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Green Girl
Green Girl
by Kate Zambreno
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Green Girl is the Bell Jar for today — an existential novel about Ruth, a young American in London, kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes. Ruth works a string of meaningless jobs: perfume spritzer at a department store she calls... (read more)

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My Only Wife
My Only Wife
by Jac Jemc
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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 the story of a man unable to free... (read more)

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Legs Get Led Astray
Legs Get Led Astray
by Chloe Caldwell
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Literary Nonfiction. LEGS GET LED ASTRAY is a provocative collection of essays that vividly rockets the reader through one young woman's life. Chloe Caldwell beautifully and bluntly escorts you through her childhood dreams, her first loves, her most... (read more)

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The Sky Conducting
The Sky Conducting
by Michael J Seidlinger
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Fiction. America died while no one was looking. All that remains is the skeleton of a land riddled with demise and what had once been referred to as domestic symmetry: those commodities we once called our friends, our colleagues, our neighbors."Michael... (read more)

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Beast
Beast
by Lisa Wells
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"Unflinchingly honest and deeply compassionate, the poetry of Lisa Wells demands our attention. Here is a compelling voice that speaks to things as they are, but that also echoes a hope for what they, and we, might become." --W.E. Butts... (read more)

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We Live Inside You
We Live Inside You
by Jeremy Robert Johnson
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WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is fucking terrific. Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. These stories have range and style and wit. This is entertainment... and literature.-JACK... (read more)

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I Remember
I Remember
by Shane Allison
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Inspired by the underground classic I REMEMBER by Joe Brainard, Shane Allison takes us on a fragmented, lustful, and poetic tour of his life, from a turbulent childhood in Florida to his life in New York... (read more)

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I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose Your Own Adventure
I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose Your Own Adventure
by Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson
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Poetry. Art. I TAKE BACK THE SPONGE CAKE is a choose-your-own-adventure collaboration between poet Sierra Nelson and visual artist Loren Erdrich. Each turn of the page features an ink and watercolor drawing, a poem, and a choice between two sound-alike... (read more)

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One More for the People
One More for the People
by Martha Grover
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Eight years in the making, One More for the People is the first collection of Martha Grover's zine Somnambulist. Playful, wry, and conversational, One More for the People chronicles three generations in the life of the Grover family. As these... (read more)

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The Handsome Squirm
The Handsome Squirm
by Carlton Iii Mellick
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A tale of marriage, child-rearing, and vaginas that eat people. A man is arrested in the middle of the night. He doesn't know why. He doesn't remember committing any crime. The cops drop him off in a small community in the middle of the woods where a... (read more)

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Cataclysm Baby
Cataclysm Baby
by Matt Bell
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Fiction. Beset with environmental disaster, animal-like children, and the failure of traditional roles, the twenty-six fathers of CATACLYSM BABY raise their desperate voices to reveal the strange stations of frustrated parenthood, to proclaim familial... (read more)

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Oregon Trail Is the Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail Is the Oregon Trail
by Gregory Sherl
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Poetry. Loosely or not so loosely based on the iconic computer game The Oregon Trail, THE OREGON TRAIL IS THE OREGON TRAIL chronicles the journey of a family on their way out West. Along the way, they fight dysentery, a racist Mel Gibson, syphilis, and... (read more)

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Portrait of the Poet As an Engineer
Portrait of the Poet As an Engineer
by Maged Zaher
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Poetry. "When I read Maged Zaher's poetry I am always intrigued by the questions he asks and amazed by the unexpected layers and turns. Practically every line leads elsewhere. Saints, sex, pop culture, dreams, romance, information technology, religion... (read more)

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Brontosaurus: Memoir of a Sex Life
Brontosaurus: Memoir of a Sex Life
by Leanne Grabel
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Brontosaurus, by Leanne Grabel, is a startlingly unique memoir that details-with deep insight and remarkable humor-the love and sex life of the author following the kidnapping and rape she survives one afternoon in 1972, when she is nineteen, sheltered... (read more)

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Broken Piano for President
Broken Piano for President
by Patrick Wensink
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"Friends of Deshler Dean, the antihero of Wensink's psychedelic trip of a novel (after Black Hole Blues), call him 'the Cliff Drinker' because after two drinks 'he falls off a boozy edge and forgets everything.' Unbeknownst to Deshler, he's spent his... (read more)

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Letters from Robots
Letters from Robots
by Diana Salier
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Letters From Robots is the first full-length collection of poetry by Diana Salier, an emerging writer whose run at what might be called 'confessional poetry' is built around turning many of the conventions of her forbears upside down. While a lot of... (read more)

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Variations of a Brother War
Variations of a Brother War
by J A Tyler
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J. A. Tyler's Variations of a Brother War glimpses at the lives of two brothers, and the girl whom each of them loves. Against the background of the Civil War, these brothers become soldiers, engaging in the most desperate kind of battle. With ornate and... (read more)

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Love Songs & Monster Songs
Love Songs & Monster Songs
by G.M. Holder
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Twenty years ago this April, the war that tore the former Yugoslavia apart in the early nineties came to Bosnia when a small group of Serb soldiers, hiding in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, opened fire on a large crowd of demonstrators surrounding the... (read more)

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Without Rain There Can Be No Rainbows
Without Rain There Can Be No Rainbows
by Ryan Chin
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New Zealand is home to wave-filled coastlines, meandering trout streams, and the intense Maori culture. For Ryan, an elementary school teacher, it's also a world where animals are loved and lost and a brother is gone but never forgotten. For years Ryan... (read more)

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Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake
Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake
by Heidi Lynn Staples
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“The book is freaky great. Hard-assed charm, brutal, elegant, funny. This memoir of a dark Florida childhood is unsentimentalized by cartoon drawings (cute and ruthless) and the substitution of one weird reverberating phrase for anything and everything... (read more)

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