: hand-sewn binding, 48 pages of pure fabrication, 80 gr., 300 gr., black and white like the best of photography, and, finally, sexy, the way book publishing ought to be.

Reserve your own copy today. Only 98 left from the original print run.

Dimitris John Raptis reviewed Allen Kechagiar’s The Mundane History of Lockwood Heights at alternality.gr. A brief excerpt:

“Το διήγημα του Άλεν Κεχάγιαρ στις μόλις 45 σελίδες του αφηγείται την επιστροφή ενός άντρα στην γενέτειρά του. Ξεφεύγει όμως από το κλισέ ταξίδι ενδοσκόπησης που είναι συνήθως τα homecomings, και μας παρουσιάζει την πόλη, που φιγουράρει πίσω από κάθε λέξη και κλέβει τον πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο από τον αφηγητή. Η πόλη παίζει το ρόλο του αντιήρωα, ενός όντος που δεν ξεκαθαρίζεται αν είναι κακόβουλο ή απλώς δεν ξέρει πώς να κάνει το καλό, που φυλακίζει τους πολίτες της.”

Read the full review here.