Etiquette
A close and personal look at the way we interact in a city in 2019. Written just before the pandemic it now sits as an anthrourban quickdive into the Before. By me, Joey Truman.
Sequestered
Just your everyday accounting of a pandemic during the the first three months of lockdown in the epicenter. New York City. 2020. What we ate and did and felt. By me, Joey Truman.
Killing the Math II
Killing the Math (Joey's first memoir!) may have ended, but Joey's story didn't. Picking up where he left off in his first memoir, Killing the Math II offers Joey's distinct and direct approach to coming-of-age in 1990s nowhere Wyoming. Chronicling the heartbreakingly candid longings of a teenage boy learning the limits of male friendship, the pleasures you hate to admit of family (and four brothers), and ultimately, the intensity of realizing you can be good at something.
COOKING COCKROACH:
A Guide To Modern Poverty
Joey Truman, today’s “poet of the appetites,” pays tribute to food, and all who have eaten it, in Whiskey Tit’s first foray into food writing, Cooking Cockroach. From dented cans and found foods to homemade spices, immerse yourself into methods, tips, and poor person’s techniques in making delicious food without delicious amounts of dollars. From taco burgers and hot pot to campfire chicken legs, Joey wastes not a dime nor a morsel while charming the masses with his one-of-a-kind kitchen skills.
Because starving to death is no excuse for a lousy meal.
PARLAY
A weirdly beautiful return trip to the alt-universe of postman Whitey Whitlock (protaganist of Postal Child) as he prepares his crew of pirate birds to set sail from Brooklyn—sex, drugs, pipes, hickies, and an unexpected sweetness offer a new kind of novel.
Postal Child
Joey Truman's debut novel with Whiskey Tit carves open a space of neo-realist fantasia that moves with such specific detail between the two forms, it's an utterly singular reading experience.
The story of a kid from Brooklyn named Whitey Whitlock who has no luck on his side—except for two things—he can talk to birds and knows what he wants to be before he grows up: a postal delivery man.
Disorienting, alternately dark and light, and redemptive in ways you've likely never felt before.
Killing the Math
Continuing the tradition of American coming-of-age memoir, Joey takes a slice of his teenage years as one of five brothers in 1990s nowhere Wyoming—and with direct descriptives and sense of place, renders a moment in time rich with the magic and transformative banality of adolescence and everyday desire.
KinderRinder
An interior play-by-play of a Nazi soldier moving towards the only choice he has left.
As his death train rumbles on, this horrifyingly relevant consideration of honor traverses an unexplored corner of WW II consciousness in a tight, disturbing tale.