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ALARM
by Mike Daily
A man and a woman in
Southern California wrangle
with relationship concerns in
the immediate aftermath of
the 9/11 terrorist attacks...
ALARM is the new novel from
Portland writer Mike Daily,
author of Valley.
ALARM was released July 2007
by Stovepiper Books Media. The
212-page novel includes two full-
length CDs—one studio, the other
live performances—featuring the
author's spoken words excerpted
from the novel performed with his
by Mike Daily
A man and a woman in
Southern California wrangle
with relationship concerns in
the immediate aftermath of
the 9/11 terrorist attacks...
ALARM is the new novel from
Portland writer Mike Daily,
author of Valley.
ALARM was released July 2007
by Stovepiper Books Media. The
212-page novel includes two full-
length CDs—one studio, the other
live performances—featuring the
author's spoken words excerpted
from the novel performed with his
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Mike Daily contributed a series of footnotes for Kevin Sampsell’s
2002 memoir, A Common Pornography.
Daily calls himself “the world’s most
fastidious collector of Kevin Sampselliana.”
Daily often performs his work in Portland,
OR, as vocalist for the experimental fiction
rock band, O’GRADY. Of Daily's first novel,
Valley (Bend Press 1998), RAY GUN
MAGAZINE wrote, “Mike Daily packs so
many stylish smash cuts into Valley, MTV
dulls by comparison.”
Get more Mike Daily:
Daily calls himself “the world’s most
fastidious collector of Kevin Sampselliana.”
Daily often performs his work in Portland,
OR, as vocalist for the experimental fiction
rock band, O’GRADY. Of Daily's first novel,
Valley (Bend Press 1998), RAY GUN
MAGAZINE wrote, “Mike Daily packs so
many stylish smash cuts into Valley, MTV
dulls by comparison.”
Get more Mike Daily:
- Download the press
release [PDF]
- Request a review copy of
ALARM [email]
band, O'GRADY. ALARM is a stripped-down novel of confusion,
alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love
letter to a friend and a promise to the future. The accompanying
full-length CDs serve as something like a soundtrack for the novel,
except more revealing, as they contain not music the narrator hears,
but music he makes.
alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love
letter to a friend and a promise to the future. The accompanying
full-length CDs serve as something like a soundtrack for the novel,
except more revealing, as they contain not music the narrator hears,
but music he makes.
The drugs don't work. The pubs don't work. The moonlight drives don't work. The books don't work. The
movies don't work. The records that used to work don't work.
He doesn't work.
He's at a point in his life where he doesn't know whether he should get a three-month trial subscription
to The Christian Science Monitor or twelve issues of Leg Show and a calendar.
He keeps moving.
movies don't work. The records that used to work don't work.
He doesn't work.
He's at a point in his life where he doesn't know whether he should get a three-month trial subscription
to The Christian Science Monitor or twelve issues of Leg Show and a calendar.
He keeps moving.
| [Excerpt from ALARM] |