The Future of Giraffes is the middle book of Tarnawsky's Placebo Effect Trilogy, five mininovels at the center of a fifteen-mininovel cycle, and the only one of the three given over entirely to chi...
Like Blood in Water is the first volume of Yuriy Tarnawsky's Placebo Effect Trilogy, five mininovels that open a cycle of fifteen across three books. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear...
Return to Circa '96 is built like the institution it is about: its chapters are ordered by Dewey Decimal. The premise is a single year in the life of a small-town public library meeting the World W...
The Hunter is built around a single porous boundary, between a young orphan's waking life and a dream world that keeps pulling at him. The novel never settles which side is the real one. Its narrat...
Psychedelic Everest is Brion Poloncic's second book for JEF: a love story wrapped in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, punctuated by verbal hijinks, sweet and lyrical — a novella on the inevitab...
Passions and Shadows or Shadows and Passions (JEF, 2016) is the fourth novel in Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle, after Apostrophe/Parenthesis, Ambiguity, and Meanwhile.
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Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions is one of the late-career docufiction collections from Harold Jaffe. Docufiction, the short-prose form Jaffe wrote roughly thirty books in across four decades...
Something Is Crook in Middlebrook is the novel Derek Pell named "Best Experimental Novel of 2012," and it is the book that opened Hugunin's late-career fiction run at JEF. Arthur Strewth Middlebroo...
Elder Physics: The Wrong of Time is an illustrated novel built almost entirely from monologue. Gerald and his son trade witty, glancing talk about life inside an elder home, and as Gerald's body an...
Case X puts its narrator head-first into a Tomotherapy radiation machine and keeps him there. Across thirty treatments over six weeks, an academic in a life-or-death bout with salivary-gland cancer...
Between the Legs is the novel that won the 2015 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. The novel moves geographically: a couple travels from the Buchenwald concentration camp through Weima...
Synopsis of the Novel, 99 Waves
Written by the late author Persis Gerdes, 99 Waves is a visionary novel exploring the utopian possibilities we may still have available to us as a species. Disgruntl...
