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Into Thin Air Caroline Leavitt
Hours after giving birth, a young woman flees her baby and her husband and slips into a new life. With rare insight and compassion, Caroline Leavitt shows us the impact of that flight through the eyes of the husband and … More
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Irritant Darby Larson
Irritant is a contemporary novel, a work of contemporary composition and a work of contemporary art that consists of a single, monolithic paragraph, weaving language to create an expansive, mathematically restricted… More
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It Takes a Worried Man Tracy Daugherty
The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley’s narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience… More
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Judge Dwight Allen
When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he leaves his widow, two adult sons, and a more than devoted clerk to mourn him. The Judge-gentle, reserved, henpecked, and a lifelong Republican-was appointed… More
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Lambs of Men Charles White
Returning from the horrors of the First World War to recruit volunteers in his remote Appalachian home, Marine Sergeant Hiram Tobit finds the country changed. His mother has committed suicide, dredging up old resentments… More
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I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur Mathias Svalina
I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur sets up, and watches through to failure, dozens of imaginative and often ridiculous businesses that heap one upon another, all the while unpacking a narrative of life without someone… More
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Imagined Places Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost’s Vermont, Faulkner’s Mississippi, Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia, Hemingway’s Key West, Steinbeck’s… More
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Inside Out Darren Defrain
Eleven short stories told by a variety of first-person narrators roaming the United States from the West to Wisconsin.… More
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Interior Design Phillip Graham
Interior Design presents a gallery of people who, for all their strangeness, seem deeply, touchingly familiar as they explore the designs of their private inner thoughts. Huddled under his covers with a flashlight,… More
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Medicine Burns Adam Klein
Klein’s debut fiction collection brims with images of boys and men who just don’t fit in. They have acne; they are drag queens; they have club feet; they are social misfits; some even have AIDS. His variety… More
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Men Under Water Ralph Lombreglia
“In his first collection of stories, Ralph Lombreglia writes about being young and unsettled, about trying to connect and not always making it–or succeeding in startling ways. A powerful first collection.”–The… More
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Money, Love Brad Barkley
Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer’s porch, the deal about to close. But with each dizzying success comes an equally… More
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My Sister’s Continent Gina Frangello
MY SISTER’S CONTINENT is a contemporary retelling of Freud’s infamous “Dora” case study, following a loosely parallel plot and containing similarly controversial sexual themes and layers… More
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One Day the Wind Changed Tracy Daugherty
Another great collection of stories from Daugherty.… More
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Orrie’s Story Thomas Berger
A retelling of the Greek Oresteia trilogy through the lives of a seemingly ordinary small-town American family.… More
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Poisonhorse Brandi Wells
“Poisonhorse is not only a miracle, but one of the saddest books alive. ‘I had a Time once,’ writes Wells, ‘but I didn’t water it and it never grew.’ It is in this no growing place where dear Poisonhorse… More