McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #15: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 15
by Mcsweeneys

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Issue 15 is also known as the "Icelandic Issue." Printed in Iceland, half of the stories are written by actual Icelandic writers. And the kicker? It also comes with an Icelandic tabloid mini-mag filled with words you won't understand and images that...
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Conjunctions #50: Fifty Contemporary Writers
by Bradford Morrow

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Winner of the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Literary Editing. Winner of a 2007 O. Henry Prize for Best Short Story. Winner of two 2007 Pushcart Prizes for Fiction, and four Special Mentions. Honored with two 2007 Harper's Readings...
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Cool Gardens
by Serj Tankian

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From Serj Tankian, lead vocalist for critically acclaimed band System of a Down, comes a striking debut poetry collection highlighting his best work of the past eight years. Like System of a Down's platinum-selling second album, Toxicity -- hailed by...
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Headpress #13: Plague
by David Kerekes

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Founder of Headpress, at the forefront of "transgressive"writing since 1991, and co-author of the books Killing for Culture and See No Evil. Author of Sex Murder Art: The Films Of Jorg Buttgereit. Contributed many texts on film and pop culture to the...
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The Session: A Novella in Dialogue
by Aaron Petrovich

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Funny, frantic, and with a subversive intelligence, Aaron Petrovich's Keatonesque heroes, Detectives Smith and Smith, stumble upon a bizarre new religion while tracking a murder victim's stolen organs. Their investigation leads them into a lunatic asylum...
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Nineteen Seventy Five Volume 2 Year in the L
by Mark Small

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It was the summer of 1975. The college sophomore has spent spring semester doing drugs, feeling his freedom, and having a good time with the debate team. But life feels like hell. He decides it is time for a regrouping and heads back "home" for the...
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #26: McSweeney's 25
by Dave Eggers

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"McSweeney's" began as a literary journal which published only works rejected from other magazines, but after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with "McSweeney's" in mind, attracting works from some of the finest writers in the...
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Riot in the Charm Factory
by Todd Colby

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The best of Todd Colby's Soft Skull poetry collections Ripsnort and Cush are here with new poetry and prose. This is simultaneously a "Best Of" and a launching into new directions for this intensely high-energy poet. He is a spontaneous, lively performer,...
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Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf
by Paul Fattaruso

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In this lyrical and highly visual modern-day fable, a man travels to Antarctica where he finds Isabella, a dinosaur, below a sheet of ice....
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First Things
by Tricia Yost

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Tricia Yost's manuscript came to me on a cold and wet day when I was
forced to forego cigarettes and drink inside the coffeeshop, among the
priapic college geeks and street people, the overflow from the adult
foster care community, and a little...
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ALARM
by Mike Daily

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ALARM carries on the humorously visual narratives of fictional character Mick O'Grady, introduced in Daily's first published novel, Valley (Bend Press, 1998). Of that novel, Ray Gun Magazine wrote, "Mike Daily packs so many stylish smash cuts into Valley,...
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Cool for You
by Eileen Myles

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Grainy, stained and stripped, this nonfiction novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of...
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Giraffes
by Steven Gillis

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A compelling collection of short stories chronicling the relationships of men and women living in material comfort but spiritual disquietude. Living on the edge happens in the most unexpected places....
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Road Movies
by Lee Ranaldo

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<div>Reminiscent of Kerouac and Bukowski, this collection of poetry by Lee Ranaldo, guitarist of seminal punk band Sonic Youth, mirrors the dark, emotive beauty of the band's wall-of-noise style. The poems were inspired by time spent on the...
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The Garden in Which I Walk
by Karen Brennan

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This extraordinarily polished and sophisticated story collection investigates the unaccountable ways in which literature and life entwine. In "Three Seaside Tales" a woman at a resort imagines herself in a Chekhov story only to succumb to banal...
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Jim & Dave Defeat the Masked Man
by James Cummins

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The sestina is a traditional poetic form that has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity, which promises to expand further with this witty illustrated cycle of poems. Casting themselves as poetic superheroes, authors Jim and Dave take on Osama Bin Laden...
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Cabinet #23: Fruits
by Sina Najafi

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From the Biblical fruit that brought about the moral downfall of mankind to "terminator" seed strains engineered to ensure that farmers have to buy new seed stocks every year, from banana republics to the annual tomato-throwing festivals in Spain, the...
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The Dark Magus & the Sacred Whore
by Mark Ramsden

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Meet Matt, he's an Englishman in New York, whose bad temper leaves people dead. In NYC he runs a Satanic services scam over the Internet. Sasha is Matt's live-in deity, a New Age sex magician, who tortures rock stars in her dungeon. And then there's...
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Serious Wackos Cartoons
by Mike Wellins

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The first ever book of all the best Freaky But True cartoons with essays and stories to boot....
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Love Block
by Meghan Austin

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"Love Block "is the winner of the 27th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, the annual Labor Day weekend marathon in which entrants around the world spend 72 hours writing a novel from beginning to end. The contest, inspired by the story that Voltaire wrote his...
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