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QUICK VIEW They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Ebook)
a collection of essays by
Hanif Abdurraqib
A Best Book of 2017
"Funny, painful, precise, desperate, and loving throughout. Not a day has sounded the same since I read him."
—Greil Marcus, Village Voice
In this collection of essays, Hanif Abdurraqib, acclaimed poet and cultural critic, grapples with a storm cloud of confounding emotions with prose that is immediate, personal, poetic, sometimes funny and always deeply touching. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Ebook)
a collection of essays by
Hanif Abdurraqib
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QUICK VIEW White Dialogues (Ebook)
a story collection by
Bennett Sims
A Best Book of 2017
“Anyone who admires such pyrotechnics of language will find 21st-century echoes of Edgar Allan Poe in Sims’s portraits of paranoia and delusion, with their zodiacal narrowing and the maddening tungsten spin of their narratives.”
—New York Times Book Review
The debut collection of phantasmagorical stories from award-winning novelist, Bennett Sims. White Dialogues (Ebook)
a story collection by
Bennett Sims
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19
With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories.
A house-sitter alone in a cabin in the woods comes to suspect that the cabin may need to be “unghosted.” A raconteur watches as his personal story is rewritten on an episode of This American Life. And in the collection’s title story, a Hitchcock scholar sitting in on a Vertigo lecture is gradually driven mad by his own theory of cinema.
In these eleven stories, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted by their environments, obsessions, and doubts. Told in electric, insightful prose, White Dialogues is a profound exploration of the way we uncover meaning in a complex, and sometimes terrifying, world. It showcases Sims’s rare talent and confirms his reputation as one of the most exciting young writers at work today. -
QUICK VIEW The Drop Edge of Yonder (Ebook)
a novel by
Rudolph Wurlitzer
A Best Book of 2008
"The most hallucinogenic western you'll ever catch in the movie house of your mind's eye."
—Bookforum
Rudolph Wurlitzer’s first novel in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth. The Drop Edge of Yonder (Ebook)
a novel by
Rudolph Wurlitzer
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QUICK VIEW Sirens (Ebook)
a memoir by
Joshua Mohr
A Best Book of 2017
"Raw-edged and whippet-thin... Mohr’s prose is lean and scrappy—a featherweight boxer that packs a punch."
—Los Angeles Times
With the vulnerability and grit for which he's praised, Mohr returns with a harrowing chronicle of substance abuse and relapse. Sirens (Ebook)
a memoir by
Joshua Mohr
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 9.99*Best of 2017 —San Francisco Chronicle
"Raw-edged and whippet-thin, Sirens swings from tales of bawdy addiction to charged moments of a father struggling to stay clean. Mohr’s prose is lean and scrappy—a featherweight boxer that packs a punch.”
—Los Angeles TimesWith vulnerability, grit, and hard-won humor, acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr returns with his first book-length work of non-fiction, a raw and big-hearted chronicle of substance abuse, relapse, and family compassion.
Sirens provides a harrowing and complicated account of Mohr's years of substance abuse and culpability. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded, Mohr leaves no rock from his sordid past un-turned, from his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid, through the black-outs and fist-fights, his first failed marriage to his path to sobriety, through the birth of his daughter and the three strokes he suffers in his thirties that reveal he has a literal hole in his heart.
Sirens is a spectacularly moving tome of honesty and emotion from one of our most gifted contemporary writers. -
QUICK VIEW Not Dark Yet (Ebook)
a novel by
Berit Ellingsen
A Best Book of 2015
"[Ellingsen] is just starting what promises to be a major career, but already giving readers a unique and fascinating perspective."
—Jeff VanderMeer
A rich character-driven drama, addressing questions of personal morals and societal ethics, set on the cusp of a self-inflicted apocalypse. Not Dark Yet (Ebook)
a novel by
Berit Ellingsen
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 9.99*Favorite books of 2015 —Electric Literature
"Fascinating, surreal, gorgeously written, and like nothing you’ve ever read before, Not Dark Yet is the book we all need to read right now. It is art about science, climate change, and activism, and it vitally explores how we as people deal with a world that is transforming in terrifying ways."
—BuzzFeedBrandon leaves his boyfriend in the city for a quiet life in the mountains after an affair with a professor ends with Brandon being forced to kill a research animal. It is a violent, unfortunate episode that conjures memories from his military background.
In the mountains, his new neighbors are using the increased temperatures to stage an ambitious agricultural project in an effort to combat globally heightened food prices and shortages. Brandon gets swept along with their optimism, while simultaneously applying to a new astronaut training program. However, he learns that these changes—internal, external—are irreversible.
A sublime love story coupled with the universal struggle for personal understanding, Not Dark Yet is an informed novel of consequences with an ever-tightening emotional grip on the reader. -
QUICK VIEW The Only Ones (Ebook)
a novel by
Carola Dibbell
A Best Book of 2015
"Breathtaking. [Dibbell has] delivered a debut novel on par with some of the best speculative fiction of the past 30 years." —NPR
An edgy, intimate portrait of a mother and daughter in a post-pandemic world. The Only Ones (Ebook)
a novel by
Carola Dibbell
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*10 Favorite Books of the Year (2015) —O, The Oprah Magazine
*Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 —The Washington Post
*One of the most anticipated books of 2015 —Dazed & Confused, BuzzFeedInez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental Ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this experimentation is done.
When the mother backs out at the last minute, Inez is left responsible for the product, which in this case is a baby girl, Ani. Inez must protect Ani, who is a scientific breakthrough, keeping her alive, dodging authorities and religious fanatics, and trying to provide Ani with the chilldhood tha Inez never had, which means a stable home and an education.
With a stylish voice, The Only Ones is a time-old story, tender and iconic, about how much we love our children, however they come, as well as a sly commentary on class, politics, and the complexities of reproductive technology.
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QUICK VIEW How To Get Into the Twin Palms (EBOOK)
a novel by
Karolina Waclawiak
A Best Book of 2012
"Reinvents the
immigration story."
—New York Times Book Review
Get ready to lust after chest-hair and pleather. How To Get Into the Twin Palms (EBOOK)
a novel by
Karolina Waclawiak
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QUICK VIEW Radio Iris (Ebook)
a novel by
Anne-Marie Kinney
"'The Office' as scripted
by Kafka."
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Deals with watercooler culture in an artful and existential way, delivering an eerie allegory of our modern recession. Radio Iris (Ebook)
a novel by
Anne-Marie Kinney
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00“Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.”
—Deb Olin Unferth, New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceRadio Iris is the story of Iris Finch, a socially awkward daydreamer with a job as the receptionist/personal assistant to an eccentric and increasingly absent businessman. When Iris is not sitting behind her desk waiting for the phone to ring, she makes occasional stabs at connection with the earth and the people around her through careful observation and insomniac daydreams, always more watcher than participant as she shuttles between her one-bedroom apartment and the office she inhabits so completely, yet has never quite understood.
Her world cracks open with the discovery of “the man next door.” Over the next few weeks or months (the passage of time is iffy for Iris), she takes it upon herself to learn everything she can about this stranger. But the closer she gets to him, the more troubling questions at the heart of her own life rise to the surface, questions like—Why does she keep having the same dream? Why is it that she and her brother don’t seem to have a single shared memory of their childhood? What is it her boss actually does? In the end, Iris is faced with a choice she never imagined, and a reality she never knew enough to dread. -
QUICK VIEW I'm Trying to Reach You (Ebook)
a novel by
Barbara Browning
A Best Book of 2012
The Believer Book Award Finalist.
First Michael Jackson, then Pina Bausch. Is someone killing famous dancers? A witty and seductive mystery. I'm Trying to Reach You (Ebook)
a novel by
Barbara Browning
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*The Believer Book Award Finalist
*One of the Best Books of 2012—BuzzFeed“I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died. When I heard the news, the first thing I thought was, That’s it. That’s the first line of my novel. ‘I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died.’”
First Michael Jackson, then Pina Bausch. Next is Merce Cunningham.
Gray Adams, a former dancer with the Royal Swiss Ballet at work on his dissertation at NYU, has a theory spurred by countless hours of YouTube-based procrastination: Someone is killing these famous dancers! (And he may bear an uncanny resemblance to Jimmy Stewart, circa Vertigo.)
I’m Trying to Reach You is a moving and candid contemporary look at how we process grief, as well as how we love and communicate with one another.
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QUICK VIEW Baby Geisha (EBOOK)
a story collection by
Trinie Dalton
"Half ingenious, and half-wily, winningly hard to pin down."
—Bookforum
Eye-popping stories that showcase an assured and stylish talent. -
QUICK VIEW The Correspondence Artist (Ebook)
a novel by
Barbara Browning
"A deft look at modern life that's both witty and devastating."
—Nylon
Sure to delight fans of Chris Krause and Charlie Kaufman. The Correspondence Artist (Ebook)
a novel by
Barbara Browning
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*Lambda Literary Award Winner
In The Correspondence Artist, an unremarkable woman has been carrying on with an internationally recognized artist, largely via e-mail. To protect her paramour's identity, she creates a series of correspondent, alternative lovers in a self-destructing roman à clef.
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