Unnamed Press: 50 books

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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015

A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh's leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept of “the guest” featuring Etgar Keret, Mario Bellatin, Sesshu Foster, Ben Ehrenreich, Stacy Hardy, Douglas...
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Arcade

A Novel

by Drew Nellins Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

An unnamed man, in the wake of a breakup, begins frequenting a peepshow arcade where closeted men meet for anonymous sex. The arcade is a strange world, one where questions of power, race, and class collide with unhinged sexual desire, with fetishes, fantasies, and even occasionally love. The...
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by Jessie Chaffee
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

A young American woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout with starvation that has left her life and body in ruins. She is determined to recover in Florence, a city saturated...
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Deep Singh Blue

A Novel

by Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Deep Singh wants out - out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything, his dad passes his evenings shouting at the television, and his brother, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to...
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by Saad Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015

Two down on their luck black-marketeers, Dagr and Kinza, have inherited a very important prisoner: the former star torturer of Saddam’s recently collapsed Ba’athist regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him to Mosul. With the heat on, they enlist the help of Private...

MEM

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MEM

by Bethany C. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018

MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it. Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to...
Cover of One Life
by David Lida
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

Richard, an American in Mexico, helps save the lives of the guilty. A mitigation specialist, hired by defense teams on capital cases in the U.S., he combs the back roads of starving-to-death Mexican shanty towns and agricultural villages. Divorced, a failed novelist with no family, and not too keen on...
Cover of Blue Money
by Janet Capron
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

New York City, 1971, a balmy August evening: Just seven blocks from her childhood home, a young woman walks into a Park Avenue apartment and into the troubled arms of her first trick. So begins Blue Money—a mostly true account of life in New York's gritty downtown scene— and an intimate,...
Cover of West Virginia
by Joe Halstead
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie’s living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot - all while...
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The Long Fire

A Novel

by Meghan Tifft
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

Natalie is propelled through life by pica, a disorder that has her eating a wide variety of inedibles-from pencil shavings to foam peanuts to plastic doll parts. A lowly staff worker for the local news, she follows the inane demands of the station’s senile weatherman and comes home to an empty apartment,...
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Age of Blight

Stories

by Kristine Ong Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

What if the end of man is not caused by some cataclysmic event, but by the nature of humans themselves? In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are replaced by their doppelgangers, which emerge like flowers in their backyards;...
Cover of Walker on Water
by Kristiina Ehin
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007...
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by T. Sean Steele
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

-A very funny booksellers' book, perfect for gifts & recommendations - A darkly hilarious, sometimes surreal, coming of age story set in LA and Chicago -Inspired by author's real relationship with sister, very personal and relatable -Author is a former bookseller at City Lit in Chicago -Author...
Cover of Hunting Party
by Agnes Desarthe
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

The unsuspecting member of a hunting party in the French countryside, Tristan is out of place. Cajoled into going by his wife, who is anxious to ingratiate herself with the locals of their new village, Tristan’s companions are Pastis-swilling tough guys with designs beyond catching dinner. Gentle,...
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