Tag Archives: Literary

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…

Eden

by Olympia Vernon

“Daring [and] explosively supernatural. . . . [Eden is] a startling reminder of how forceful Southern magic can be.” –The New York Times Book…

The Driftless Area

by Tom Drury

From the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism: “Equal parts heist caper, ghost story and romance . . . in prose that is…