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The Hieroglyphics Michael Stewart
Horapollo Niliacus, who most likely never existed, wrote the original Hieroglyphica. It was a collection of some 189 interpretations of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were entirely, and unintentionally, fallacious.… More
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The Lemon Grove Ali Hosseini
The Lemon Grove is a story of love, redemption, and the courage to survive in the face of calamity and loss. Twin brothers Behruz and Ruzbeh are in love with Shireen. When Behruz leaves America and returns to Iran to help… More
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The Orange Suitcase Joseph Riippi
In the thirty-four stories filling The Orange Suitcase, Joseph Riippi packs an intimate and powerful portrait of a young man’s life. From a childhood spent snipering neighbors with BB guns, to adulthood grasping… More
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The Patch Boys Jay Parini
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he … More
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The Return of Service Jonathan Baumbach
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short stories.… More
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The Salt Palace Darren Defrain
The marvel of this gritty and propulsive first novel is that Darren DeFrain, right out of the gates, has staked claim on a wild new territory of desperate love, alienation, heartbreak, and redemption. A stranger in his… More
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The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson Thomas Averill
Though it’s not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whiskey stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch,… More
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The Son Andrej Nikolaidis
Danny is an orphan. He lives in Maimonides Home for Jewish Boys. Danny’ 12 years old decides to run away to find a former orphan. He wants to save the home from being closed… More
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Charles Johnson
Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight extra-ordinary tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows – with fatal consequences.… More
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair Percival Everett
These stories by Percival Everett, teacher at the University of Kentucky and author of Suder, Walk Me to the Distance and Cutting Lisa, are unified by spare dialogue, tight plot development and out.… More
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Theater State Jack Boettcher
“Even though the principal in Boettcher’s Theater-State has a white tiger slumbering in his office, the school that Janus and Katydid and Cassie attend, with Ms. Denton, TX as their teacher, is all too… More
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Theodore Roethke Jay Parini
A biography of Theodore Roethke… More
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This Semi-Perfect Universe William Seabrook
“I dreamed of a snake that was digesting its own head using only math and sleight of imaginary hand, and then I read this, and know now that I’m a gifted psychic.” – Stephen Graham Jones… More
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Time Done Been Won’t Be No More William Gay
Time Done Been Won’t Be No More: Collected Prose by William Gay is a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs, and an interview. Gay is well known for his fiction but he is also widely published with his essays,… More
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Tiny Ladies Adam Klein
Tiny Ladies is a stark and suspenseful novel about remorse, the ironies of intervention and the terrible courage it sometimes takes to start again.… More
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Town Smokes Pinckney Benedict
Town Smokes contains nine stories set in rural West Virginia. The stories are masculine in tone, story, and character. Benedict’s world is a regional one, but the stories are universal.… More
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Trading Tatiana Debi Alper
Sparkling, fast-paced and blackly comic, Trading Tatiana is the story of an unlikely Good Samaritan and a runaway teenage prostitute determined to hold on to her secrets – and of the events that unfold when their… More
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Velocity Kristin McCloy
A novel exploring the connection between grief and love, this is the story of Ellie Lowell, a college graduate shattered by her mother’s sudden death, whose return to the rural North Carolina town of her childhood… More
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Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett
A veteran of the Viet Nam war returns to Georgia, drives across the country and has his car break down in Wyoming. He ends up sticking around this extremely small town with its odd population.… More
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Waste Eugene Marten
A spare and chilling account of the day-to-day experience of Sloper, a janitor in a big-city office building, WASTE explores the import of the discarded–for those who generate it, those who dispose of it, and … More
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What to Read (and Not) Tom LeClair
These essays and reviews are mostly about literary fiction published in the last ten years and are written from the perspective of a fan of the McElroy/Coover/DeLillo axis or, more recently, the Powers/Vollmann/Wallace… More
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Wittgenstein’s Lolita and the Iceman William Gay
Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain where a person’s love of life interacts with their fear of the dark unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches beyond death –… More
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Women Drinking Benedictine Sharon Dilworth
Each of the ten stories in Sharon Dilworth’s new collection has its special appeal; better still, they come together to form a finely crafted and beautifully balanced whole. Dilworth’s fully realized… More
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Women I’ve Known Greg Johnson
These twenty-four stories, seven new and the rest selected from Johnson’s previous four collections, range from ‘The Metamorphosis,’ in which a young female impersonator is torn to pieces by her fans,… More