Outpost19: 42 books

Using Gertrude Stein's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL J. ISENGART tells the true story of two eccentric expats who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world....

thiry short essays, crafted as epitaphs, each one unfolding in a single sentence

Nine stories by the author of the critically acclaimed colleciton, HOW ANIMALS MATE. A boy whose parents live apart decides to model himself after a neighborhood sociopath. A corporate systems analyst attempts to reconcile a homoerotic childhood with his conventional nuclear family. A divorcee...

Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs a successful San Francisco ad firm. His next big thing? A death row inmate, pay-per-view television and America's major corporations. It will be his greatest achievement yet... Charles McLeod's AMERICAN WEATHER is the debut novel from a writer of breathtaking talent.

Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. A virtuoso storyteller, McLeod employs a dazzling range of styles in these unflinching portraits of contemporary life.

An affair with a much older voice teacher leads a young girl into early marriage, leaving behind her Brooklyn family and friends for a new life shadowed by her husband's Old World expectations. Decades later, with her child now pursuing an art career in New York, mother and son come to terms with the...

On the humid pampas of Brazil, the hardworking Fonte family leaves their home when the military takes over the local mine. Uprooted to Porto Alere, father Antonio struggles in the crowded city, while Pablo, the oldest son, gets swept into the resistance movement. With Pablo's disappearance, Rose, their...

An island who becomes ambulatory and has adventures upon the land. A frigate captain with a singularly artistic method of punishment. Gulls who are players. Crabs who crack wise. A garage encrusted in blue crystals that harbors a secret. Rival haunted forests fighting for top billing. And a man who...

In his latest collection of short fiction, Eric Freeze puts his breathtaking talent in service of witty and heartbreaking storytelling. This is a dazzling mix that feels remarkably effortless, from "The Virgins" (an homage to Rick Moody) to the formally innovative ("Mr. America")....

The story of two professional and competitive tree-climbing brothers, both hungry for transcendence and adventure, coming to terms with their relationship to the divine, the family that first provided a framework for faith, and their own obsessions, victories, and failures.

Margaret Overton's Hope for a Cool Pillow is a passionate argument for planning end-of-life care. As physician, daughter and student of American health care, Overton pulls from all corners, showing us the emotional, financial and physical costs of not being prepared. Her daily rounds reveal harrowing...

Kama is a young woman living in a Viking settlement midway between Constantinople and southern Denmark in 900 AD. Her father is the son of King Gnupa, her mother a former slave. Tragic events set Kama on a journey to fulfill her destiny in Hedeby. Crossing the Baltic Sea to reach her grandmother, Queen...