Tag Archives: Literary

The English Teacher

by Lily King

“Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer.” —Claire Dederer, Chicago Tribune…

The Englishman’s Boy

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

“The Englishman’s Boy . . . [is] outstanding. . . . A complex, finely written story of deception, dreams, survival, and greed.” —Sybil Downing,…

Equal Affections

by David Leavitt

“A gritty, passionate novel . . . [Leavitt] has written from the point of view of a raging, self-dramatizing mother with clarity and with…

Elvissey

by Jack Womack

“Jack Womack is another of the heirs of cyberpunk, one of science fiction’s most interesting new writers.” –Los Angeles Times

Emmanuelle II

by Emmanuelle Arsan

“Emmanuelle Arsan has launched an all-out one-woman crusade to liberate mankind from the sexual taboos that have woven themselves into our moral nature.” —Panorama

Empire of the Senseless

by Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own…

Eighty-Sixed

by David B. Feinberg

“Wickedly fun . . . [Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit and total lack of sentimentality or self-pity. . . . A…

Electricity

by Ray Robinson

“Lily’s voice, and Robinson’s writing, is usually viciously sharp. . . . Robinson pulls out of Lily’s narration a blunt and almost brutal lyricism,…

Easy in the Islands

by Bob Shacochis

“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . ….

Echo’s Bones

by Samuel Beckett

A never-before-published short story by Samuel Beckett—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—with an introduction and critical notes by the preeminent Beckett…