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Nonexistence by Kenji Siratori
Fiction"Kenji Siratori breaks new ground that others only dream.” — Alan Sondheim$16.00 -
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Patient 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 -
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Quinn’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 -
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Sidewalk 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 -
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Small 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 -
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Smoke 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 -
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So It Seams by Chuck Richardson
FictionChuck 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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So 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The 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 -
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The Thirteenth Studebaker by Robert Wexelblatt
Fiction, New ReleasesWexelblatt’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, -
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Theoretical Animals by Gary J. Shipley
FictionBeggars, 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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There’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