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The Long Haul Amanda Stern
A college-aged alcoholic and his codependent girlfriend and their “relationship” are examined through the course of six years. He’s a musician with a decent-sized local following. She’s… More
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The Woman in the Oil Fields Tracy Daugherty
The themes woven through The Woman in the Oil Field involve action and passivity and the different perspectives they inspire. Tracy Daugherty’s characters walk the margins of life; seeking the safe periphery… More
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The Room Lit by Roses Carole Maso
From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards finalist and a Village Voice pick for Best Books of 2000. Maso chronicles… More
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Like Death Tim Waggoner
There are no words for it. Ecstasy is laughably inadequate, as are rapture, euphoria, bliss . . . . Ugly, harsh syllables that come nowhere near capturing the merest fraction of what he feels. The experience is primal … More
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #159 Gemma Files et al.
Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gemma Files and Hannah Strom-Martin.… More
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The Utopia MEGAPACK ™ Sir Francis Bacon et al.
Utopia. A community or society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. It may be a dream, but it’s a dream that has inspired writers for thousands of years. Plato’s “Republic”… More
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Late in the Standoff Tracy Daugherty
In this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people’s intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind… 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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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
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Say, Cut, Map Ken Baumann
“Say, Cut, Map stakes out a literary terrain that so far has no name. Its constantly shifting cartography is made up of severed hands, premature burials, hospital wards, and fragile families. This novel of compounding… More
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Seasons Smooth and Unkempt Henry Williams
A debut collection of poetry from Henry Williams.… More
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Teacha! Gerry Albarelli
Gerry Albarelli’s TEACHA! STORIES FROM A YESHIVA chronicls 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 Art of Subtraction Jay Parini
An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern issues in a variety of forms, while adding a highly musical sense of phrasing and a relentless sense of humor. Parini, as … More
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The Art of the Knock Phillip Graham
In the three-part title story of The Art of the Knock, a travelling salesman knocks with inventive delight on the stubborn, closed doors of his prospective customers – people who find themselves on the wrong side… More
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Lifelines Caroline Leavitt
A beautifully wrought and sharply detailed story of the intertwining lives of two women: Duse, a strong-willed psychic and Isadora, her daughter, who struggles to find her own identity. A masterful evocation of the… More
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Lookout Cartridge Joseph McElroy
It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche.… More
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Love and Will Stephen Dixon
20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic, sensitive, self-deprecating losers and loners.… More
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Make Me Work Ralph Lombreglia
Short stories by the author of Men Under Water show thoughtful, conflicted protagonists pushing for balance in their personal relationships and finding hints of meaning in the acutely perceived oddities of contemporary… More
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Meeting Rozzy Halfway Caroline Leavitt
An inspired story of growing up ordinary–and extraordinary–in the Boston suburbs. Meeting Rozzy Halfway follows a family falling apart at the seams when one daughter descends into madness and the second… More
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Nirvana Bites Debi Alper
Fast-paced and witty, Nirvava Bites features numerous sub-cultures – from New Agers to new technology buffs, from anarchists to fascists, from animal rights activists to abattoir workers, from media executives… More