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"[A] wry and unnerving story of bad love gone rotten. [Mohr] has a generous understanding of his characters,
whom he describes with an intelligence and sensitivity that pulls you in. This is no small achievement."
-The New York Times Book Review
"The book is similar to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: the most crucial action serves as a
portal to and wellspring for the various psychologies of its characters."
-San Francisco Chronicle
Termite Parade is the second novel from San Francisco Chronicle best-selling author,
Joshua Mohr, a mature look at the honest side of human interaction.
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"Brave and unforgettable."
-Los Angeles Times
"Drive[s] straight into the Zen void at the heart of the classic road novel."
-Bookforum
"Scott Bradfield has not simply staked out new literary terrain . . . he has mapped and colonized
an entire new planet."
-Michael Chabon
In this fifth novel, Scott Bradfield delivers an arresting and unsentimental childhood voice.
The People Who Watched Her Pass By is often hilarious as well as startling, and a poignant new
contribution to the body of literature of a respected prose craftsman.
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A Favorite Book of 2009
-Kassie Rose, WOSU
"As a parable of modern China, [The Cave Man] is chilling."
-Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe
"Like Solzhenitsyn,[Xiao] has transformed his camp experience into sublimely vivid fiction.
The Cave Man is as luminous as it is severe, and it will have a transformative effect
on those fortunate enough to read it."
-Jay Neugeboren, Bookforum
The Cave Man is an exceptionally moving and fascinating portrait of a brutalized
man wrongly imprisoned during Chairman Mao’s rule.
Click for The Cave Man page.
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"Wurlitzer is one of the most unique and fascinating American writers."
-Dennis Cooper
Flats is a post-apocalyptic exploration of the human self. Quake chronicles
the unraveling of society after an earthquake strikes ’60s Los Angeles.
Both are essential reading.
Click for Flats + Quake page.
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"[Nog's] combo of Samuel Beckett syntax and hippie-era freakiness mapped out new literary
territory for generations to come."
-Michael Miller,
Time Out New York
Originally published by Random House in 1968, Nog tells the tale of a man adrift
through the American West, armed with nothing more than his own three pencil-thin memories
and an octopus in a bathysphere.
Click for Nog page.
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#8 of 10 Terrific Reads of 2009
-O, The Oprah Magazine
A Best Book of the Year
-The Nervous Breakdown
Following a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, Some Things That
Meant the World to Me is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic,
and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American literature.
Click for Some Things page.
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"An uproarious, confounding, turbocharged fantasia that manages, alongside all its
imaginative bravura, to hold up to our globalized epoch the fun-house mirror it deserves."
-James Gibbons, Bookforum
Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to
this side-splitting spin on Fu Manchu.
Click for The Shanghai Gesture page.
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"Explores with ruthless honesty a woman come undone."
-Erin McKnight, Bookslut-
"Powerful."
-Paul Kolsby, LA Times
In the follow-up to her acclaimed debut, which drew comparisons from critics to The Bell
Jar and The Awakening, Amy Koppelman delivers an aggressive and unnerving
portrait of a modern suburban woman.
Click for I Smile Back page.
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"[A] Vonnegut-worthy satire."
-Joshua Glenn, Boston Globe-
A comedic, Orwellian journey through our hyper-technological age,
where everyone has a blog, where media endorsements mean everything, where entire
societal movements are determined by chess players at major corporations, where MIT
professors debate the tenants of Nasalism, where even our most natural desires
can be turned into drugs and patented.
Click for Crust page.
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"Janet Beard weaves a rich tale of family ties lost and rediscovered, hearts
broken and mended, and secrets with the power to imprison - or set her
characters free. Beneath the Pines is a thoroughly
engaging read by an enormously gifted storyteller." -Julie Mars
Beneath the Pines examines a Southern family's conflicting values about sex, religion, and the past.
Click for Beneath the Pines page.
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* Top 10 Book of 2008. -Queerty
* Standout Book of 2008.
-Inland Empire Weekly
"Francis Levy is our generation’s D.H Lawrence, Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski rolled into one."
-Bill Kohlhaase, Inland Empire Weekly
A comedic and absurdist portrait of a modern day romance.
Click for Erotomania: A Romance page.
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* Best Book of 2008.
-Time Out New York
* Gold Medal for Literary Fiction.
-ForeWord Magazine
A classic tale of the western frontier about a mountain man whose
view of life has been challenged by a curse from a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he
inadvertently murdered.
Click for The Drop Edge of Yonder page.
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"Jay Neugeboren traverses the Hitlerian tightrope with all the skill and formal daring
that have made him one of our most honored writers of literary fiction."
-Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times-
Heavily-lauded historical fiction from a respected and revered prose craftsman.
Click for 1940 page.
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"Hanson is effortlessly sharp, insightful and funny."
-Publishers Weekly-
Despite playing in influential punk bands, Ivor faces the fact that window cleaning isn't his day job -
it's his only job. A tale of risk, punk music, voyeurism, identity, and clean windows.
Click for Life on the Ledge page.
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* San Diego Book Award Finalist.
"A breathtaking read. Even if you're not a football
fan the book offers a glimpse into a world totally unauthorized by the NFL. Recommended."
-Espresso-
An insider's peek at minor league football in the early '80s, an entire netherworld that most
people never had the opportunity to see, let alone experience.
Click for Vagabond Blues page.
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* Notable Book of 2006.
-January Magazine
"Smith writes with force and clarity."
-Chicago Tribune-
A novel soaked in sex, drugs, and tequila, The Drummer is a stiff cocktail of crotch
-grabbing hair-metal and New Orleans noir.
Click for The Drummer page.
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