E.R. Baxter III
"This is a lifetime. This is the book. 'Everything is connected.' This prose is a life's work of writing the pattern of living. Reflective composition, digression is unique and compelling if the creative mind is mature and honestly vowed and woven. Sure it is with Baxter's. This is Baxter's design in form. It has been long in the making, as a life is, as is his life. I just kept reading. So it will just keep you reading as you just keep your living on the go." Michael Basinski, poet, author of All My Eggs Are Broken
Sarah Falkner
Winner of the 7th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
"Animal Sanctuary is an intensely focused, ambitious work with a wonderfully insistent sense of obsession. The novel brings together weirdly disparate elements in the same surprising way that life does. Returning continuously and seemingly helplessly to animals as a point of reference, Animal Sanctuary suggests that obsession may be the only way of pinning down the truth. This is a rich, interesting, multidimensional book that knows fragility and maps it." Stacey Levine
edited by Blake Butler & Lily Hoang
"If you're tired of the 'authorized version' and want a sense of where fiction is really going, what its future shapes and forms are likely to be, this is the place to start." Brian Evenson, author of Fugue State
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The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales & Stories
Stacy Levine
"Reading The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales & Stories is like exploring a city not your own in a robot submarine. Prepare for Stacey Levine's sentences or they will eat you. Take time off work, call in sick, give yourself a week. Like all good vacations, it's easy to move from weddings to wolves to sausages so quickly that all significance is lost, coalescing into one massive beast in your tinny mind—all because you're in rush. Slow down. Make soup. Kidnap sal bugs. Each tale requires its own moment." William Gallien, Alice Blue Review
re-release of A Heaven of Others
Joshua Cohen
"Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka." Michael Disend, author of Stomping the Goyim
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting
Winner of the 6th Starcherone Fiction Prize, selected by Ben Marcus
These fine stories, anthropologically thorough in their view of the contemporary person, illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved." Ben Marcus
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