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Diary of Indignities
Diary of Indignities
by Patrick Hughes
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Diary of Indignities first foisted itself on an unsuspecting public on the popular blog Bad News Hughes, where thousands of readers are disgusted, amused, and just plain baffled every day by these vivid, seriocomic stories of soul-melting shame. Patrick... (read more)

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Awakening in Midair
Awakening in Midair
by Robert Bremmer
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Terrorism looms in the national consciousness. Angela McCulskin, an accountant, is on her way to a conference in New York. Level, at cruise altitude over Arizona, a bomb blows up on her plane and Angela literally awakens in mid-air. Steve Burnett, a work-... (read more)

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Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between (Conjunctions #52)
Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between (Conjunctions #52)
by Bradford Morrow and Brian Evenson
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Post-fantasy fiction that defies definition is at the center of a groundbreaking issue edited by Bradford Morrow and Brian Evenson in the Spring 2009 edition of Conjunctions. Imagine an everyday world in which meat is grown in vats by men called... (read more)

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Loser Makes Good
Loser Makes Good
by Greg Gerding
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“A colossal voyage of self-exploration, inebriation, social deviation, and intimate relations. I’ve set sail five times now, and each journey takes me deeper than the one before. Gerding takes a lot of risks with form, style, and content, and they... (read more)

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69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
by Stewart Home
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This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and her sex life revolves around the... (read more)

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Motivation and Toleration: The Story of Ishmael Hieronymus Shannon III
Motivation and Toleration: The Story of Ishmael Hieronymus Shannon III
by Ian Avi
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Ian Avi takes us on an electrifying roller coaster ride of his own personal neurosis. This dark comedy is an easy read with short chapters and a story that will get you hooked. Ishmael H. Shannon III is an anti-hero that anyone in our generation can... (read more)

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #24: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #24
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #24: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #24
by Dave Eggers
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McSweeney's began as a literary journal which published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind, attracting works from some of the finest writers in the... (read more)

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Beauty Plus Pity
Beauty Plus Pity
by Kevin Chong
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"Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."—Vladimir Nabokov In this tragicomic modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a... (read more)

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Border Town
Border Town
by Hillel Wright
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Fiction. The Pynchonesque life, loves and legend of a female manga artist whose controversial comix story challenged the authority of the Emperor of Japan. "I enjoyed BORDER TOWN and the author's wry sense of humor. Its semiabsurdist tone reminded me of... (read more)

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Grab Bag
Grab Bag
by Derek Mccormack
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Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada’s most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterized by McCormack’... (read more)

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Scott Bateman'; S Sketchbook of Secrets & Shame: Includes 14 Essays from Shamefully Famous Folks
Scott Bateman'; S Sketchbook of Secrets & Shame: Includes 14 Essays from Shamefully Famous Folks
by Scott Bateman
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Features 300 of Scott Bateman's unique comic creations. Mashing up pop culture with cultural neuroses in a single-panel one-two punch, his self-involved characters address their aphoristic confessions directly to the reader. Time and again, Bateman... (read more)

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The Show That Smells (Little House on the Bowery)
The Show That Smells (Little House on the Bowery)
by Derek Mccormack
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“Derek McCormack has written a mini-masterpiece that keeps swelling with invention long after you’ve put it down.”—Guy Maddin, filmmaker “A hilarious, strange and altogether ghoulish little freak show of a book . . . A book... (read more)

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The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis 3
The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis 3
by M. W. Anderson and Brett Alexander Savory
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On May 5, 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas, three 8-year-old boys were brutally murdered. They were found bound ankle-to-wrist with their own shoelaces, severely beaten and dumped in a nearby stream. Several weeks passed and police were stumped—not... (read more)

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Animal Rights and Pornography
Animal Rights and Pornography
by J Eric Miller
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J. Eric Miller grew up in a cabin in the woods of Colorado. That experience of silence, darkness, and depth is evident throughout the stories in this book. Typical is "Invisible Fish," in which a night clerk in a mall pet store tortures the animals at... (read more)

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Art Does (Not) Exist
Art Does (Not) Exist
by Rosalyn Drexler
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Art Does (Not!) Exist is lively, inventive, and artfully wicked. In the world according to video artist Julia Maraini , life is in need of tracking control. Personas warp and twist in a perverse parody of modern life that is, nonetheless, exactly the... (read more)

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Las Cucarachas
Las Cucarachas
by Yongsoo Park
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Fiction. Asian American Studies. Yongsoo Park, award-winning author of BOY GENIUS, presents a groundbreaking, stylized masterpiece documenting the most important forty-eight hours of a twelve-year-old's life. For narrator Peter Kim, life isn't easy. The... (read more)

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Blood Sugar
Blood Sugar
by Nicole Blackman
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Poetry. BLOOD SUGAR is a disturbing and evocative collection of new work and selected poems previously featured in Blackman's popular chapbooks Pretty, Sweet, and Nice. It is futile to resist her brutal accounts of obsession and beauty. So give in... (read more)

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Abecederia
Abecederia
by Blexbolex
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An illustrated narrative set in a Film Noir style cleverly incorporates an alphabet book for adults. Blexbolex's protagonists, Leon and Bernard Blanchett, two French gangsters, are hiding from an international arrest warrant in a mysterious jungle in... (read more)

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It's Mother's Day
It's Mother's Day
by Roger Aplon
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The political policies & social tragedies of the United States in the late 1980's & early 1990's provoked this honest & furious collection. These poems bristle with rage. They confront & challenge . . . Here are poems that demand to be heard. To that end,... (read more)

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Water & Power
Water & Power
by Greg Boyd
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From the Minor Russian Classic in highly-condensed form to the updated re-telling of the Lone Ranger tale in Tonto to the tabloid satire of I Married Elvis, the stories in this collection celebrate the unexpected, often unraveling in the process the... (read more)

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