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Irritant Darby Larson
Irritant is a contemporary novel, a work of contemporary composition and a work of contemporary art that consists of a single, monolithic paragraph, weaving language to create an expansive, mathematically restricted… More
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It Takes a Worried Man Tracy Daugherty
The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley’s narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience… More
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Lambs of Men Charles White
Returning from the horrors of the First World War to recruit volunteers in his remote Appalachian home, Marine Sergeant Hiram Tobit finds the country changed. His mother has committed suicide, dredging up old resentments… More
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I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur Mathias Svalina
I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur sets up, and watches through to failure, dozens of imaginative and often ridiculous businesses that heap one upon another, all the while unpacking a narrative of life without someone… More
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Imagined Places Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost’s Vermont, Faulkner’s Mississippi, Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia, Hemingway’s Key West, Steinbeck’s… More
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Inside Out Darren Defrain
Eleven short stories told by a variety of first-person narrators roaming the United States from the West to Wisconsin.… More
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Interior Design Phillip Graham
Interior Design presents a gallery of people who, for all their strangeness, seem deeply, touchingly familiar as they explore the designs of their private inner thoughts. Huddled under his covers with a flashlight,… More
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #158 Gregory Norman Bossert et al.
Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gregory Norman Bossert, whose story “The Telling” in BCS #109 won the 2013 World Fantasy Award, and Brynn MacNab. … More
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14 Stories Stephen Dixon
Stephen Dixon’s stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel–a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same… More
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A Man of Glass and All the Ways We Have Failed Jason Tyler
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed is a man being so much other than. How the love falls out of him, replaced by beads, by water, by nails, by cardboard. Bent on a curb, blowing kisses to dead lips in that window… More
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Ahmed’s Revenge Richard Wiley
Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling – before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation… More
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Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual Brad Barkley
A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison has been mourning for two years. Now living in small town West Virginia with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bill, Alison is unable to move on with her life. Finally, she promises… More
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All Gone Stephen Dixon
A collection of 18 short stories by a “very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary… More
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An Island of Fifty Ben Brooks
“An Island of Fifty is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, and flame. Old and stale literature won’t know what just hit. This is something new… More
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Anthracite Country Jay Parini
poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania… More
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Axeman’s Jazz Tracy Daugherty
A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty’s fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of … More
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Billie the Bull xTx xTx
Billie the Bull is a starkly frank book about a large woman, her son, and how the love she has for him allows to her to act beyond what the reader might expect. … More
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Black God Ben Spivey
“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, �There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its … More
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Black Maps David Jauss
Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction, Black Maps is a collection of nine finely worked stories charting the lives of human life on the brink; looking at their actions, their emotions, and how they react to the events… More
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Break Every Rule Carole Maso
In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized… More
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Chattering Man Merrill Gerber
Spanning the continent from Brooklyn and Miami to Pasadena and Berkeley, these stories and the characters who people them are as real as our own lives, and the reader is drawn into the essence of life in all its complexity… More
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Cookie Lily Mary Troy
Cookie Lily is a gathering of nine stories and one novella, mostly set in Hawaii, in which women confront yearnings and ambitions, a material culture and their own looks, and the disparity between what should be and what… More
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Crimes of Passion David Jauss
A collection of stories from AWP Award for Short Fiction winner, David Jauss.… More
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Cutting Lisa Percival Everett
Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world’s crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one… More