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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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Everyone has the relationship they look back on and wonder what the hell they were thinking dating and/or staying with this person for so long. This memoir perfectly captures the feelings that come years after that relationship has ended. You knew the... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #17: McSweeney's Issue 17
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #17: McSweeney's Issue 17
by Dave Eggers
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This quarterly publication has grown into one of the country's largest-circulation literary journals. It is committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward.... (read more)

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Gowanus Atropolis
Gowanus Atropolis
by Julian Brolaski
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. GOWANUS ATROPOLIS attempts to reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in "Manahatta" with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have... (read more)

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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu
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America’s favorite crypto-zoological hominid is hilariously recast as the modern-day everyman, struggling with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture, and philosophical quandaries (“Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit,... (read more)

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Rent Girl
Rent Girl
by Michelle Tea and Larenn McCubbin
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The second half of Rent Girl captures so well what San Francisco was like pre-dot-com and in the beginning stages of the dot-com revolution. This San Francisco got wiped out in the tsunami of tech cash that washed the alternative culture across the bay... (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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In a Bears Eye
In a Bears Eye
by Yannick Murphy
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The title story was included in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2007.... (read more)

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Tongue Party
Tongue Party
by Sarah Rose Etter
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“There are stories that show you the way things are, and ones that show you the way things might be, and then there are stories that tear you apart and build different things from the pieces. You might be happy with some of them, but I assure you, you... (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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Edie & the Low-Hung Hands
Edie & the Low-Hung Hands
by Brian Allen Carr
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Fiction. After murdering his elder brother, Marlet must flee the broken town of Victory. With his sword, our low-hung handed hero maneuvers his way through a decrepit southern desert murdering blank-skinned men, being pursued by his illegitimate son, and... (read more)

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Sleepingfish 0.9375
Sleepingfish 0.9375
by Derek White and Robert Lopez
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Magazine. Fiction. Art. SLEEPINGFISH 0.9375 is a literary magazine of experimental fictions, texts and art by Irana Douer, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons, Minju Pak, Girija Tropp, Deb Olin Unferth, Amira Hanafi, Annie Clarkson, Salvatore Difalco, Terese... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #42: McSweeney's Issue 42
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #42: McSweeney's Issue 42
by Dave Eggers
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With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!,Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literature—twelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining... (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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How I Became Hettie Jones
How I Became Hettie Jones
by Hettie Jones
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Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and... (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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Geek Mafia
Geek Mafia
by Rick Dakan
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Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul... (read more)

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Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry
by Gary Glazner
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One of the really cool elements about this thorough collection of slam celebrities are the many sidebar articles about the logistics and history of the slam. These articles include tips on how to memorize your work, how to do your own spoken word tour... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
by Chris Ware
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This issue is all comics.  It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: Lynda Berry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Malachi B... (read more)

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Zine Yearbook #9
Zine Yearbook #9
by Joe Biel
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The annual anthology of zine reprints now includes relevant articles about the year in zines - super fun zine fests, life changing experiences, amazing pen pal connections, and stories from people who hold zines dear to their hearts. It's a... (read more)

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