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Following her acclaimed debut,Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables.A Girl Goes into the...

Absolute AwayAuthor: Lance OlsenPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Apr 16, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539954ISBN-13: 9781950539956

In Selected Poems, Keith Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid in...

A girl with no name embarks on a three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liason is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional...

The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941. Over the next four years--from the initial invasion and sweep of the German army through the western Soviet Union, through the siege of...

April 1970: In newly independent Nigeria, a young man named Zanya works as a faithful translator and aide for the American missionaries who have set up post in his town of Rabata. When Zanya...

Originally published in 2005, Between Here and the Yellow Sea thrust Nic Pizzolatto into the literary spotlight, earning mention as one of Poets & Writers' top five fiction debuts of the year as well...

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...

Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion...

In a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and...

Eugene Cross captures much of his generation's fears and excitements with a collection of realistic stories that borders on darkness at times. His is a voice combining humor and pathos with an...

The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us. -Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & Love A...

My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt.--PopMattersSo there's video footage of me...

This memoir follows a punk rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it's like to look back on those times, knowing all the...

A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride. Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a...

Homesick: StoriesAuthor: Nino CipriPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: October 15, 2019Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945814950ISBN-13: 9781945814952

Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst tells the story of one...

In The Event Of Contact: StoriesAuthor: Ethel RohanPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: May 18, 2021Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539261ISBN-13:...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle...

These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes and recurring characters -- cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts and fools -- but mostly by the movie stars, gods and goddesses who look down on...

Movieola is a collection of linked short stories that delights and exploits the language and paraphernalia of industrial Hollywood. The collection delves into a night at the movies, featuring all the...

It's hard to be a teacher. Hard to be a father. Harder still to be a husband. How do you survive? You look for joy everywhere you can. You write poems about those moments to keep them alive in your...

This stunning collection introduces an important new voice in American fiction. The characters--among them a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran--grapple with...

Astunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from LaurenGroff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning andbestselling authors Amiddle-aged Black woman...

Rabbit PunchesAuthor: Jason OckertPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 182 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539415ISBN-13: 9781950539413

For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara...

Siege Of ComediansAuthor: Susan DaitchPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: 12-Oct-21Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539334ISBN-13: 9781950539338

Skin ElegiesAuthor: Lance OlsenPublisher: Dzanc BooksPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950539350ISBN-13: 9781950539352

From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country...

A 2013 SIBA Book Award Finalist Eleven stories, all previously published in journals like The Atlantic, Oxford American, and The Georgia Review, in which George Singleton brings small-town South...