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American Dust Revisited
American Dust Revisited
by Brian S. Ellis
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American Dust Revisited was nine thousand miles in the making. Author Brian S. Ellis traveled to and through nearly every physical and mental state in America, breathing in the dusty experience and coughing up his unique perspective. Ellis shared his... (read more)

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Day Shift Werewolf
Day Shift Werewolf
by Jan Underwood
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It's not always easy to scare up a living. Warren, an unproductive, non-careerist werewolf, has been demoted to a very undesirable work schedule: the day shift. Is it the end of Warren's career, or a chance to muzzle out his true identity? Day Shift... (read more)

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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's tremendous appeal is in the tension between its clear-eyed, serious account of a difficult relationship, and its fun, nostalgic Choose Your Own Adventure aesthetic. But the book design serves a function beyond cutesiness: It is an implicit... (read more)

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Eyeheart Everything
Eyeheart Everything
by Mykle Hansen
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Eyeheart Everything is a collection of short stories and humor pieces by Portland writer and performer Mykle Hansen. Somewhere between the laughtrack of Mark Leyner's work and European surrealism, Hansen's stories shock, titillate, and bombard the reader... (read more)

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Divorcer
Divorcer
by Gary Lutz
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A breathtaking suite of sentence-driven stories that are as refreshingly funny as they are emotionally eviscerating. Linked by themes of broken relationships and mistrustful lovers, Lutz's newest stories are full of descriptions and observations so... (read more)

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Stories in the Worst Way
Stories in the Worst Way
by Gary Lutz
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Don't miss Stories in the Worst Way, the seminal collection by the writer who has been called "the master of the sentence."... (read more)

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An Island of Fifty
An Island of Fifty
by Ben Brooks
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"Ben Brooks is popping quarks with An Island of Fifty, spilling new flavors of literature on the swampy bookstacks of old. Call it new political, new ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism, or even new imaginary creationism. This book builds... (read more)

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Broken Piano for President
Broken Piano for President
by Patrick Wensink
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"Friends of Deshler Dean, the antihero of Wensink's psychedelic trip of a novel (after Black Hole Blues), call him 'the Cliff Drinker' because after two drinks 'he falls off a boozy edge and forgets everything.' Unbeknownst to Deshler, he's spent his... (read more)

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The Last American Valentine
The Last American Valentine
by Derrick Brown
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"The Last American Valentine," containing illustrated poems to seduce and destroy, is an anthology of exhilarating modern love poetry paired up with works by some of the best American graphic designers.... (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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Yeah. No. Totally.
Yeah. No. Totally.
by Lisa Wells
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"It’s audacious — hell, it’s practically painting a target on your ass and running through a firing range — for an author to come out of nowhere and try to speak for an entire generation. The important thing is, she’s here now, and we... (read more)

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Over the Anvil We Stretch
Over the Anvil We Stretch
by Anis Mojgani
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Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three-legged frog on the lawn, and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the... (read more)

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One More for the People
One More for the People
by Martha Grover
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Eight years in the making, One More for the People is the first collection of Martha Grover's zine Somnambulist. Playful, wry, and conversational, One More for the People chronicles three generations in the life of the Grover family. As these... (read more)

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Dictionary of Modern Anguish
Dictionary of Modern Anguish
by R M Berry
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Fourteen enactments of radical undoing by the acclaimed author of Leonardo's Horse and Plane Geometry and Other Affairs of the Heart. Reviews of unwritten novels, prefaces to fraudulent books, narratives of dictionary entries, and one interminable... (read more)

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Roomanitarian
Roomanitarian
by Henry Rollins
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In Roomanitarian, popular author, actor, musician, and spoken-word artist Henry Rollins returns to the combative prose that has won him critical acclaim and a legion of devoted fans. The book is divided into three parts: The first section, "Walking the... (read more)

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The Menstruating Mall
The Menstruating Mall
by Carlton Mellick
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Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves unable to leave the mall one day. There is nothing stopping... (read more)

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The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense
The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense
by Tim Kinsella
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Reunited for a funeral and leery of one another, a family compares splintered memories. Will bathes his grandmother. Mel gives her wig a haircut. Norman is not prepared to take over his fathers club. Jesse has never known how old he is. They each cope... (read more)

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The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory
The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory
by Joni Tevis
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“If a museum preserves things in part, Tevis reimagines them whole. . . . Sheer entertainment in the richest sense of the word.” —ORION “These linked prose pieces, arranged like specimens in a cabinet of curiosities, are concerned... (read more)

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Motherlunge
Motherlunge
by Kirstin Scott
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Fiction. MOTHERLUNGE is an eloquent and irreverent debut novel about first sex, true love, and chronic sibling rivalry; it's about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing life. It's motherly advice... (read more)

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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #119: Granta 119: Britain
Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #119: Granta 119: Britain
by John Freeman
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A nation defined by tradition and built on expansion, Britain now has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. Recently, Granta has explored Chicago, Pakistan and the world of Spanish-language letters. In this bold... (read more)

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