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Mr. Agreeable
Author: Nesset, Kirk
Pub Date: Jul 2009; 108 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59539-021-9
Price: $11.95
Description:
Short Stories.
"In these stories, we remember our lives are indeed a
sequence of moments, with their distinct and defining
characteristics: they're like polaroids from a personal
apocalypse. There is a navigational alchemy in this
work, a mastery of subject and craft." —Kate
Braverman |
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Toothpick Men
Author: Moore, Dinty W.
Pub Date: Jan 2006 Rev. New Ed.; 158 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59539-004-2
Price: $14.95
Description:
Fiction. Short Stories.
With subjects ranging from gun-wielding therapists to
drunk taxidermists, Moore's exploration of human nature
in both its humdrum and its hilarity surely reflects his
work experience as a documentary filmmaker, professional
modern dancer, wire service journalist, and zookeeper.
His prose is sharp, his characters endearing, and his
wit always on target. Moore's other books included THE
EMPORER'S VIRTUAL CLOTHES and THE ACCIDENTAL BUDDHIST. |
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The Hummingbird Corporation: Stories
Author: Heyen, William
Pub Date: 2003, 2005; 224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9718059-2-7
Price: $14.95
Description:
Prose.
"William Heyen's brief
fictions are themselves hummingbirds: they hover, then
disappear into Emily Dickinson's 'route of evanescence.'
But when we look up from their pages, we still feel
their splatter and/or sense their iridescence in our
minds."
—Edwina
Seaver |
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Martians, A Creature
Author: Kress, Dave
Pub Date: Jan 2004; 246 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59539-000-4
Price: $14.95
Description:
Fiction.
Dave Kress draws us into the tale of Ray "Gnat" Smith
from a variety of perspectives: sometimes were ad Gnat's
first-person accounts, sometimes we find his discarded
rants; occasionally, Gnat is simply a face in someone
else's crowd, or his exploits related by a pack of
narrators, some kind, others openly hostile. But
Martians doesn't suggest that these perspectives add to
each other or to our knowledge of Gnat; rather it asks
readers to consider them as multiple subtractions:
without identity, knowledge, or ethics, just what are
humans and what kind of world do they inhabit? World
travelers alien in their own skin? Accidents of a nature
they themselves have constructed? Familiar and weird at
the same time, MARTIANS asks its readers to remove the
linchpin holding together the ordinary—and
then to stand back. |
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The Meaning of Lunch
Author: Leone, Dan
Pub Date: 2000; 257 pages
ISBN: 0-9666028-7-0
Price: $14.95
Description:
Winner of the 1998 Mammoth Books fiction award, THE
MEANING OF LUNCH is Dan Leone's second book. His work
has appeared in the Paris Review, The Antioch Review,
The Quarterly, and New Stories from the South;
he writes the Cheap Eats column and short fiction
for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "Dan Leone
gives us every wonderful thing that can be said of
Charm, Miracle, Tenderness, Passion, Whimsy, Passion,
and Fright." —Diane
Williams.
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