Yongsoo Park
Fiction. Asian American Studies. Yongsoo Park, award-winning author of BOY GENIUS, presents a groundbreaking, stylized masterpiece documenting the most important forty-eight hours of a twelve-year-old's life. For narrator Peter Kim, life isn't easy. The... (read more)
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers launched Timothy McSweeneys Quarterly Concern in 1998 as an outlet for writings by himself and his friends, such as David Foster Wallace, who had been rejected by other, established journals. Eggers irreverent approach included a pioneering... (read more)
Mindy Nettifee
You do not want to write good poems. You want to write great poems. You want to write poems that challenge, inspire and awe. You want to write poems that forever alter your audience, that forever alter yourself. Those poems take guts. Glitter in the... (read more)
Dave Eggers
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... (read more)
Liz Belile
From lesbians writing gay male sex to straight chicks writing as horny men, this collection turns stereotypes on their heads. From the most subtle erotic gesture to the most extreme expressions of forbidden rage, the authors spill their inner sluts: butt... (read more)
Mike Daily
"Paperback evidence of evolution."--Jimmy... (read more)
Prathna Lor
Lor takes the L from Lutz (Gary) and the L from Lydia (Davis) and adds an either-or of elegantly psychotic desire. Imagine Hannibal Lecter talking to the moon. Imagine a man in a suit petting a whale carcass. Prathna Lor puts his hand up in these voices... (read more)
Ian Jack
Featuring Jeremy Treglown following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain, Tim Parks on the joys and sorrows of commuting from Verona to Milan, and Christopher de Bellaigue tracking down the Armenians in Turkey. Plus Todd McEwen on Cary Grants... (read more)
