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Snow White and Russian Red

by Dorota Maslowska

“Maslowska’s prose squeals with directionless drive, whizzing like a drug-induced sensory overload: disjointed, formless, unleashed… It tires and invigorates. It also introduces an otherworld of lasting, unusual imagery… Snow White…

Various Voices

by Harold Pinter

“There is no playwright his equal. He is the natural descendant of James Joyce, by way of Samuel Beckett. Pinter works the language as a master pianist works the keyboard.”…

An Honorable Profession

by John L'Heureux

“An Honorable Profession is a novel about survival both personal and professional, not merely that but survival with dignity and self-respect. It is itself an honorable novel.” –Jonathan Yardley, The…

Sewer, Gas & Electric

by Matt Ruff

…future that Ruff admits is the present in drag. . . . [Ruff] might just be the fellow whom American literature’s been seeking for a long time.” –The Washington Post…

Q&A with Lauren Francis-Sharma, David Wright Faladé, and Tochi Onyebuchi

…hope that I am expanding our understanding of the African contribution to Americanness. And, because the cultural blending at the heart of Americanness is so tangled, the stories that I’m…

Nexus

by Henry Miller

“The Rosy Crucifixion may be Miller’s masterpiece. . . . The trilogy belongs in every American literature collection.” —Choice…

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, The Denver Post…

Gordo

by Jaime Cortez

Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation…

Closer

by Dennis Cooper

“The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.”—Bret Easton Ellis Winner of the Ferro–Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction From “the most dangerous writer in America” (Village Voice), Dennis Cooper’s Closer…

The Beholder’s Eye

by Walt Harrington

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…