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Primitive Mentor by Dean Young Staff Pick Dean Young looks like a normal guy, but on the inside you'll not find a trace of conformity anywhere. You can barely go three lines without your brain trying to rewire itself. The latest book in Young's influential career (his ninth!), Primitive Mentor... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness by Amy L. Clark and Elizabeth Ellen and Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith Staff Pick This impressive anthology collects four of the best under-the-radar female writers of this decade. Each one presents a section of tight, angular, brave, funny, and innovative flash fictions. Clark writes explosive, playful brain candy. Ellen's work is... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry by Kim Chinquee Staff Pick Kim Chinquee's stories follow their own rules. They zigzag sentence by simple sentence, creating a dangerous territory that we can only detect by the emotional undercurrents she effortlessly creates. Like their titles, each piece is minimal in form but... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Calf by Henry Baum Staff Pick This tight little novel is a burst of comic angst and venom in the tradition of Selby, Bukowski, and Nelson Algren. Originally published by Soft Skull back when their books were glued in a basement apartment, this new version of The Golden Calf is part... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ever by Blake Butler Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Nellcott Is My Darling by Golda Fried List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Power Lines : a Decade of Poetry From Chicago's Guild Complex (99 Edition) by Julie Parson-nesbitt List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Waiting Really Means (American Literature) by June Akers Seese Staff Pick I recently discovered this mysterious book, What Waiting Really Means, and was instantly won over by its quirky charms. Seese, an author who has been unfairly overlooked for the last 20 years, writes like a combo of Flannery O'Connor and Lydia Davis.... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny but insistently generous A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lenny Bruce is Dead by Jonathan Goldstein Staff Pick Goldstein, a former fixture on the Montreal spoken word scene, delivers a disjointed blast of fictions (is it a novel, are they "deep thoughts," are they short stories??) with Lenny Bruce is Dead. The bite-sized chapters are full of skewed observations... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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