Winner of the 2020 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel.
Four days before the presidential election, a bomb explodes on a Japanese cargo ship in the Port of Jacksonville, incinerating fou...
"Have you seen whales frolicking in the sea—giant masses of shiny wet flesh gracefully rising up into the air and then just as gracefully plunging back into the water? They do it not to catch flies...
Winner of the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award of the Innovative Novel!
"Innovative and engaging from the start Plague City draws the reader in with forms and a genreless narrative presented via reader p...
Asked to lead an investigation by the Bureau into the inexplicable behavior of a town that has seemingly gone insane, a highly regarded psychology professor encounters absurdist leaders, madcap cit...
Picky Hunting: A Journal of the Plague Year finds Picky Hunting, a retired Jewish psychoanalyst with a strong background in English Literature (B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago) and a r...
The 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel is Patrick Keller, of Long Beach, California, for his novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is.
The contest judge, the late novelist,...
"Ryan Madej is an increasingly rarefied beast (or talent, I prefer beast but options). To call his work experimental or surreal feels crude. However much it resists classification, Madej's artistic...
Death At Half-Mast is the first novel by Denis Emorine. For him, this novel is a watermark of his work. He presents his favorite themes, especially love and death, which are brushing against each o...
Porn-Anti-Porn displays the body in pain and passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely funny. Por...
When Hy ("Mememo") Grader jumped or was pushed off the balcony of the famous art and literary club known as The Cliff Dwellers (founded 1907 as The Attic Club), a terrible event occurring on the sa...
A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young woman with whom the husband falls in love.
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Driven by an unquenchable thirst for the unknown and boundless imagination, a boy learns about the nature of life in an idyllic pre-WW II Poland and nightmarish WW II Ukraine. Life in Yuriy Tarnaws...
