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Hymn California
by Adam Gnade  Publisher Comments Born and raised in San Diego, California, Adam Gnade enjoys swimming in rivers and lakes, driving at night, and drinking red wine out of mason jars. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with two rescued pit bulls and considers himself a better than...
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Bicycle
by Paul Fattaruso Publisher Comments Somewhere between prose poem and sacred incantation lies Bicycle. In spare, comically surreal and beautiful prose, Paul Fattaruso does for bicycles what Richard Brautigan did for trout-he elevates them to the status of an idol. An intimate, inventive...
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The Brothers Rjukerooka: A Brief History of the Institute of Blinding Light
by Leon Harmon Publisher Comments According to the modest author, The Brothers Rjukerooka: A Brief History of the Institute of Blinding Light is the greatest story ever — or never — told. This heroic literary mockumentary examines the most overlooked adventurer/explorer duo...
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Help! a Bear Is Eating Me!
by Mykle Hansen Synopsis 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...
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Figures for a Darkroom Voice
by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson 
Powells.com Staff Pick These aren't just two guys with three names each; these are two of the poets to watch in the next generation. Gordon just won the National Poetry Series Open (judged by the legendary John Ashbery) for his book Novel Pictorial Noise, and Wilkinson won...
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Creamy Bullets
by Kevin Sampsell Publisher Comments Kevin Sampsell's largest and most ambitious collection to date, Creamy Bullets, captures the Portland author at the top of his game. Collecting everything from stunning flash fiction to his hilarious and intense longer stories, Sampsell's latest is a...
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In a Bear's Eye
by Murphy Publisher Comments The title story was included in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2007....
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My Last Days Signed
by Lou Rowan Publisher Comments Lou Rowan's My Last Days takes us deep inside the American myth of Superman and Clark Kent where no prior version of our naturalized heroic savior's ineradicable story has dared to go. Be prepared for a wild ride on the back of the man of steel's...
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Alarm
by Mike Daily Publisher Comments ALARM carries on the humorously visual narratives of fictional character Mick O'Grady, introduced in Daily's first published novel, Valley (Bend Press, 1998). Of that novel, Ray Gun Magazine wrote, "Mike Daily packs so many stylish smash cuts into Valley,...
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey Signed
by Zachary Mason Publisher Comments Following the structure of the ancient Greek classic, The Lost Books of the Odyssey features alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original Odyssey and, equipped as well with a faux-authoritative scholarly introduction, richly carries...
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How To Build the Ghost in Your Attic
by Peter Jay Shippy Review Peter Shippy's verse novel begins as all novels should, with a cow crashing through the ceiling of its first-person narrator. Other delights ensue. Pound said Mauberley was his condensed version of a Henry James novel: How to Build the Ghost in Your...
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The Dream Sequence
by Kate Hunter Publisher Comments A woman wakes up with no memory. She has no recollection of who she is or of where she lives. She does not know who her friends are or who her enemies are. Trying to put the pieces back together, she relies on the experience of dreaming and the advice...
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The Golden Calf
by Henry Baum Synopsis Ray Tompkins is the kind of person you never get to know. He's the security guard, the factory worker, the man working the midnight shift. Nobody really understands Ray - not his coworkers, not his family, and certainly not the women in his life. There...
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Bill's Formal Complaint
by Dan Kaplan Synopsis "A chicken in orbit, an armless orchestra, all manner of objects wobbly and surreal, dire and dear, inhabit this haggard landscape of non-stop linguistic playfulness that translates into a lifelike postmodern everyman whose languagey bits coalesce long...
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Nightmare in Silicon
by Colette Phair Publisher Comments Getting medical tests performed on her to pay the rent, staying up all night with her scarred and strange friends, sharing beds with her boyfriend and whoever else comes along, Ymo's is a world so infused with sex that it's become an identity. Ymo is a...
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The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue)
by Carlton Iii Mellick Synopsis There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such...
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Falling from the Sky (Anthology)
by Craig Quackenbush Publisher Comments Cutting edge fiction for cutting edge minds. Thirty-seven voices from around the world come together to bring you forty-six stories that defy easy categorization: grit-lit, urban, surrealist, raw, outsider, bizarro, fringe, experimental. Subtle, yet in...
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Tortoise
by James Lewelling Review "Lewelling is a patient, crafty writer, building up his story slowly, as if by accidental accretion, the minutia of human experience laid bare with a pleasing revelatory exactitude. Absurd, impossible conclusions are frequent, but only in denouement do...
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Who's to Say What's Home
by Kim Calder Synopsis Kim Calder brings the heartfelt sense of loss to bear on her raw, funny, and heartbreaking debut collection of poems. As a first book which portends many more to come, it ranks with Sharon Olds' Satan Says, Dorianne Laux's Awake, and Richard Jones...
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Double Header Tiny Ron an Acquired Taste
by Suzanne Burns Review Suzanne Burns is obsessed with misfits. An Acquired Taste is a love story about a widowed street magician and a glass-eating divorcee. But Burns never treats her characters as one-dimensional freaks. She offers us a look past their exteriors, into their...
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