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“jess arndt”

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  • Large Animals

    by Jess Arndt ...
    Daring, witty, and strange, the twelve stories in Large Animals confront what it means to have a body. Jess Arndt's often-unnamed narrators battle with inhabiting a form that makes them feel both deeply uncomfortable and detached, constantly challenging the limits of gender and reality as they try to connect with other people and with themselves. These are stories that rebel against accepted ideas ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Large Animals

    Stories

    by Jess Arndt ...
    A Buzzfeed Best Fiction Book of 2017 • An Entropy magazine Best Book of 2017“Jess Arndt’s Large Animals is wildly original, even as it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature. Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.” —Maggie Nelson, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of The ArgonautsJess Arndt's striking debut ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    by Andrew F. Sullivan ...
    All We Want is Everything, Andrew F. Sullivan’s exceptional debut collection of short stories, finds the misused and forgotten, the places in between, the borderlands on the edge of town where dead fields alternate with empty warehouses—places where men and women clutch tightly at whatever fragments remain. Motels are packed with human cargo, while parole is just another state of being. Christmas ... Read more

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  • T.C. Boyle Stories

    by T.C. Boyle ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The first volume of collected short fiction from the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring sixty-eight “varied, clever, and delightful” (The Chicago Tribune) short stories, including seven never-before-published tales“Each [story hops] with manic energy . . . at his vaulting, imaginative best Boyle suggests the bastard child of Flannery O’Connor ... Read more

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  • The One Inside

    by Sam Shepard ...
    The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees ... Read more

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  • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

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    by Mark Leyner ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Relive Box and Other Stories

    by T.C. Boyle ...
    While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Invaders

    22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature

    by W. P. Kinsella, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser ...
    The invasion of the future has begun.Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up.In these wildly-speculative ... Read more

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  • Twenty Funny Stories, Book 6

    by Margaret Radisich Sleasman ...
     Ever wonder about people who are always laughing?  They are usually remembering stories they have read in the TWENTY FUNNY STORIES books.  What do these things have in common? Juicy-Fruit gum, crazy drivers,  the look,  the social security office - they are stories in  Twenty Funny Stories, book Six along with many more to make you laugh out loud ... Read more

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  • Assorted Fire Events

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    by David Means ...
    Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and experiences, this story collection now stands as one of the finest of our time. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Instructor

    by Ann Ireland ...
    In this elegant novel of passion and art, award-winning Ann Ireland extends the boundaries of the traditional love story. The Instructor probes the nature of power shifts between man and woman, teacher and student. It is a story of needs that become twisted into obsession.Simone Paris is nineteen when she leaves a small town bound for Mexico with her art instructor, Otto Guest. Their affair is ... Read more

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  • Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain

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    by Lucia Perillo ...
    A stunning debut from an award-winning poet.Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo's story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who sell them door-to-door. An abandoned woman seeks ... Read more

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