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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life
Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life
by anonymous
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"Love Is Not Constantly is a small masterpiece of twentysomething romantic trauma – a book with real clarity of vision that reads, at times, like a horror story." Slate... (read more)

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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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Bluets
Bluets
by Maggie Nelson
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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets... (read more)

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Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay
Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay
by T Fleischmann
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"T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences—seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive—herald a new world, one in... (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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Cows (Little House on the Bowery)
Cows (Little House on the Bowery)
by Matthew Stokoe
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"[A] phantasmagoria of extreme violence, death, sex, bestiality, self-surgery, torture, and a really, really, really bad mother-son relationship, all of which takes what the marquis de Sade did and pushes it down the road a little farther. Stokoe is an... (read more)

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Ayiti
Ayiti
by Roxane Gay
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The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all interwoven to represent the Haitian diaspora experience.Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest where she is an Assistant Professor at... (read more)

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Angel Dust Apocalypse
Angel Dust Apocalypse
by Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Meth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free. From the radioactive streets of a war-scarred future... (read more)

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Scorch Atlas
Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
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In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of... (read more)

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One Man's Trash: Stories
One Man's Trash: Stories
by Ivan E Coyote
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A series of stories about being queer and searching out new frontiers.... (read more)

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I Am Secretly an Important Man
I Am Secretly an Important Man
by Steven Jesse Bernstein
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A (posthumous) collection of prose from the nearly legendary writer, junkie, wordsmith, sometime Sub-Pop recording artist, a and inspiration to Kurt Cobain and countless others. "The work is deeply felt...Bernstein has been there and brought it back... (read more)

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Baby Geisha
Baby Geisha
by Trinie Dalton
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Baby Geisha is a collection of thirteen sexually-charged stories that roam from the Coney Island Ferris wheel to the Greek Isles. True to Trinie Dalton's form, the stories in Baby Geisha are distinctly imagined while also representing a more grounded... (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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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
by Poe Ballantine
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Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine's world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author's by... (read more)

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A Simple Machine, Like the Lever
A Simple Machine, Like the Lever
by Evan P. Schneider
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Nicholas Allander, 31 — carless and careerless — is trying to get his life on track while holding his head high. He's trying to pay off his debt, impress his girlfriend, keep his job, cast off his introversion, and accept the world's... (read more)

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Help! A Bear Is Eating Me!
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me!
by Mykle Hansen
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Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature's finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons... (read more)

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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
by Alissa Nutting
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"Nutting's outrageous writing makes my face split with laughter. . . . She's glorious chaos and utterly original."—Lydia Millet "A dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to... (read more)

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Apeshit (Avant Punk Book Club)
Apeshit (Avant Punk Book Club)
by Carlton Mellick
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Friday the 13th meets Visitor Q. Apeshit is Mellicks love letter to the great and terrible B-horror movie genre. Six trendy teenagers (three cheerleaders and three football players) go to an isolated cabin in the mountains for a weekend of drinking... (read more)

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Grundish and Askew
Grundish and Askew
by Lance Carbuncle
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Strap on your athletic cup and grab a barf bag. The Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle is going to kick you square in the balls and send you on a wild ride that may or may not answer the following questions: what happens when two white trash, trailer park... (read more)

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Zine Yearbook #9
Zine Yearbook #9
by Joe Biel
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The annual anthology of zine reprints now includes relevant articles about the year in zines - super fun zine fests, life changing experiences, amazing pen pal connections, and stories from people who hold zines dear to their hearts. It's a... (read more)

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