Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria whi
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death. When life dwindles to its ir
Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s MidwestThe Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvel
Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thing
Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary Aurelie Sheehan’s Once in
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves
A dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal Girl Zoo is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short sto
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
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
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeAn unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence—love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty&
An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America. It’s 2006, and a cloud of darkness seems to have
A mystery in two voices, Dirtmouth recounts the grisly murder of a young woman on Blackman's Heath, an ancient execution site in the Irish bogs. A pair of archaeologists, the obese and decadent Kraft
If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas, photographing products and business
Five Days of Bleeding is the black experience in sound, a fight to dance and celebrate cultural roots, and the struggle of a dark homeless woman, Zu-Zu Girl, to have voice in White America.Taunted by
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
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old ag
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic sto
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize In Natural Wonders, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan’s lecture seri
In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person.Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his
A deliciously satirical postmodern romance, Seven Wives reimagines the search for an enduring passionate love. The too-much-loved narrator, Jack, an extension of the everyman hero of Baumbach's novel
"I am a ventriloquist for love," declares the narrator of The Charnel Imp, as he dares the reader to locate his voice in all the familiar places of human affection. Yet the narrative of Alan
