A fictional meditation on time and experience—part journal, part meditation, part dreamscape In language that is frank and uncompromising, Rob Stephenson’s debut novel, Passes Through, moves forward
A collection of stories that limn the dangers of domesticity In Lynn K. Kilpatrick’s In the House, anything can happen. A collection of shorts—lists, character sketches, directions, scripts, and ins
The Bruise is a prize-winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M- deals with the r
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the
This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in p
M - works in a dead-end job for the insurance and meager income. He's in a trough, and asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L - is a college dropout and
Set on the Blackfeet Reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of
The Illustrated Version of Things is the tale of a young woman, raised in foster homes, juvenile halls, and a mental hospital, on a quest to reunite her disparate family and track down her missing mot
A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plague Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly
The River Gods is a novel in fragments, a mix of fact and fiction, in which various inhabitants of what is now Northampton, Massachusetts, from the eleventh century through the 1990s, speak of their
A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing.TOKYO is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeA grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.The Making S
Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own. On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew
A fiction of the city as a chorus of voices, an entity that is both one and many Marream Krollos’s Big City is a structurally innovative work of prose composed of vignettes, verse, dialog
The landscape of this novel in storiesuJoseph Cardinale's first book-length work of fictionuis as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. Whether any person is the same from one moment to the n
"To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hiloriously inventive hollows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself,
Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel—through time, space, narrat
Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic—The Professor. While The Profess
