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Not For Nothing Stephen graham jones
A novel written in second person. The town is Stanton, Texas, population three thousand; the private investigator is disgraced Midland homicide detective Nicholas Bruiseman, who’s so down on his luck that … More
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Nothing in the World Roy Kesey
Winner of the Bullfight Little Book Prize, Nothing in the World received unanimously great reviews, sold out its original 2006 printing in just a few months, and has remained out of print ever since. Dzanc Books is … More
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Offerings from A Rust Belt Jockey Andy Plattner
Long-time jockey, Carl Arvo, and how decades in the saddle have taught him about all the things he can have and all the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming,… More
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Only and Ever This J. A. Tyler
In Only and Ever This, a family must endure father loss, a mother’s grief, and roiling adolescence, slipping as it does into arcades, caves, and the young love for a ghostly girl up the street… More
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Origins and Other Stories Angela Woodward
Winner of the 2015 Collagist Chapbook Contest. Provincial cineastes sit down to a hundred-year-long movie. The reader of an immense Hungarian novel descends the quiet corridors of its pages. An amateur archaeologist… More
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Origins of the Universe and What It All Means Carole Firstman
In her debut memoir, Carole Firstman traces her strained relationship with her eccentric and distant father, a gifted biology professor whose research on scorpions may have contributed to the evolutionary theories… More
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Rabbit Punches Jason Ockert
Riotously funny, beautifully written, and charged with emotional intelligence, this well-crafted debut investigates the world from the fringe through characters who stray so far from convention they seem to inhabit… More
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Rock and Roll Heaven T.C. Boyle
A trio of uncollected stories from early in T. C. Boyle’s career, Rock and Roll Heaven shows all of the qualities that had people excited about Boyle from the beginning—great ideas, dazzling writing full of wit, black… More
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Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story Max Apple
From the author of The Oranging of America comes this inspiring true story about an American family. Rocky takes over a family, at the age of 103, and shows them how to survive.… More
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Rubble of Rubles Josip Novakovich
In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment banker with Eastern European roots, goes bankrupt from the Enron fiasco, and moves to Russia to do some soul-searching. In the shadow of the Khazan… More
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Ruined a Little when we are Born Tara Isabel Zambrano
For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara Isabel Zambrano… More
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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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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