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The Freak Chronicles Jennifer Spiegel
The short stories in this collection explore, both implicitly and explicitly, the notion of freakiness. They worry over eccentricity, alienation, normalcy, and intimacy. What is it that makes one a freak, makes one… More
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My Only Wife Jac Jemc
Ten years ago the narrator unlocked the door of a wrecked apartment, empty of any trace of his wife. As stunning as her disappearance is his response. He freezes on the facts of her, haunting his recollections. This is … More
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A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, and Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag Josh Russell
Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag’s early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels—Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska—the savages who captivate… More
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THE BACKSLIDER Seán McGrady
The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age sixteen, is out shopping. It’s Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and excitement—especially… More
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My Date with Neanderthal Woman David Galef
David Galef’s My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the winner of Dzanc Books’ first Short Story Collection Competition, responds to these and other questions: thirty-three visions of lives that—let’s hope—are far from… More
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Shopping for a Better Country Josip Novakovich
Shopping for a Better Country is a collection of narrative essays on family, history, and travel from Croatian-American Josip Novakovich, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.… More
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A Tendency to Be Gone Pamela Ryder
Product Description"Ryder’s is the rare and wonderful prose that engages all five of the senses."—Whiting Award winner Lydia Peele, author of Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Pamela Ryder’s… More
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All Over Roy Kesey
The debut story collection from Kesey includes nineteen stories previously published in literary journals such as Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s, and The Kenyon Review. The story “Wait” was included in the Best American… More
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Asunder Robert Lopez
The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez’s Asunder vary in length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are uncertain of … More
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A Night at the Movies Robert Coover
Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions–you name the type of movie and there’s a fiction within this collection to cover it–all written with the exuberance… More
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Gerald’s Party Robert Coover
Robert Coover’s wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse,… More
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Ghost Town Robert Coover
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger… More
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Pinocchio in Venice Robert Coover
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means… More
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Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author – already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel – as a writer of enduring … More
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The Origin of the Brunists Robert Coover
Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven… More
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Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? Robert Coover
Interweaves the fate of a cast of passionate–and lunatic–idealists of the Depression Era Left, and the rise and fall of a poet, womanizer, actor, union sympathizer and All-American football star known… More