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The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense Tim Kinsella
For all this novel’s depth of story, and that story’s grip and wealthy undercurrents, Tim Kinsella’s rushing, trippily meticulous prose is so exciting to follow that the story seems as much the novel’s soundtrack and topography as it is the… More
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The Universe in Miniature in Miniature Patrick Somerville
“Patrick Somerville is the most devastatingly sensitive badass nerd in contemporary lit. I love this book, with its weird art and crazy machines and secret agents and out-of-control love.” -J. Robert Lennon, Author of Castle
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Daddy’s Lindsay Hunter
“Each tiny, diamond story—precise, comic, poised at the edge of surreal—contains one brutal life force tearing itself off the page. You can hold Daddy’s in your hands and feel it breathing.” —Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation
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Sons of the Rapture Todd Dills
“An impressive booze-soaked debut, told from various perspectives with unapologetic frankness and raging fervor. Top 5 books of the year.”—Newcity
Billy Jones and his dad have a score to settle. Up in Chicago, Billy drowns his past in booze.… More -
The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg Springs Brian Costello
“With this book, Brian Costello has done the nearly impossible: He’s managed to document the secret world of a rock n’ roll band in hilarious, satirical detail. The Enchanters… is as important as Moby Dick: the song by Led Zeppelin,… More
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Scorch Atlas Blake Butler
“Butler is an original force who is fearless with form… The design is appropriately disarming, an apt part of the overall barrage by this inventive and deeply promising young author.”—Time Out New York
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This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record Susannah Felts
THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD is an incredibly intimate, thoughtfully written novel, a kind of snapshot album rendered in glimmering prose, one perfect record of the daydreams and nightmares of everyone’s years in high school.
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Hiding Out Jonathan Messinger
Illustrated by Rob Funderburk
“Messinger’s stories are aching, not bleak, and the collection, wittily and expressively illustrated with Rob Funderburk’s line drawings, is fun, engaging, and a bit more than thought-provoking. A fresh, spot-on debut.”
—Mark Eleveld, Booklist
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boring boring boring boring boring boring boring Zach Plague
Written and designed by Zach Plague.
“The effect is that of artist’s journal meets ransom note: the text held hostage by the design.”—Print Magazine
When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide… More -
AM/PM Amelia Gray
“At moments screwy, prickly and pleasantly surprising, Gray’s short shorts deliver youthful snapshots about being nuts in love… A delectable debut.”—Publishers Weekly
If anything’s going to save the characters in Amelia Gray’s debut from their troubled romances, their social… More -
The Awful Possibilities Christian TeBordo
“Christian TeBordo shows that it is possible to be, simultaneously, a wise old soul and a crazed young terror.”
—George Saunders
“Nine caustic stories by TeBordo find screeching ironies in rhetorical absurdities and writerly subversiveness. Bizarre and biting, these tales… More
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