The AMS bankruptcy fallout continues. Right now two great indie presses McSweeney’s and Soft Skull are trying to raise some ready cash by offering their books at radically reduced prices. According to the McSweeney’s announcement, their press lost approximately $130,000 in earnings as a result of the bankruptcy.

McSweeney’s sale, going on for the next week, includes an auction of contributor art (Dzama!) and other one-of-a-kind items. Soft Skull’s sale continues until June 30th.

From McSweeney’s, Tingle Alley recommends picking up Yannick Murphy’s Here They Come (I nominated this book for the LBC last spring; discussion here — note the pretty pony on the cover, which makes it a great gift for a post-Black Beauty reader), Dustin Long’s Icelander, Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, Harry Stephen Keeler’s The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, and Chris Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital (not on sale but what the hell, go for it). You can also pick up a copy of Salvador Plascencia’s People of Paper right now for less than the paperback.

From Soft Skull, Tingle Alley suggests anything by Lydia Millet (particularly Oh Pure and Radiant Heart), Douglas A. Martin’s Branwell, Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown (an LBC nomination this time around), and Jenny Davidson’s Heredity. Outside of fiction, you may also want to cruise Lisa Carver’s Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir (unfortunately, the collected Rollerderby looks to be no longer available) . There’s lots of good stuff here — take a look around.