Format Press.
Format Press is the publishing arm of the Format Collective, an artist run production house based in Adelaide, South Australia. Format Press was founded in 2009 with the goal of producing quality publications written and designed by people outside the mainstream publishing industry.
Our inaugural publication is Ianto Ware's hilarious and poignant meditation on the history of cycling: "
21 Nights in July”. Easily the best book about competitive cycling and European Cultural Studies that Ianto Ware has ever written.
Our second publication, due out around Christmas 2009, is Stanley Mahoney’s “
The Complete Home for the Def and Other Stories”, a collection of reviews, short fiction and essays by Adelaide’s most beloved underachieving writer.
We’ll be launching “
21 Nights of July” at Feltspace, 12 Compton Street, Adelaide (right near the Markets, opposite Bliss Café) from 6 till 8 on Tuesday November 24th.
Yours,
Format Press
For general inquires and wholesale details email:
contact@format.net.au
21 Nights In July: The Physics and Metaphysics of Cycling
Ianto Ware, 2009
Price: $12 (Aust)
Postage: $3 in Australia, $5 international
For wholesale (orders over 5 copies) please get in contact.
Ostensibly a book about how amazing cycling is,
21 Nights In July is one nerd’s attempt to counteract the psychological damage of the modern age by riding all day and staying up late watching the Tour de France. Covering everything from urban planning, Queer theory, masculine privilege, the mythology of sport, obscure European bike punk bands, Roland Barthes, gear ratio choices and how to crash and land on your face,
21 Nights in July is the thinking cyclist’s critique of everything that sucks about the post-industrial world, and everything amazing about riding bikes.
Also available from the following stores:
Format Zine Store
23 Peel St
Adelaide
SA 5000
(open 3pm-6pm Monday-Friday)
New Internationalist
28 Austin St
Adelaide
SA 5000
(open 9am-6pm Monday-Friday)
Sticky Shop
DeGraves Subway
Shop 10 Campbell Arcade
Melbourne
VIC 3000
A Bird in the Hand
100a King Street,
Newcastle
NSW 2300
The Complete Home for the Def & Other Stories
Stan Mahoney, 2010
Price: $10 (Aust)
Postage: $3 in Australia, $5 international
Faux Gangsta Rap. Ambient Death Metal. Homicidal spoken word. Messianic alien conspiracies. Albums composed by séance. Albums composed entirely out of fart noises. Stan Mahoney discovers all of this and more as he ventures into the strange and unsettling world of Nigel Koop, also known as Home for the Def.
Elegantly bound and printed on high-quality stock, this limited first-edition print also features a collection of articles, essays and short fiction by one of Adelaide’s most original emerging writers.
