A ten-piece collection that puns on its own typos and describes itself as "ten of the stortest shories ever written." The pieces fold algorithmically generated language in with found and documentar...
Crocodile Smiles is Tarnawsky's collection of what he called short shrift fictions: compressed, absurdist, lit as if on a bright stage. The title asks whether a crocodile can smile if it cannot cry...
Longing Letters Lasting, Lasting Letters Longing is a short-fiction collection that takes a position about language: that meaning is made in words, not found behind them. The working premise is Bec...
Naked Lunch at Tiffany's: Erotic Classics Reimagined takes a single target and works it end to end: the erotic canon. Derek Pell rewrites and roasts the major works of classic and contemporary erot...
OD: Docufictions is a collection of thirteen short fictions built around a single fact: thirteen famous personages who either died of an overdose or were so invested in drugs that the drugs helped ...
Paris 60 is sixty short entries, some fictionalized and some factual, recorded across a Paris spring and written against the template of Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. The number is the structure: sixt...
Q↔A: An Auto-Interview is exactly what its title says: James R. Hugunin interviewing himself. The deluxe hardcover, lavishly illustrated in full color, sets questions against answers and threads in...
A book of short prose from the writer who spent his career shrinking fiction toward its essentials. The title is a pun: short tales told short, and the opposite of tall tales. Tarnawsky offered the...
Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics is Brion Poloncic's first book — his first work in any literary form after a recording career as A Tomato A Day, begun in 1993, and a self-taught visual-art practice begu...