Paul A Toth
Maurice Melnick's imagination has forever painted an underwater world more
exotic yet safer than the one above. Now he sees in wife Sheila's smile all
the years he spent swimming away from her. He decides to fix that smile on
canvas, stopping time... (read more)
Evan Mandery
Mortimer Taylor Coleridge is a unique man. With a mind of rare mathematical precision, he is obsessed with imposing order upon the chaos of every day life. A once brilliant student of evolutionary biology at Columbia University, he has turned his back on... (read more)
John Freeman
Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by another move. How do we get out of what weve gotten ourselves into? How do we deal with whats been thrust upon us? Granta... (read more)
Mike Topp
Poetry. Fiction. SASQUATCH STORIES is a collection of poetry joke stories, each one better than the one before and after it. Cover art by Tao Lin. Illustrated by David Berman. "Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer—a miniaturist of nervous... (read more)
Keith Botsford (edt)
In Issue 13, "News from the Republic of Letters will feature "Cracks in the Sidewalk, Paint on the Walls--a story about New York graffiti artists--by the exceptional new writer Yesi T Mills, whose story in issue 12 was widely acclaimed. Keith Botsford... (read more)
Peter Sotos
"Proxy is a large-format compendium of five out-of-print and much-sought-after books by Peter Sotos: "Tick, "Lazy, "Index, "Tool, and "Special. "Proxy also includes a new introduction by Sotos.
Peter Sotos is one of the most controversial authors in... (read more)
Blake Butler
From the essay "Open Sesame" from Joshua Cohen: A writer stands outside a story yelling, 'Open Sesame!' and the story, as if a seed, opens. And treasure is found inside. That treasure, of course, is just another story, and it all begins again. From an... (read more)
Tom Neely
In the next installment of the greatest love story ever told, Glenn's mother is still living with him and Henry, until Glenn runs away. Henry, John, and Darryl comb a dozen familiar LA institutions to reunite our lovers. After being reunited during a... (read more)
