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QUICK VIEW Palaces (Ebook)
a novel by
Simon Jacobs
Starred reviews: Publishers Weekly, Foreword Reviews
"Palaces is robust, both current and clairvoyant, and answers the question of what happens when our deepest fantasies become reality.—Foreword Reviews, starred review
While exercising precision and a cool detachment, Simon Jacobs has crafted a surreal and spellbinding first novel of horror and intrigue. Palaces (Ebook)
a novel by
Simon Jacobs
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 9.99John and Joey are a young couple immersed in their local midwestern punk scene, who after graduating college sever all ties and move to a perverse and nameless northeastern coastal city. They drift in and out of art museums, basement shows, and derelict squats seemingly unfazed as the city slowly slides into chaos around them.
Late one night, forced out of their living space, John and Joey are driven to take shelter in a chain pharmacy before emerging to a city in full-scale riot. They find themselves the only passengers on a commuter train headed north, and exit at the final stop to discover the area entirely devoid of people. As John and Joey negotiate their future through bizarre, troubling manifestations of the landscape and a succession of abandoned mansions housing only scant clues to their owners' strange and sudden disappearance, they're also forced to confront the resurgent violence and buried memories of their shared past.
With incisive precision and a cool detachment, Simon Jacobs has crafted a surreal and spellbinding first novel of horror and intrigue. -
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 The Reactive (Ebook)
a novel by
Masande Ntshanga
A Best Book of 2016
"A searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa."
—Poets & Writers
Heralded in the author's native South Africa as "the hottest novel of the year," The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother. -
QUICK VIEW Square Wave (Ebook)
a novel by
Mark de Silva
"Compelling and horrifying."
—Chicago Tribune
A grand novel of ideas and compelling crime mystery, about security states past and present, weather modification, and imperial influences. Square Wave (Ebook)
a novel by
Mark de Silva
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.99Carl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded. Along his nightly patrol, Stagg finds a beaten prostitute, one in a series of monstrous attacks. Suspicious of his supervisor’s intentions, Stagg seeks the truth with a fellow part-time watchman, Ravan, who hails from a family developing storm-dispersal technologies jointly funded by the Indian and American governments.
The watchmen’s discoveries put a troubling complexion on Stagg’s research, giving it new shape and impetus, just as the weather modification project begins to appear less about dispersing storms than weaponizing them.
By gracefully weaving a study of the psychological effects of a militarized state upon its citizenry with topics as diverse as microtonal music and cloud physics, Square Wave signals the triumphant arrival of a young writer certain to be considered one of the most ambitious and intelligent of his generation.
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QUICK VIEW The Glacier (Ebook)
a novel by
Jeff Wood
"One of the most indelible and visionary movies you've ever seen." —Jon Raymond
A brilliant and visceral cinematic novel about authenticity and the American condition. The Glacier (Ebook)
a novel by
Jeff Wood
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.99The Glacier is a spellbinding work in the spirit of Tarkovsky or Jodorowsky that reimagines the American frontier at the turn of the millennium, a time when suburban development was metastasizing and the Social was about to implode. Following a caterer at a convention center, a surveyor residing in a storage unit, and the masses lining up for an Event on the horizon, The Glacier is a poetic rendering of the pre-apocalypse and a requiem for the passing of one world into another.
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QUICK VIEW Haints Stay (Ebook)
a novel by
Colin Winnette
Included in Vice's "2015 Was the Year the Literary Versus Genre War Ended"
"A success... Haints Stay turns the Western on its ear." —Washington Post
An imaginative, acid western from a rising star in the indie lit world. -
QUICK VIEW The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Ebook)
a novel by
Nicholas Rombes
A Best Book of 2014
"Kafka directed by David Lynch doesn't even come close."
—3:AM Magazine
A debut from a distinctive and fresh American visionary. The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Ebook)
a novel by
Nicholas Rombes
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QUICK VIEW Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky (Ebook)
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 (Ebook)
a novel by
David Connerley Nahm
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00(ALL AUTHOR PROCEEDS, MATCHED BY TWO DOLLAR RADIO, WILL BE DONATED TO IRC).
*One of the Best Books of 2014 —NPR, Flavorwire
*A Top-10 Independently-Published Title Overlooked by the National Book Foundation —Electric LiteratureLeah’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.
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QUICK VIEW Made to Break (Ebook)
a novel by
D. Foy
A Best Book of 2014
"Reads like what we’d imagine a Stanley Kubrick rewrite of a script by Denis Johnson might look like." —Flavorwire
A melancholic and savage look at friendship. Made to Break (Ebook)
a novel by
D. Foy
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*One of the best books of 2014 —Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine
"Made to Break, D. Foy’s debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, and Made to Break ushers his literary energies into categorical existence."
—The Daily BeastTwo days before New Years, a pack of five friends—three men and two women—head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They’ve been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.
After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.
With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.
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QUICK VIEW Mira Corpora (Ebook)
a novel by
Jeff Jackson
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist
A Best Book of 2013
"A piercing howl of a book."
—Slate
A story of redemption in the face of nightmarish odds. -
QUICK VIEW A Questionable Shape (Ebook)
a novel by
Bennett Sims
A Best Book of 2013
Winner of the 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 new literary talents. A Questionable Shape (Ebook)
a novel by
Bennett Sims
$ 8.99View full product details →$ 10.00*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19
*Bard Fiction Prize 2014
*The Believer Book Award Finalist
*One of the Best Books of 2013 —Complex Magazine, Book Riot, Slate, The L Magazine, NPR's 'On Point', SalonMazoch 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.
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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 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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