-
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 -
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 -
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
![BlazeVOX [books]](https://wp.blazevox.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-BX-logo-top-sm.png){kind=logo}
The finest in global independent publishing.
Contact us at editor@blazevox.org