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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 -
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 CARCASSES: A FABLE by Raymond Federman
Superstars— no need to say more about the pathetic failure of this revolution — what will happen in the zone of the carcasses will be told in a subsequent chapter — but as it is now said and repeated in every corner of the zone since the miscarriage of this revolt — the more things change the more they’re the same —$16.00 -
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 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 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
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