Two Dollar Radio: 37 books

"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."-Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."-O: The Oprah Magazine"Kinney is a Southern...

"Made to Break, D. Foy’s debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, and Made to Break ushers his literary energies into categorical existence."-The Daily Beast"Strange and freewheeling... forsaking plot in favor of something much more cerebral and immediate. Made...

"Jay Neugeboren’s You Are My Heart is an object lesson in imaginative empathy and observational intelligence. His fiction for years now has had the courage to be quiet and careful and comprehensively humane, but it’s in no way slight. One of his great subjects has been the damage that even the...

"Apocalyptic and psychologically attentive. I was moved."-Tao Lin, New York Times Book Review"A marvelously scathing indictment of a generation that has no choice but to burn. From Nothing’s outset, [Wirth Cauchon] crafts scenes with complexity and a scary prescience. [Nothing is] a riveting first...

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. *A Best Book of 2015 —NPR, BuzzFeed,Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy "Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. Gerard has channeled her trials and tribulations into a work of heightened reality, one that sings to the lonely gravity...

"Powerful. Koppelman's instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity."—Los Angeles Times"Koppelman explores with ruthless honesty a woman come undone."—Bookslut"Koppelman mostly writes from inside Laney's disillusioned mind, ricocheting between the quotidian...

* New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016. * The Guardian's "Not the Booker Prize" Shortlist. * Publishers Weekly's 'Big Indie Books of Fall 2016' "Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [The Gloaming] deserves major attention."...

With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel *The Gloaming—*which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood....

"To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr's lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl, there is no line Mohr won't cross, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation,...

**THE OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN EDITION "Beguiling, audacious... rises to its own challenges in engaging intellectually as well as wholeheartedly with its questions about gender, genre and the concept of wilderness. The novel displays wide reading, clever writing and amusing dialogue."...

"Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." —Carmen Maria Machado,...

Blurbs forthcoming from Kiese Laymon, and more TK Essays have appeared in different forms at the New York Times, MTV, The Fader, and Pitchfork Author is a columnist at MTV News

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist *One of the Best Books of 2013 ** —Slate, Salon, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent.  Literary...

Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they’ve been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit...