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Quickview… and Beefheart Saved Craig by Jefferson Hansen
FictionThis book comes at readers from all angles, literally, with its energetic mix of innovative narrative, informed cultural criticism, and good old-fashioned character development about life among the drinking classes. Hansen's absolutely contemporary questioning of individual identity spins out through a story about some ordinary and ornery people whose mundane lives are paradoxically compelling and often shocking. —Mark Wallace$18.00 -
Quickview3 by Doris Shapiro
FictionThese striking stories portray cycles of the human condition recognizable to us all. Here we look at the ending of life in the ending of a life. In another we see the brilliant self-deception we employ to avoid unwanted change. The third celebrates the possibilities and satisfactions of friendship. The stories, powerful on their own, together offer emotional pleasures that linger.$16.00 -
QuickviewA Field Guide to the Rehearsal by Dennis Barone
Fiction, New Releases, PoetryDennis Barone’s A Field Guide to the Rehearsal is a most unique book, an open-form, subtly off-beat narrative, a mixture of poetry and prose, of memory and concrete, image-filled metaphysics. —David Cappella$16.00 -
QuickviewAlice Through the Working Class by Steve McCaffery, illustrations by Clelia Scala
Fiction, New Releases, SuperstarsMcCaffery, with his customary linguistic wit, now takes [Alice] through the working-class, into the industrial revolution, where Mary Wollestonecraft is the Red Queen, and the Soviet workers’ paradise, where Lenin is the Lion and the Unicorn is Trotsky. And, horribile dictu, it works. Don’t miss the Bolshevik Jabberwocky.—Jean-Jacques Lecercle,$22.00 -
QuickviewAnhedonia by Patrick Chapman
FictionThese nine stories of love and its opposite, blend darkness, humor and a refreshing emotional openness. Briskly written and told with a winning humanity, Anhedonia is a fine collection from one of Ireland’s most exciting writers.$18.00 -
QuickviewArt Fraud by Jeffrey Schrader
FictionOne could say of Art Fraud that it is typing, not writing. And one would miss the point. Jeffrey Schrader, typist extraordinaire, delves into the all too frequent absurdity that results when art meets commerce. The result is pure slapstick. — Juliana Spahr$16.00 -
QuickviewBliss Inc. by Ron Burch
FictionIn a city that is a dream, or a frontier, or a dystopia, Nel Lowry is our pilgrim whose progress is a search for Bliss, which is a company and the promise of a lifetime position in a place that might have appeared in Kafka's Amerika. —Toby Olson$18.00 -
QuickviewBYSTANDER An Irreality by mIEKAL aND
FictionWhat would happen if words, disguised as characters Balboa Pettibone and She-singer, could hallucinate and time travel? mIEKAL aND, one of our most intrepid verbal explorers, takes us into the world of genre fiction and sets it spinning into an “irreality” as iridescent as myth clothed in neon language. —Maria Damon$16.00 -
QuickviewChant by Richard Henry
FictionSuccessful formal experiments, especially those relying on Oulipian restraints and combinatorics, might demand a certain degree of skill and patience, but so what? They remain “beyond aesthetic value,” as Raymond Queneau said – a mere demonstration of intellectual gymnastics. —Matt Short$16.00 -
QuickviewChe. by Peter Money
Fiction"epic"— Christian Peet (Tarpaulin Sky, Big American Trip)$16.00 -
QuickviewCruelty by Jefferson Hansen
FictionIn Jefferson Hansen’s collection of short stories, Cruelty, his assorted strange and confused characters are much like the people who pass through my life any day, only with a more pronounced and interesting strangeness. —Mary Kasimor$16.00 -
QuickviewDeco by J.J. Colagrande
FictionDecò begins his journey in South Beach. He's a writer armed with "multiple graduate degrees" living a glorified condo-life off of "$400,000 in student loan debt." Life is great with his "super-hot model girlfriend" until the real estate market crashes and he quickly loses it all. Forced to move to the art haven of Wynwood, Decò seeks the success he has always felt he was owed.$16.00 -
QuickviewDoes the Moon Ever Shine in Heaven? by Chuck Richardson
FictionExperiencing the heart and mind of a suicided murderer, Does the Moon Ever Shine in Heaven? gives voice to a killer’s disturbing passage through the Bardo Plane . According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo is the existential phase between death and re-birth where the soul confronts itself, trying to stave off its karmic pressure by confronting the active contents of its mind. Here, the narrator must go beyond the rage that would destroy him and everything else it can.$16.00 -
QuickviewEpigonesia by Kane X. Faucher and Tom Bradley
FictionKane X. Faucher and Tom Bradley bullwhip some of literature's most vibrant luminaries, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Antonin Artaud and Hunter S. Thompson. Through occult means, "Ebeneezer" Pound has reanimated his favorite dead authors as part of a villainous master plan. The re-embodied writers suffer through their tragicomic limitations as epigones of themselves. Faucher's puppeteering of Pound is matched by Bradley, who hurls into the text an annotated revelation of diabolic intrigue involving a dead author and a commandeered laptop.$22.00 -
QuickviewHeadz by JJ Colagrande
Fiction$16.00“Headz gets inside the next generation jam band scene and turns it back out. It moves like great music in your brain and keeps you groovin' until the last page. Tune in, turn on, and pick up this book. —Peter Conners
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QuickviewIterations of Lilith and Adam: An Alien’s Memoir by Chuck Richardson
FictionChuck Richardson writes like he’s the conductor of a chorus of demons. Hallucinatory and searing, Iterations of Lilith and Adam pounds away at your equilibrium until your only choice is to let go, accept your fate, and let Richardson be your guide. —Dave Megenhardt$20.00 -
QuickviewJDP by Ron Burch
Fiction, New ReleasesRon Burch exposes the offbeat edge of California’s most mythical urban places populated with tourists feeding the quest for memorabilia of dead celebrities—leading to the ultimate prize, JDP. Tough and gritty with equal parts heart and offbeat humor, the novel’s innovative narrative pumps new noir through the veins of Hollywood in an ironic journey with an unlikely XXXL protagonist who runs a celebrity museum and stretches the limits of anti-hero iconography. —Aimee Parkison,$22.00 -
QuickviewJonkil Dies (A Mesophysical Eulogy) by Kane X. Faucher
Fiction"Holy Kanadada, Bat(aille)man! Kane X. Faucher's socio-sexio-scalpel of Logos explodes an intoxicated phantasmarrhea of Anguish & Ecstasy unto the Jabberwocky Matrix Éxtrémé! Run for the Collidosphere of hyper-Deleuzian Magyaria & hold to the Vertigo of the New Philology's Brainbucket Bastardchild!" — Mark Spitzer$20.00 -
QuickviewJournals From the Time of the Radar Dog By Pat Lawrence
FictionThese are the collected journals of my friend, Vincent Pantaglia, from a period late in his life. During this time he was furiously documenting his daily activities with the hope of using the material to someday write a novel. When he was unable to finish the journals or to realize his dream of re-working their stories and characters into a fiction, I took the notebooks into my possession for safekeeping after having received them from his family, and out of nostalgia, I suppose.$18.00 -
QuickviewKatzenjammered by Norma Kassirer
FictionKatzenjammered is a brilliantly compelling illumination of the nature of storytelling. Through the haunting imagery of interwoven narratives, the tale carries the reader through family mythology, tragedy, and beyond. With, in the words of the young protagonist, “each syllable broken into light and shadow”, the language is a joy to read. —Donna Wyszomierski$16.00 -
QuickviewLine And Pause by Forrest Roth
Fiction"Driven by deep experimentation with the conventions of fiction--chapter, plot, the requirements against obliteration--but with a shameless commitment to narrative, Roth makes a novel seemingly from thin air. In a poetic voice inflected by visual and aural space, Line and Pause reveals both the body and the spirit of the artistic life." — Kazim Ali$18.00 -
QuickviewLittle: Novels by Emily Anderson
Fiction, PoetryCome for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st-century. —Alison Fraser$25.00 -
QuickviewLIZARD or EASY ANSWERS: They Are None Being a Novel Tracing of the Yi Jing/ I Ching Seen to by Thomas Meyer
Fiction, SuperstarsLizard offers the poet and reader a simultaneous process of personal narration, a creation evolving thought the constant change of form, the reading and the writing in a balancing act of creation, and divination improvisation. Lizard an ever being written and, therefore, changing form of poetic prose thought the I Ching: A form of interpreted life is a meaningful form of poetry. —Michael Basinski$18.00 -
QuickviewMORPHEUS: A BILDUNGSROMAN by John Kinsella
Fiction, SuperstarsMorpheus has its origins in a novel John Kinsella worked on in his late teens — a time of transition between adolescence and adulthood, but not a time before he had at least glimpsed the contours of the vast, interconnecting literary project that was to be his lifelong pursuit. An amalgam of realism and fantasy, of fiction, poetry, and drama, the project limned the phantasmagoric yet self-questioning and disciplined emotional terrain that has so captivated and intrigued his many current readers worldwide.$22.00 -
QuickviewNonexistence by Kenji Siratori
Fiction"Kenji Siratori breaks new ground that others only dream.” — Alan Sondheim$16.00 -
QuickviewOn The Bus: Selected Stories by Dennis Barone
FictionDennis Barone often mixes history, politics, religion and poetic story-telling into a heady mix in which all are transformed. Barone has proven himself one of the more interesting – and adventuresome – of American fiction writers. —Douglas Messerli$16.00 -
QuickviewPatient Women by Larissa Shmailo
FictionLarissa Shmailo’s Patient Women tells the story of Nora, a gifted young woman who comes of age in New York against heavy odds. Her Russian mother is demanding; the young men around her are uncaring; and her dependence on drink and sex leads her to a shadowy life filled with self-made demons. Yet Nora’s intelligence pulls her through the difficult times—there are even moments of (very) dark humor here. —Thaddeus Rutkowski$18.00 -
QuickviewPetites Suites by Robert Wexelblatt
Fiction“If these stories were mousetraps, we should all be mice. They are enticing and snap without warning, but the real surprise is their grace. The survivors escape a wee bit wiser, more alert, and creatively perturbed.” —R. S. Deese$18.00 -
QuickviewQuinn’s Passage by Kazim Ali
Fiction, Superstars"The will to be transformed away from the senses via the senses is a sensualist's mission. It is Quinn's desire, as it is the desire of the gods. The reader will see that such a desire infuses language with a passion for breathing and utterance equally." —Fanny Howe$16.00 -
QuickviewSelected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins Edited by Barbara Henning
Fiction, SuperstarsBobbie Louise Hawkins is a remarkable master of the witty understated prose sentence and writes in the lineage of Barbara Pym and Jane Bowles; she is also a fabulous storyteller with a great ear for the "very thing": quip or bon mot. —Anne Waldman$18.00 -
QuickviewSidewalk Portrait: Fifty Fourth Floor and Falling by Rick Henry
FictionRick Henry's Sidewalk Portrait is audaciously conceived and meticulously crafted. It's such a winning work of word art in its modernist and pomo impulses that it seems it should have already been with us for decades, like the recently discovered experiment of a lost Oulipo genius. —Ted Pelton$16.00 -
QuickviewSmall Crimes by Tom Carey
FictionSmall Crimes is a heartbreaking and beautiful valentine between historical moments. Mexico’s early twentieth century art world, its Hollywood moment, is sweetly subverted in Tom Carey’s twitching hands. Reading it I’m grateful for his insouciant homoeroticsm and popping dialogue because they make this novel more memory than simulacrum. Meaning it really feels true. —Eileen Myles$18.00 -
QuickviewSmoke by Chuck Richardson
FictionChuck Richardson's Smoke probes human existence by pursuing truth and meaning in an unknowable, inexpressible universe, much like the author-ities. What makes Smoke fascinating is the imaginary catastrophe lurking behind it, which leaves us to invent and imagine the world anew. —Raymond Federman$16.00 -
QuickviewSo It Seams by Chuck Richardson
Fiction$18.00Chuck Richardson is a necessary American writer: Kafka’s disturbed humor; postmodern esemplastic axes and paradoxes; Taoist humility of Hindu-Buddhist warfare mentality; Black Elk’s quest for his siblings; Castaneda’s sexual appeal; the grotesque Thomism of Flannery O’Connor; Marquez; Grace Paley; A.P.E.S. and quantum physics and a healthy dose of gastronomic preference; a nuclear-sonar-tech-turned-journalist-bracketing Buffalo and Greenpeace, the range of Chuck Richardson astounds me. —Jared Schickling
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QuickviewSo Long, Napoleon Solo by Patrick Chapman
FictionDublin, 1999. Jerome Williams is a man in denial. When his childhood friend Tom shoots himself dead, Jerome enters a world shaped by the spy games of their youth, as their secret identities re-emerge in unexpected ways. He encounters Tom’s pregnant girlfriend Ro, who might just carry out the death pact she had with her lover—but should Jerome even try to save her? And can he convince Clea, his new oldest friend, to leave her potentially dangerous partner?$18.00 -
QuickviewSunsphere by Andrew Farkas
FictionThis brilliantly satirical and playfully experimental collection upends all expectations—Sunsphere is the perfect book for our absurdist times. Each story is a new philosophical labyrinth of delicious, Barthelme-style surprises. Don a pair of ironic (or earnest!) sunglasses, and enjoy this incredible book. —Alissa Nutting$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Antiracism Trainings by David Reich
FictionDavid Reich has written a funny, incisive novel about race, religion, and office politics. He's fearlessly unpious, observant, and witty, but he's also fair to his flawed and often enjoyably irksome characters. His gift for finding nuanced humanity in their semi-good intentions gives warmth and life to this quietly ambitious satire. —Carlo Rotella$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Complete Collection: Of People Places and Things by John Dermot Woods
Fiction“John Woods' The Complete Collection brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino's fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that book's dreamish vision of Imperial China. — Johannes Göransson$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Electric Affinities by Wade Stevenson
FictionThe Electric Affinities examines the interior lives and motives of six affluent, artistic friends as they struggle to find love and meaning in the summer of 1969, “the year that changed everything.” Set in the Hamptons and New York City, the novel brilliantly captures the decadent, freedom-loving lifestyles of characters trapped in a “prison of opulence.”$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Hole in the Den by Michael Martrich
FictionWhen Tory Spry’s hallucinations become more frequent - what start out as a “pinpoint,” extend into an “arc,” and eventually become the blunted but flashing “Fingerprint” - he reluctantly but necessarily retreats inward into the well of himself. Swimming through the blackholed remnants of his outside world - high school, church, diners, home, in the car with his friends - Spry can only find comfort in sleep, the cold, the woods, and in his best friend John, who has a deep internal secret himself. And within our haunting and untouchable loneliness, we are separate but not alone.$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Life and Times of Grovey Cleves illustrated by Mickey Harmon written by Scott Mancuso
FictionSeries of self generated illustrations paired with a narrative penned by Scott Mancuso which was developed into a graphic novel.$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Quarry and The Lot by Mark Wallace
FictionJoseph Klein was a brilliant boy, talented—and dangerous. When he dies, at age 32, under uncertain circumstances, a group of his former friends gather for his funeral and see each other for the first time in some years. How did Joseph change them and what does he mean to them? What do they mean to each other, and why have their lives come to be what they are? The Quarry And The Lot is a novel about love and its limits, memory and history. It explores whether any truth can be stable when what’s happening is changed by what people understand and where what passes for normal is something far more frightening.$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Strikeout Artist by Joseph Bates
Fiction, New ReleasesYou don’t have to know anything about baseball to fall in love with this astonishing novel in which Franz Kafka performs as an unlikely star pitcher. Delighted by Bates’s kinetic, daring plot, you’ll have to stop often to laugh, then in the next moment you’ll be drawn up short in wonder by the surprisingly tender heart of this novel. —Lee Upton$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Sun Shows How it’s Done by Sandy Olson Hill
Fiction, New ReleasesSandy Olson Hill writes hard-hitting poetic short stories. This book is dark and moving, and it never flinches from the really tough stuff. —Jeff Parker$12.00 -
QuickviewThe Thirteenth Studebaker by Robert Wexelblatt
Fiction, New Releases$22.00Wexelblatt’s book is laden with wit, with wry observations, gentle sarcasm, and wicked ironies. It always has just enough laughter to keep its characters (and the reader) from spinning off into the abysses. —Fred Marchant, -
QuickviewThe Writers’ Circle and Other Stories by Michael Gessner
FictionIn this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized –– whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual –– and brilliantly inhabits them, evoking their passions, their yearnings, and also the rare strands of hope that sustain and illuminate. —Grace Dane Mazur$16.00 -
QuickviewTheoretical Animals by Gary J. Shipley
Fiction$16.00Beggars, fortune tellers, barge captains, bloated corpses, and the ominous tolling of church bells hover anachronistically over a bleakly existential world whose once-physically-present signs have been reduced to html code, rss feeds and online ad campaigns. —Michael Kelleher, author of Human Scale and To Be Sung
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QuickviewThere’s Something Wrong With Sven by Greg Gerke
FictionFull of twists and turns, Greg Gerke's debut collection is more powerful than fun; each character has flavor, the situations stick, the work is unique. There's Something Wrong with Sven, but this book is right on. —Kim Chinquee$16.00 -
QuickviewThirty Miles To Rosebud by Barbara Henning
FictionThis On the Road story zig zags the America grain, a rebellious woman’s experience, and the consequences of the Vietnam era. Barbara Henning’s clean, stark realism rejoices and laments the left and the lost, what can and can’t be found in time and mind. —Gloria Frym$18.00 -
QuickviewTo The River by Diana Adams
FictionDiana S. Adams’ To The River, is a delicious novella – the first of a trilogy – that is both resolutely gritty and often magical. It’s a wonderful, modern-day exploration of urban life, with characters who stick to the ribs and travel well past the final pages. Adams is a spare, clear-eyed and fearless writer who wades into the lives of her characters and reveals just enough to give them perfect breath. A mere glimpse of a character in an Adams’ novella is full meal – with wine, dessert and an espresso. She reveals the right flavours and readers come away with a full understanding, complete with unanswered questions.$16.00 -
QuickviewTrust Me and other Fictions by Chuck Richardson
FictionZiggy Fumar, author of The Electroempathy Specrtometer, considering what Trust Me does: "It gradually reverse-metastasizes via reverse-engineering the malignant psyche into a benign, Alienist attitudinal perspective—that of an egoless schizoid biological psychogeograph whose content seems the effect of form. But whose form, exactly? Think about it. If your thoughts seem the effects of their form, what kind of be-ing are you? What does Mind belong to?"$16.00 -
QuickviewWalking Dreams, Selected Early Tales by Mark Wallace
FictionMark Wallace writes like an avant-garde poet who knows how to tell a good story. Or like a fiction writer who knows how to fill his prose with cutting edge poetry. —Stephen-Paul Martin$16.00 -
QuickviewWar on Words : The John Bradley/Tomaz Salamun* Confusement
Fiction"Wow! It might be Nonsalamuns may not enjoy as much as I did, but for our tribe--- I went through different stages: shock, amazement, I was pale, laughter - a lot -, awe, guilt, aphssss!, even my mind wanted to take off for a moment, but mostly gratitude, I was moved; I am moved." - Tomaz Salamun$16.00 -
QuickviewWith One More Step Ahead by Goro Takano
FictionIn With One More Step Ahead Goro Takano has composed an amazing post-national post-apocalyptic encyclopedic philosophical trans-genre literary critical untranslated novel with poems about post-war Japan, African America, Hawai`i, film, Japanese literature, television news, dementia, paralysis, a sex cult, the atom bomb, gender, race, culture, the corporate state and much more. —Susan M. Schultz$22.00 -
QuickviewYet to Come by Cris Mazza
FictionDecades before #metoo, Cal chose his punishment for going too far with a girl he was crazy about: a life-sentence with a woman he could not love, whose frequent rages, untapped spending and ruthless children were his means to distract himself from longing and regret. The girl from his past also condemned him to periodic postcards bearing no return address. Rather than increasing his despair, the postcards helped stoke the imaginary life he maintained with her, including dialogue about his plight, images of her showing up while he plays his sax in a nightclub, and even sex, the very realm that had initiated her retreat from him.$18.00 -
QuickviewYou’d Be A Stranger, Too by Weston Cutter
FictionIn serial dioramas of "strange unpacking," Weston Cutter's Stranger invents a singing human science. With Nabokovian care, here are homes and lots and bodies, objects, inverted for their layers, laid open both in witness and design. Here is a calculus of hidden hours and the light of those and what was made between us. Here is a huge eye. —Blake Butler$20.00 -
QuickviewYour Disappearance by David Wirthlin
FictionThe marvelous inventiveness of David Wirthlin’s Your Disappearance will sweep over its lucky readers in waves. Look for it lightly disguised as canaries, pencil shavings, mysterious spirals, perpetually rotating rocks, recurring dogs and fields wherein one might just vanish. — Laird Hunt$16.00
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