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Sankya Zakhar Prilepin
Sasha “Sankya” Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation stuck between eras. They don’t remember the Soviet Union, but they also don’t believe in the promise of opportunity for all in the corrupt, capitalistic… More
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Secret Lives Catherine Browder
Browder’s second collection is characterized by the wide range of narrative voices she brings forth–a bilingual Hispanic social worker, an immigrant Russian Jewish chemical engineer, a young Japanese… More
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Settright Road Jon Boilard
In stories that Kirkus Reviews credits with “the brevity, sharp focus, and corrosive anger of good punk rock,” Boilard challenges us to root for these conflicted characters despite the weight of their human errors.… More
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Shoot the Buffalo Matt Briggs
Sweeping in scope yet unerringly precise in its detail, Shoot the Buffalo conjoins the dead end narrative of American masculinity with its stubborn twin – the Romantic ideal of nature – to suggest an ambivalent way forward,… More
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Siege of Comedians Susan Daitch
Connected across time by intersecting crimes and themes of language, cultural assimilation, and nationalist conflicts, Siege of Comedians, part political thriller, part comic noir, reflects on aspects of the… More
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Skin Elegies Lance Olsen
Skin Elegies uses the metaphor of mind-upload technologies to explore questions about the relationship of the cellular brain to personhood, memory, and where the human might end and something else begin.… More
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Stories from the Attic Nina Shope
Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories,… More
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Stray Decorum George Singleton
Eleven stories, all previously published in journals like The Atlantic Monthly, Oxford American, and The Georgia Review, in which George Singleton brings small-town South Carolina alive. Using everyday situations… More
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Strongman Matt Briggs
An Army Reservist, Ben Wallace, is a reluctant member of the U.S. Army Reserve. Yet, when he is called to duty in Operation Desert Shield, he realizes he wants to experience what his grandfather calls, “The Enlightenment… More
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Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva Gerry Albarelli
Gerry Albarelli’s TEACHA! STORIES FROM A YESHIVA chronicles a year in the life of a non-Jewish teacher and his students at a wild Hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn.… More
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The Anglerfish Comedy Troupe Colin Fleming
In eighteen thematically linked stories, Colin Fleming explores the ways in which relationships end, with a focus on the void a loved one leaves behind. In “Fire with Legs,” the inhabitants of a noise machine discuss… More
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The Annotated Mixtape Joshua Harmon
“Most of the time,” Theodor Adorno has noted, “records are virtual photographs of their owners.” The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal… More
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The Archive of Alternate Endings Lindsey Drager
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth’s visits by Halley’s Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared,… More
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The Australian Emma Smith-Stevens
Through this quest for self-discovery, the Australian becomes both more and less enigma: “the idea of this guy you could find in any city, a hostel anywhere in the world, smiling, suntanned, hauling a backpack.” A poignant… More
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The Avian Hourglass: A Novel Lindsey Drager
A reflection on the intersecting crises of mental health, the climate emergency, political polarization, and the exponentially growing reliance on technology, The Avian Hourglass culminates in a figurative and… More
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The Banana Wars Alan Grostephan
Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local economy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers finance… More