Dzanc Books: 412 books

A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach's latest novel, Dreams of Molly, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. A love story as only Baumbach can write, it is filled with the longings and lingerings, the sex and deprivation, the humor and heartache, and the New York...

Previous novel Twilight proclaimed to be the book of the year by Stephen King upon its release. Long-awaited novel, once considered lost, which has maintained intense interest among prospective readers over the ten years since it was initially catalogued. Several Gay titles in production...

“Poisonhorse is not only a miracle, but one of the saddest books alive. ‘I had a Time once,’ writes Wells, ‘but I didn’t water it and it never grew.’ It is in this no growing place where dear Poisonhorse and its archivist live, punctuated by fable, philosophy, and the fierce hunger to keep...

“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, ‘There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its claustrophobic core, this book is a love story about time and memory, fear and death. At its dreamlike...

The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. Jen Michalski examines the dangers of living...

"Matt Dojny's novel is a true delight. I can't think of any writer since Kingsley Amis who's been able to write high-minded comedy that packs such a punch. I've never enjoyed a comic novel more."—John Wray, author of Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep, and Canann's Tongue The Festival of Earthly...

"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love. Reading You is an affair to relish and remember."—Hilda Wolitzer With each new novel, Jonathan Baumbach nudges the parameters of the novel—this time his narrator remembers, or invents, or imagines, the life of a...

A man and woman carry out an unusual courtship through a series of letters that gradually strip away their facades. A husband and wife argue about an infidelity that may never have happened. A liaison that hinges on a lost car ends before it begins when dreams influence reality. And a man confronts the...

"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love.-Hilda WolitzerA staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach's latest collection, Flight of Brothers, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. The stories within are filled with the longings...

This collection was published as a print book by Knopf in 1992. Edited by Gordon Lish, stories from it have been included in O.Henry Prize Stories 1991, various Best New Stories of the South anthologies, and other anthologies.It was also one of the NYTBR Notable Books of 1992.

Worthy is the story of Ludmila-or Worthy, as she comes to be known-a “former” con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. Though there is much she won’t reveal, she gradually unravels the story of her love affair twenty years earlier with...

"Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style."-Washington Post Book World"McElroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon."-Harper's MagazineThe Iraq War, two platform divers, a California family, and within that family...

A nineteen-year-old protagonist gets caught up in a seductive ménage a trios in this exploration of obsession, violence, and love, and the points where all three intersect.

Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, Charmed Particles tells the intertwined stories of two families. Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India now working at the National...