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"Eleven stories of desire that traipse across their landscapes, rearranging the reader's expectations as they go. In Berlin, an American expatriate organizes a party, rescinds the invitations, and then finds the party thrown anyway with consequences that belie the devil-may-care attitude of the guests. In Krakow, a woman in tech with a questionable romantic past, and an even more questionable nipple piercing, runs into an old flame with a pressing problem of inheritance, atrocity, and identity that he'd love for her to help him solve. On Virginia's Jefferson Davis Highway, a woman and her husband--a newly minted citizen--travel through the legacies of American history to visit her estranged Korean War veteran uncle who's trapped by his own bitter legacies. Populated by fey expats, ardent psychiatrists, arch historians, and impossible friends who spin in and out of proximity to their narrators as they travel their enchanted orbits, Stevens' stories echo with a kind of urbane fairy-tale self-assertion that encourages the reader to stop and gaze in reverie at the articulation of the scenes, even as the stories' main characters go whirling off into their chaotic nights. Characters overlap in many of the stories. Rob the Ex in the punchy "Weimar Whore" is another character's "kinky historian" in "Ghost Pains." Sylvia who "lights up a room in her light-blue dress" in "The Party" is also Sylvia the hostile hostess in the final story of the collection, "A New Book of Grotesques." Yet, even the stories that do not share this revolving cast of acquaintances or have a gridwork of city streets in common are united by Stevens' impeccable artistry, which manages to overlay the gauzy romance of the stranger in a strange land atop the grim economic and interpersonal realities that so often accompany relative youth, relative freedom, and relative love. Erudite, eloquent, and bittersweet--these stories are like chewing on the orange rind for a last bitter taste of the drink."--Provided by publisher.

Fanciful, philosophical science fictions by the writer of Signs Preceding the End of the World, one of The Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

Childhood obsessions - from games to comic books - come back to haunt the present in hilarious and unsettling ways in a first translation of the popular and acclaimed Mari.

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse . . . C needs to put her medical debt and her sex life in order, but how to make concrete plans with this little visitor haunting her apartment, sporting a three-piece suit and delivering impromptu lectures on the vulnerability of the national grid? Moreover, what's all this computer code doing in the story of her life? And do the answers to all of C's questions lie with an eco-hacktivist cabal threatening to end modern life as we know it?

First (authorised) publication (in any language) of a wildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blog during the US invasion of Iraq

Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness PrizeKirkus Reviews, "Best Fiction of 2023"An artist of color becomesobsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispector andthe viscerality of Han Kang. Atan otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painterspots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterlywhite, the center of everyone's attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Koreanfather's abandonment of his family, as well as the specter of her beguiling, abusive white mother, the painter finds herself caught in a perfect trap. She wantsHanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, orsome confusion of all the above. Since she's an artist, she will use art to getcloser to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. Asfor Hanne, what does she want? Her whiteness seems sometimes as cruel as a newsheet of paper. Whenthe paintings of Hanne become a hit, resulting in the artist's first sold-outshow, she resolves to bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue theirwork, and her seduction. But, just when the painter is on the verge of her longsought-after breakthrough, a petition started by a Black performance artist begins making the rounds in theart community, calling for the boycott of major museums and art galleries for theirimperialist and racist practices. Tornbetween her desire to support the petition, to be a success, and to possessHanne, the painter and her reality become more unstable anddisorienting, unwilling to cut looseany one of her warring ambitions, yet unable to accommodate them all. Is it anywonder so many artists self-destruct so spectacularly? Is it perhaps just a bitexciting to think she could too? YourLove Is Not Goodstuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, betweendesire and art, and revels in the raining debris.

From the author of the acclaimed Pity the Best, a collection of new stories plumbing the depths of American laughter and evil.

What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief; the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude.

From the author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q, a chilling fable about the necessity--and impossibility--of productivity, art, and love in an age governed by capitalist logic.

Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling, and a browser's dream wish list of often overlooked and unloved novels, short story collections, poetry collections and works of nonfiction. In these pages, R. B. Russell, publisher of Tartarus Press, doesn't only discuss the books of his life, but explains what they have meant to him over time, charting his progress as a writer and publisher for over thirty years . . . and a bibliophile for many more. Here is living proof of how literature, books, and book collecting can be an intrinsic part of one's personal, professional and imaginative life, and as not only a solitary act, but a social one, resulting in treasured friendships, experiences, and loves one might never, otherwise, have enjoyed. Filled with a lively nostalgia for the era when finding strange new books meant pounding the pavement and not just filling in search engines, Fifty Forgotten Books is for anyone who wishes they could still browse the dusty bookshelves of their youth, and who can't wait to get back out into the world in quest of the next text liable to change their life.

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane ‿ perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose ‿ began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. As the reports grew, however, they themselves took on the form of a book, a book as beguiling and hallucinatory, in its way, as the works on which they were meant to report. These miniature memoirs or stories lead the reader through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances that gave rise to his writing, on images and associations, on Murnane‿s own theories of fiction, and then memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is, of course, on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration that accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving finale to what must surely be Murnane‿s last work, as death approaches.

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.

The future belongs to the migrant, the outsider, the foreigner. Long live our alien masters!

A master of contemporary Arabic fiction returns to English translation with a cunningly layered dark comedy about the powers and limits of creativity in a war zone.

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It's a full life. Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she's offered a more prominent gig: translating the latest book by an Extremely Famous French Writer who is not in any way based on Michel Houellebecq. As soon as she agrees to meet this writer, however, her other, more obscure project begins to fight back-leading Vanessa down into a literary hell of traps and con games and sadism and doppelgangers and mystic visions and strange assignations and, finally, the secret of life itself. Peppered with "sponsored content" providing cocktail recipes utilizing a brand of liquor imported by the film director Steven Soderbergh, and with a cameo from the actress Juno Temple, Bad Eminence is at once an old-school literary satire in the mode of Vladimir Nabokov as well as a jolly thumb in the eyes of contemporary screen-life and digital celebrity.

Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women over the 20th century, Alia Trabucco Zeran details not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as femmes fatales or hysterics - evil or out of control.

Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string - and love. In this novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places and persons through which love is made real.

An empowering feminist collection of new stories, essays and poems inspired by spring 2020, raising funds for domestic violence charities

Here in one beautiful collector‿s edition are Herrera‿s 3 era-defining novels: Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Kingdom Cons

A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alike

Turn that ugly flab into rock-hard abs with this one sardonic debut novel! (Doctors hate this.)

A major poet's fiction debut; a childhood not of screams but silence; a sensuous edge-of-danger tone, a la Deborah Levy

A gloriously eccentric fantasy by the "most profound writer of what we call horror stories." -Peter Straub