Category Archives: Fiction
House Blend
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The Last Warner Woman
“This is a deceptive spellbinder, a metafiction so disguised as old-time storytelling that you can almost hear the crackle of home fire as it starts. But then it gets you with twists and turns, seduces and shocks you even as it wrestles with the very nature of storytelling itself. Like the best Jean Rhys novel it’s the story of women haunted by women, and of the dangers of both keeping secrets and saying too much.” —Marlon James
Windeye
“Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.” —Jonathan Lethem
Signed LP of Sings Bolling Greene (Soundtrack)
1. West Texas Winds 03:12 2. Now You Are a Country Deejay in Berlin 03:22 3. Days of Dayton, Nights of Columbus 02:36 4. Thank You for Your Postcard 03:19 5. Eternal Now 03:38 6. Sorrow Has a Basement 03:01 …
Signed CD of Sings Bolling Greene (Soundtrack)
1. West Texas Winds 03:12 2. Now You Are a Country Deejay in Berlin 03:22 3. Days of Dayton, Nights of Columbus 02:36 4. Thank You for Your Postcard 03:19 5. Eternal Now 03:38 6. Sorrow Has a Basement 03:01 …
Boarded Windows
“Boarded Windows is a shrewd and soulful novel. References (high and low, familiar and obscure) abound in this eloquent and unusual story of not-quite innocence lost. Hicks uses his intimate knowledge of American music to give us a precise portrait of Wade Salem, a self-taught, fast-talking half-genius.” —Dana Spiotta
Glass
From the acclaimed author of Firmin and The Cry of the Sloth—a widow, aging and alone, tells her side of the story.
Leaving the Atocha Station
“Utterly charming. Lerner’s self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own.” —Paul Auster
Sleight
“With grace and whip-smart wit, Kirsten Kaschock is a gift from the gods of young talent.” –Mary Karr
The Impossibly
“Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of Get Smart.” —Time Out New York
Netsuke
“Netsuke comes at the summit of Rikki Ducornet’s passionate, caring, and accomplished career. Its readers will pick up pages of painful beauty and calamitous memory, and their focus will be like a burning glass; its examination of a ruinous sexual life is as delicate and sharp as a surgeon’s knife. And the rendering? The rendering is as good as it gets.” — William Gass
Leche
A young Filipino American’s riotous adventures through the sprawling, tragicomic landscape of modern-day Manila.
“Linmark nails the excitement and terror of being young with a rare and moving accuracy.” —Spin
Extraordinary Renditions
Debut fiction by Andrew Ervin Music, war, and imperial ambition touch three lives in this intricately woven story. “Darkly evocative . . . the book has a prismlike quality; each story makes us see the city from a different but …
Horse, Flower, Bird
“Once upon a time, there was a lovely petal-winged book that had legs so small they poked into the tiniest capillaries of your heart, a mane that smelled like sea air and nostalgia, and a young girl’s eyes that promised penance prior to murder. . . . [A] kind gift from the vast imagination of Kate Bernheimer. Horse, Flower, Bird is a collection of eight stories–jewels that politely but firmly ask to be held up into the light, examined, perhaps coddled, maybe caged, and then, of course, set free.” —New Delta Review
I Hotel
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 1968-1977.
