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  • 1940 (Out of Print) QUICK VIEW 1940 (Out of Print) a novel by
    Jay Neugeboren

    "A beautifully realized work of imagined history."
    Los Angeles Times

    A mysterious novel of ideas, centered around Hitler's childhood physician, set on the eve of World War II. Out of Print!

    1940 (Out of Print)

    a novel by
    Jay Neugeboren


    $ 15.00

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  • 808s & Otherworlds QUICK VIEW 808s & Otherworlds a collection of essays and poetry by
    Sean Avery Medlin

    "Most Anticipated"
    Lambda Literary, Paperback Paris

    "Don’t sleep on the unpredictable 808s & Otherworlds… an elegant mash of memoir, poetry, tales of appropriation, thoughts on Black masculinity, Hulk, Kanye.
    —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune


    From the gut-wrenchingly real stories of young lovers unmythed by segregation or former classmates appropriating Black culture, to the fantastic settings of Hip-Hop songs and comic characters, Medlin weaves a tapestry of worlds and otherworlds while composing a love letter to family and self, told to an undeniably energetic beat.

    808s & Otherworlds

    a collection of essays and poetry by
    Sean Avery Medlin


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    * "September’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" —Lambda Literary
    * "Most-Anticipated New LGBTQIA+ Books of 2021" —Paperback Paris

    “Like the light of an event horizon, this work races toward and struggles against the gravity of Blackness. Lovechild of Sun Ra and Sailor Moon, Sean Avery Medlin sings into the narrow space between hope and rage, bridging political and pop culture galaxies. If our suburbs have become burnt-out satellites circling a world long lost to racism, this book is our S.O.S., transmitting radio waves for searchers and survivors. What an expansive and timely poetic voice!”
    —Amaud Jamaul Johnson, author of Imperial Liquor, Red Summer, and Darktown Follies

    808s & Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised, Medlin interrogates the effects of media misrepresentation on the performance of Black masculinity. Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture and systemic anti-Blackness, 808s & Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and dehumanized.

    From the gut-wrenchingly real stories of young lovers unmythed by segregation or former classmates appropriating Black culture, to the fantastic settings of Hip-Hop songs and comic characters, Medlin weaves a tapestry of worlds and otherworlds while composing a love letter to family and self, told to an undeniably energetic beat.

  • A conversation between Billy-Ray Belcourt and Hanif Abdurraqib QUICK VIEW A conversation between Billy-Ray Belcourt and Hanif Abdurraqib
    Billy-Ray Belcourt is the author of A History of My Brief Body, and Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us.

    A conversation between Billy-Ray Belcourt and Hanif Abdurraqib


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  • A conversation between Johanna Hedva and Asher Hartman QUICK VIEW A conversation between Johanna Hedva and Asher Hartman
    Johanna Hedva is the author of On Hell and Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, and Asher Hartman is the author of Mad Clot on a Holy Bone.

    A conversation between Johanna Hedva and Asher Hartman


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  • A Conversation with author Melanie Finn QUICK VIEW A Conversation with author Melanie Finn
    Melanie Finn is the celebrated author of The Gloaming (2016), The Underneath (2018), and The Hare (2021).

    A Conversation with author Melanie Finn


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  • A Door Behind a Door QUICK VIEW A Door Behind a Door a novel by
    Yelena Moskovich

    DW Reviews "Pick of the Month"

    "Moskovich mystifies with this vivid story of a pair of estranged siblings who immigrated to Milwaukee from the Soviet Union as children in 1991... The dynamic style and psychological depth make this an engaging mind bender.” —Publishers Weekly

    From visionary author, Yelena Moskovich, A Door Behind A Door follows Olga as she puzzles her way in search of her missing brother, tangling with an underground Midwestern Russian mafia in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.

    A Door Behind a Door

    a novel by
    Yelena Moskovich


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    "A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Rey song."
    The Guardian on Virtuoso

    In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of ’91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga’s past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.

  • A History of My Brief Body QUICK VIEW A History of My Brief Body a collection of essays by
    Billy-Ray Belcourt

    A Best Book of 2020
    Lambda Literary Award Finalist

    "[Belcourt] ably balances poetic, philosophical, and political insights throughout this unique book... An urgently needed, unyielding book of theoretical and intimate strength."
    Kirkus Reviews, starred


    For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness.

    A History of My Brief Body

    a collection of essays by
    Billy-Ray Belcourt


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    * A Best Book of 2020 —Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, CBC, Globe and Mail, Largehearted Boy.

    "In sharp pieces infused with a yearning for decolonized love and freedom, Belcourt, of the Driftpile Cree Nation, ably balances poetic, philosophical, and political insights throughout this unique book... An urgently needed, unyielding book of theoretical and intimate strength."
    Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.

    For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness.

    Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray’s writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place.

    Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.

  • A Mouthful of Air QUICK VIEW A Mouthful of Air a novel by
    Amy Koppelman

    Now a major motion picture starring Amanda Seyfried and Finn Wittrock!

    "...[a] novel that quietly builds suspense to the last page."
    Dallas Morning News


    Compared to seminal feminist works such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, A Mouthful of Air is a powerful, tragic statement on motherhood, family, and survival.

    A Mouthful of Air

    a novel by
    Amy Koppelman


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    "...[a] novel that quietly builds suspense to the last page."
    Dallas Morning News

    Compared to seminal feminist works such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, A Mouthful of Air is a powerful, tragic statement on motherhood, family, and survival.

  • A Questionable Shape New Classics Edition QUICK VIEW A Questionable Shape New Classics Edition a novel by
    Bennett Sims

    A Best Book of 2013
    Winner: Bard Fiction Prize
    The Believer Book Award Finalist

    "[A Questionable Shape] is more than just a novel. It is literature. It is life."
    —Susan Hazen-Hammond, The Millions

    A calculated postmodern zombie novel by one of America's brightest literary talents.
    The Two Dollar Radio - The New Classics edition features an original introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.

    A Questionable Shape New Classics Edition

    a novel by
    Bennett Sims


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    *Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19
    *Bard Fiction Prize 2014
    *The Believer Book Award Finalist
    *One of the Best Books of 2013Complex Magazine, Book Riot, Slate, The L Magazine, NPR's 'On Point', Salon

    Mazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of blood in his father’s house: the man has gone missing. So he creates a list of his father’s haunts and asks Vermaelen to help track him down. 

    However, hurricane season looms over Baton Rouge, threatening to wipe out any undead not already contained and eliminate all hope of ever finding Mazoch’s father. 

    Bennett Sims turns typical zombie fare on its head to deliver a wise and philosophical rumination on the nature of memory and loss.

  • A reading and conversation between Sarah Rose Etter and Yelena Moskovich QUICK VIEW A reading and conversation between Sarah Rose Etter and Yelena Moskovich
    Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The Book of X, and Yelena Moskovich is the author of Virtuoso.

    A reading and conversation between Sarah Rose Etter and Yelena Moskovich


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  • Abdurraqib, Hanif QUICK VIEW Abdurraqib, Hanif Hanif Abdurraqib
    Author of
    THEY CAN'T KILL US UNTIL THEY KILL US

    Abdurraqib, Hanif


    Hanif Abdurraqib


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  • All About Two Dollar Radio Radio QUICK VIEW All About Two Dollar Radio Radio
    Eric Obenauf, publisher of Two Dollar Radio, in a Q&A with his kids about the launch of Two Dollar Radio Radio.

    All About Two Dollar Radio Radio


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  • Alligator and Other Stories QUICK VIEW Alligator and Other Stories a collection of stories by
    Dima Alzayat

    A Best Book of 2020
    PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award Finalist
    Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize Finalist
    The Story Prize Longlist
    Arab American Book Awards, Honorable Mention

    "The richly detailed short fictions in this debut from a Damascus-born scribe form an intricate, breathtaking mosaic of modern Muslim life."
    —Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine

    Alligator and Other Stories is haunting, spellbinding, and unforgettable, while marking Dima Alzayat’s arrival as a tremendously gifted new talent.

    Alligator and Other Stories

    a collection of stories by
    Dima Alzayat


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    "Alzayat’s slim, powerful debut collection showcases the author’s deep empathy and imagination in stories about grief, assimilation, and trauma... This intelligent collection is a force to be reckoned with."
    Publishers Weekly, starred review

    *2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Finalist.
    *2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2021, Longlist.

    "A stellar debut... Alzayat manages to execute a short but thoughtful meditation on the spectrum of race in America from Jackson’s presidency to present." —Colin Groundwater, GQ

    "The richly detailed short fictions in this debut from a Damascus-born scribe form an intricate, breathtaking mosaic of modern Muslim life." —Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine

    The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat’s collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in “Ghusl,” or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in “Once We Were Syrians.”

    Alzayat’s stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of “Only Those Who Struggle Succeed,” the New York City children on the lookout for a place to play on the heels of Etan Patz’s kidnapping in “Disappearance,” and the “dangerous” women of “Daughters of Manāt” who struggle to assert their independence.

    The title story, “Alligator,” is a masterpiece of historical reconstruction and intergenerational trauma, told in an epistolary format through social media posts, newspaper clippings, and testimonials, that starts with the true story of the lynching of a Syrian immigrant couple by law officers in small-town Florida. Placed in a wider context of U.S. racial violence, the extrajudicial deaths, and what happens to the couple’s children and their children’s children in the years after, challenges the demands of American assimilation and its limits.

    Alligator and Other Stories is haunting, spellbinding, and unforgettable, while marking Dima Alzayat’s arrival as a tremendously gifted new talent.

  • Alzayat, Dima QUICK VIEW Alzayat, Dima Dima Alzayat
    Author of
    ALLIGATOR
    AND OTHER STORIES

    Alzayat, Dima


    Dima Alzayat


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  • Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky QUICK VIEW Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky a novel by
    David Connerley Nahm

    A Best Book of 2014
    "It's impossible to stop reading until you've gone through each beautiful line." —NPR

    A mysterious, lyric exploration of childhood, loss, and ghost stories.

    Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky

    a novel by
    David Connerley Nahm


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    *One of the Best Books of 2014  —NPR, Flavorwire
    *A Top-10 Independently-Published Title Overlooked by the National Book Foundation  —Electric Literature

    Leah’s little brother, Jacob, disappeared when the pair were younger, a tragedy that haunts her still. When a grown man arrives at the non-profit Leah directs claiming to be Jacob, she is wrenched back to her childhood, an iridescent tableau of family joy and strife, swimming at the lake, sneaking candy, late-night fears and the stories told to quell them.

    Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky is a wrecking-ball of a novel that attempts to give meaning and poetry to everything that comprises small-town life in central Kentucky. Listen: they are the ghost stories that children tell one another, the litter that skirts the gulley, the lines at department stores. A gorgeous, haunting, prismatic jewel of a book.

  • Andrews, Abi QUICK VIEW Andrews, Abi Abi Andrews
    Author of
    THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS


    Andrews, Abi


    Abi Andrews


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  • Apekina, Katya QUICK VIEW Apekina, Katya Katya Apekina
    Author of
    THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH

    Apekina, Katya


    Katya Apekina


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  • Art in Uncertain Times: Andre Perry, Phil Kim, Sadie Dupuis QUICK VIEW Art in Uncertain Times: Andre Perry, Phil Kim, Sadie Dupuis
    Art in Uncertain Times: Andre Perry, Phil Kim, Sadie Dupuis, in discussion.

    Art in Uncertain Times: Andre Perry, Phil Kim, Sadie Dupuis


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  • At the Edge of the Woods QUICK VIEW At the Edge of the Woods a novel by
    Kathryn Bromwich

    A Best Book of 2023

    "An accomplished, unsettling debut... of what it means to inhabit a female body but to reject femininity, and to feel a connection with the natural world that embodies both awe and terror. In this, its themes could not be more timely."
    —Stephanie Merritt,
    The Guardian


    With assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwich’s masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.

    At the Edge of the Woods

    a novel by
    Kathryn Bromwich


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    "Bromwich infects the senses with dread and wicked insight from the first page to the last—this is a stunning experience not to be missed."
    —Maryse Meijer, author of The Seventh Mansion

    With assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwich’s masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.

  • Author Reading with Dima Alzayat and Fowzia Karimi QUICK VIEW Author Reading with Dima Alzayat and Fowzia Karimi
    Dima Alzayat is the author of Alligator and Other Stories, and Fowzia Karimi is the author of Above Us Only the Milky Way.

    Author Reading with Dima Alzayat and Fowzia Karimi


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  • Away! Away! QUICK VIEW Away! Away! a novel by
    Jana Beňová
    Translated by Janet Livingstone

    "Beňová’s short, fast novels are a revolution against normality."
    Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF

    Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, Away! Away! is a shimmering mosaic examining human relationships, from Slovakia's most acclaimed novelist.

    Away! Away!

    a novel by
    Jana Beňová
    Translated by Janet Livingstone


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    "Beňova’s novel riffs on stories old and new, and the means by which we tell and experience them, to bring the reader inside her protagonist’s mind."
    —Vol. 1 Brooklyn

    Sometimes running away is the bravest option. Or, so believes Rosa, who ditches her husband and home and takes off on the road. Along the way, she encounters the owner of a puppet theater who’s on a mission to conquer the world with his performance of The Snow Queen.

    Which character from this old fairy tale will Rosa identify with? With Gerda, searching fruitlessly for her lost love? With Kai, who flees home and his beloved one day without a word? Or with the Snow Queen, who seems to stand aloof above it all?

    With magnetic, sparkling prose, Beňová delivers a lively mosaic that ruminates on human relationships, our greatest fears and desires.

  • Baby Geisha QUICK VIEW Baby Geisha a collection of stories by
    Trinie Dalton

    Los Angeles Magazine Critic's Pick
    "Half ingenious, and half-wily, winningly hard to pin down."
    Bookforum


    Eye-popping stories that showcase an assured and stylish talent.

    Baby Geisha

    a collection of stories by
    Trinie Dalton


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  • Backlist Bangers QUICK VIEW Backlist Bangers

    Choose 12 select backlist titles for $100!


    For many backlist titles, after the initial enthusiasm and support, we're left with copies. Rather than sitting in boxes, we want the books out in the world, being discovered, shared, and enjoyed by readers! Rather than sitting in boxes in storage, we want the books out there in the world, being discovered, shared, and enjoyed by readers!

    Backlist Bangers


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  • Baxter, Ella QUICK VIEW Baxter, Ella Ella Baxter

    Author of 
    NEW ANIMAL


    Baxter, Ella


    Ella Baxter


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  • Belcourt, Billy-Ray QUICK VIEW Belcourt, Billy-Ray Billy-Ray Belcourt
    Author of
    A HISTORY OF
    MY BRIEF BODY


    Belcourt, Billy-Ray


    Billy-Ray Belcourt


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  • Beňová, Jana QUICK VIEW Beňová, Jana Jana Beňová
    Author of
    SEEING PEOPLE OFF and
    AWAY! AWAY!

    Beňová, Jana


    Jana Beňová


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  • Binary Star QUICK VIEW Binary Star a novel by
    Sarah Gerard

    L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist
    A Best Book of 2015
    "Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal."
    —NPR

    An intense, elegiac portrait of young lovers as they battle personal afflictions.

    Binary Star

    a novel by
    Sarah Gerard


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    *Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.
    *Best Books of 2015
    —NPR,Vanity Fair
    *Best Fiction of 2015
    —BuzzFeed
    *Best Independent Press Books 2015
    —Flavorwire
    *Favorite Novels 2015
    —Largehearted Boy

    The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity.
    With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road-trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction.
    Binary Star is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick (or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions); a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success.

  • Blind Date sale QUICK VIEW Blind Date sale
    Looking for something stellar to read but unsure where to start? Put your feet up and leave the thinking to us.

    Score 2 books of our choosing for $9.99, which is 69% off the sticker price, which makes it an unbelievable deal!

    Blind Date sale


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  • Born Into This QUICK VIEW Born Into This a collection of stories by
    Adam Thompson

    A Best Book of 2021
    Winner: The Story Prize Spotlight Award
    Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist
    Age Book of the Year award, Finalist

    “With its wit, intelligence and restless exploration of the parameters of race and place, Thompson’s debut collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Indigenous Australian writers.”
    —Thuy On, The Guardian


    With humor, pathos, and the occasional sly twist, Thompson’s characters confront discrimination, untimely funerals, classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of cultural destruction, and — overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both black and white Australia — the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world.

    Born Into This

    a collection of stories by
    Adam Thompson


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    "The Tasmanian landscape and a whole host of engaging, charming and well drawn characters populate the stories that make up Born Into This… a wonderful reminder that there is no monolithic Aboriginal Australian."
    —Simon Clark, The AU Review

    From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism.

  • Bromwich, Kathryn QUICK VIEW Bromwich, Kathryn Kathryn Bromwich

    Author of 
    AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS


    Bromwich, Kathryn


    Kathryn Bromwich


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  • Browning, Barbara QUICK VIEW Browning, Barbara Barbara Browning
    Author of
    THE CORRESPONDENCE ARTIST

    Browning, Barbara


    Barbara Browning


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  • Campbell, N.J. QUICK VIEW Campbell, N.J. N.J. Campbell
    Author of
    FOUND AUDIO


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    N.J. Campbell


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  • Cauchon, Anne Marie Wirth QUICK VIEW Cauchon, Anne Marie Wirth Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon
    Author of
    NOTHING


    Cauchon, Anne Marie Wirth


    Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon


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  • Cavolo, Ricardo QUICK VIEW Cavolo, Ricardo Ricardo Cavolo
    Author of
    THE INCANTATIONS OF DANIEL JOHNSTON

    Cavolo, Ricardo


    Ricardo Cavolo


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  • Clark, Paige QUICK VIEW Clark, Paige Paige Clark

    Author of 
    SHE IS HAUNTED


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    Paige Clark


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  • Confessions From a Dark Wood QUICK VIEW Confessions From a Dark Wood a novel by
    Eric Raymond

    “Raymond’s deft satire, dripping from every carefully crafted scene, injects humor as it leaves no facet of our crumbling culture... unscathed."
    —Chris Vola, PANK Magazine


    A hilarious, heartbreaking, painfully smart satire that guides you through the high dollar swamps of modern industry.

    Confessions From a Dark Wood

    a novel by
    Eric Raymond


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    You have received a business card.
    It invites you into the world of global capital brand management consultancy.
    Prepare for pain.

    You'll meet Nick, a hapless pawn in the world of global capital brand management consulting. And his girlfriend Sadie Parish, the first domestic suicide bomber. And his boss, emperor of b****t, Pontius J. LaBar. And PJ's dreaded orangutan. Their story is a hilarious, heartbreaking, painfully smart satire that guides you through the high dollar swamps of modern industry.

  • Crapalachia New Classics Edition QUICK VIEW Crapalachia New Classics Edition a memoir by
    Scott McClanahan

    A Best Book of 2013
    "[McClanahan] aims to
    lasso the moon."
    New York Times Book Review

    An endearing and haunting coming-of-age story that announces McClanahan as a resounding talent.

    Crapalachia New Classics Edition

    a memoir by
    Scott McClanahan


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    *One of the Best Books of 2013The Millions, Flavorwire, Dazed & Confused, The L Magazine, Time Out Chicago

    "McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger."
    Allison Glock, New York Times Book Review

     

    Synopsis

    Crapalachia is a portrait of Scott McClanahan’s formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. 

    Peopled by colorful characters and their quirky stories, Crapalachia interweaves oral folklore and area history, providing an ambitious and powerful snapshot of overlooked Americana. 

    Beyond the artistry, there is an optimism, a genuine love for people and the past and memories. Even more, there is a grasp to bridge the disconnect between reader and writer, for McClanahan’s stories to bind us closer to one another.

  • Crust (Out of Print) QUICK VIEW Crust (Out of Print) a novel by
    Lawrence Shainberg

    "A Vonnegut-worthy satire."
    Boston Globe

    "The Great American Nose-Picking Novel," equal-parts George Orwell and Christopher Guest. Out of Print!

    Crust (Out of Print)

    a novel by
    Lawrence Shainberg


    $ 15.00

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  • Crystal Eaters (Out of Print) QUICK VIEW Crystal Eaters (Out of Print) a novel by
    Shane Jones

    A Best Book of 2014
    "Reminds us that life itself is a luminous thing."
    HTML Giant

    An ambitious family saga, love story, and watershed in the career of this acclaimed fabulist. Out of Print!

    Crystal Eaters (Out of Print)

    a novel by
    Shane Jones


    $ 16.00

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  • Dalton, Trinie QUICK VIEW Dalton, Trinie Trinie Dalton
    Author of
    BABY GEISHA


    Dalton, Trinie


    Trinie Dalton


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  • Damascus (Out of Print) QUICK VIEW Damascus (Out of Print) a novel by
    Joshua Mohr

    "Damascus succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision."
    Wall Street Journal

    Gracefully tackling cancer, Iraq, and self-esteem, Damascus is Mohr's most accomplished work yet. Out of Print!

    Damascus (Out of Print)

    a novel by
    Joshua Mohr


    $ 16.00

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  • de Silva, Mark QUICK VIEW de Silva, Mark Mark de Silva
    Author of
    SQUARE WAVE


    de Silva, Mark


    Mark de Silva


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    With remarkable grace, candor, and a poet’s ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers — from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna — who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice.

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    In 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring premiered at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées in Paris. The work so perplexed audiences that a riot broke out. “Only a Russian could do that,” says Aleksandr Ivanovich. “Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad.”

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    "Climate change, time travel, startup culture, and volcanic eruptions intertwine in this sui generis outing from [Stintzi]... Told in a series of buzzing numbered fragments, the narrative whirls around a volcano rising in Central Park that looks like Mount Fuji. As the volcano grows, Stintzi builds out the wide-ranging narrative with jump cuts... That Stintzi keeps all these plates spinning is a wonder; that they transform the chaotic present into a fiery, transcendent vision of the future is even more impressive. It’s a brilliant achievement."
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    On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later, when it finally stops growing, it’s nearly two-and-a-half miles tall, and has been determined to be an active volcano.

    As the volcano grows and then looms over New York, an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself transported 500 years into the past, where he witnesses the fall of the Aztec Empire; a Nigerian scholar in Tokyo studies a folktale about a woman of fire who descends a mountain and destroys an entire village; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse tends to Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of living through the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic farmer in Mongolia is stung by a bee, magically transforming him into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aspires to connect every living thing into its consciousness.

    With its riveting and audacious vision, My Volcano is a tapestry on fire, a distorted and cinematic new work from the fiercely talented John Elizabeth Stintzi.

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  • New Animal QUICK VIEW New Animal a novel by
    Ella Baxter

    Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist

    "For fans of Sally Rooney’s brand of millennial malaise and Six Feet Under’s tragicomic take on the mortuary business, New Animal is at turns graphic, raw and tender—a wholly human exploration of the Venn diagram of emotion."
    —Sarah Stiefvater, PureWow


    New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter.

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    "A story about sex, connection and, comically, the Tasmanian BDSM scene, that is by turns profound and funny."
    —Kylie Northover, The Age

    New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter.

    Amelia Aurelia is approaching thirty and her closest relationships — other than her mother — are through her dating apps. She works at the family mortuary business as a cosmetic mortician with her eccentric step-father and older brother, whose throuple’s current preoccupation is with what type of snake to adopt. When Amelia’s affectionate mother passes away without warning, she is left without anchor. Fleeing the funeral, she seeks solace with her birth-father in Tasmania and stumbles into the local BDSM community, where her riotous attempts to belong are met with confusion, shock, and empathy.

    Hilarious and heartfelt, New Animal reveals hard-won truths as Amelia struggles to find her place in the world without her mother, with the help of her two well-intentioned fathers and adventures at the kink club.

  • Night Rooms QUICK VIEW Night Rooms a collection of essays by
    Gina Nutt

    A Best Book of 2021
    2022 IPPY Medalist for Essay

    "[Nutt] spins a striking tale of survival and loss in this haunting essay collection. Nutt uses familiar tropes from horror films as a window into her thinking... Lovers of the personal essay will be thrilled by this innovative collection."
    Publishers Weekly


    Night Rooms is a poetic, intimate collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival.

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    Night Rooms is a poetic, intimate collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival.

    Whether competing in shopping mall beauty pageants, reflecting on childhood monsters and ballet lessons, or recounting dark cultural ephemera while facing grief and authenticity in the digital age, Gina Nutt’s shifting style echoes the sub-genres that Night Rooms highlights—spirit-haunted slow burns, possession tales, slashers, and revenge films with a feminist bent.

    Refracting life through the lens of horror films, Night Rooms masterfully leaps between reality and movies, past and present—because the “final girl’s” story is ultimately a survival story told another way.

  • No Colony Issue 3 QUICK VIEW No Colony Issue 3 a journal by
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  • No Other QUICK VIEW No Other a novel by
    Mark Gluth

    "This is a beautiful novel on a sentence level... In No Other, Gluth shows us that the world doesn’t need to be forced into literary form to have meaning."
    —Heather Scott Partington, Electric Literature


    In a sequence of haunted seasons, Tuesday, Hague, and their mother Karen are pained by the aporia of love and death. With powerfully elemental prose, No Other lays bare the mysterious and emotional fate of a small family.

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    In a sequence of haunted seasons, Tuesday, Hague, and their mother Karen are pained by the aporia of love and death. With powerfully elemental prose, No Other lays bare the mysterious and emotional fate of a small family.

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