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American Dust Revisited by Brian S. Ellis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.25 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Day Shift Werewolf by Jan Underwood Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by Anonymous Review "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) Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eyeheart Everything by Mykle Hansen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Divorcer by Gary Lutz Staff Pick 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Island of Fifty by Ben Brooks Review "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) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Broken Piano for President by Patrick Wensink PW Review "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) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last American Valentine by Derrick Brown Synopsis "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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler Synopsis 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Yeah. No. Totally. by Lisa Wells Review "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) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Over the Anvil We Stretch by Anis Mojgani Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One More for the People by Martha Grover Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dictionary of Modern Anguish by R M Berry Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins Synopsis 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Menstruating Mall by Carlton Mellick Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense by Tim Kinsella Synopsis 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory by Joni Tevis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #119: Granta 119: Britain by John Freeman Synopsis 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) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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