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Cover of McSweeney's Issue 46
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014

In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even,...
Cover of The Middle Stories
by Sheila Heti
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. The Middle Stories is a strikingly original collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alternately...
Cover of Love, an Index
by Rebecca Lindenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg's billowing,...
Cover of Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

Laws for the Internet Age

by Cory Doctorow
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

“Filled with wisdom and thought experiments and things that will mess with your mind.” - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsIn sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success...
Cover of This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened—how a bridge...
Cover of Hot Pink
by Adam Levin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds,...
Cover of The Abridged History of Rainfall
by Jay Hopler
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid...
Cover of That Thing You Do With Your Mouth

That Thing You Do With Your Mouth

The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields

by David Shields, Samantha Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers—in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields—a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history....
Cover of In Case of Emergency
by Courtney Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

What do you do when you can't function? After rookie EMT Piper Gallagher responds to a call outside a Los Angeles shopping mall for a man who can only tell her, "I can't function," the question begins to haunt her. How will Piper continue to function despite the horror she sees working in...
Cover of It Chooses You
by Miranda July
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySaver, the iconic classifieds booklet that reached everywhere and seemed to come from nowhere....
Cover of Instructions
by Adam Levin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for...
Cover of Between Heaven and Here
by Susan Straight
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012

Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley behind a taqueria, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no one—not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son Victor who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling rock out of dryers in the Launderland, not her uncle Enrique,...
Cover of The Parallel Apartments
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam,...
Cover of Citrus County
by John Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

There shouldn't be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees...
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