The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen
ISBN 978-0-9637536-6-3 | Fiction | 142 pages | $14 Buy today and receive free shipping! Available here and Small Press Distribution, through your local independent bookstore and Amazon. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen's exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. Praise for The Dreaming Girl Told in a series of elliptical tableaux and bound by stream of consciousness, Roberta Allen's The Dreaming Girl is an example of everything that shouldn't work, and yet it ...
Changing the Subject by Stephen-Paul Martin
ISBN 978-0-9637536-5-6 | Fiction | 204 pages | $14 Available here and through Small Press Distribution, your local independent bookstore, Bookazine and Amazon. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] In Changing the Subject Stephen-Paul Martin once again deforms traditional notions of the story, giving us beautifully digressive revenge-fantasies, his singular and uncanny brand of the shaggy dog yarn, and uproarious moral tales. Praise for Changing the Subject In Stephen-Paul Martin’s new book, utterly banal situations are transformed into something extraordinary. His stories are unbirthday presents from the Mad Hatter. He is one of our great deadpan humorists. —Eric Basso What’s so transformative in Changing the Subject is Stephen-Paul Martin’s wizard-like range of knowledge--quantum ...
The Harp & Altar Anthology,
edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim ISBN 978-0-9637536-4-9 | Poetry & Fiction | 336 pages | $17 + shipping Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim The Harp & Altar Anthology Also available through Small Press Distribution and Amazon.com. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] _____________________________ Since 2006, the Brooklyn-based online literary magazine Harp & Altar has emerged as an exciting new source for innovative and risk-taking literature. In its short tenure, Harp & Altar has established a home for serious readers attracted to its groundbreaking writing and original design. The energy and talent on display have been widely recognized—and now the best of this online magazine has ...
The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco
ISBN 978-0-9637536-2-5 | Fiction | 123 pages | $14 BEST OF 2009 Also available through Small Press Distribution or Amazon Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] Mapping a utopia on the brink, The Mothering Coven's rare blend of charisma and pyrotechnic wordplay makes for an utterly original act of storytelling. Bertrand has disappeared from the house she shared with seven women-artists, scientists, and of course, witches. As the women plan a party for Mrs. Borage's hundredth birthday, Bertrand's absence threatens to dissolve the world they've created. Praise for The Mothering Coven Ruocco's Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale, graceful and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon, reminiscent of ...
Shadowplay by Norman Lock
ISBN 978-0-9637536-3-2 | Fiction | 138 pages | $13 Winner of the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award! Also available through Small Press Distribution, and through your local independent bookstore, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess-by his art-a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. Praise for Shadowplay Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, ...
Waste by Eugene Marten
ISBN 978-0-9637563-1-8 | Fiction | 116 pages | $10 + shipping Or buy through Small Press Distribution, your local independent bookstore, Powell's, Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] Praise for Waste Dark and difficult, with clipped sentences and pungent passages, [Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers' waste and personal objects is queasy.... a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket. Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, ...
Fog & Car by Eugene Lim
ISBN 0-9637563-0-6 | Fiction | 263 pages | $10 Order Fog & Car: Buy through Small Press Distribution, your local independent bookstore, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. Review on Goodreads. [social_share/] Praise for Fog & Car In this astonishing, assured first novel Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog and Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about. —Lynn Crawford The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating ...
OUR LATEST TITLES: The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen ISBN 978-0-9637536-6-3 | Fiction | 142 pages | $14 Buy today and receive free shipping! Soon available through Small Press Distribution, and your local independent bookstore, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. Review on Goodreads. A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. "A warm, erotic book, not merely in its story and imagery, but in the very way its prose is structured...Reading this book has the effortless tug of slow ...
OUR LATEST TITLES:
The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen
ISBN 978-0-9637536-6-3 | Fiction | 142 pages | $14
Buy today and receive free shipping!
Soon available through Small Press Distribution,
and your local independent bookstore,
Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
Review on Goodreads.
A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves.
“A warm, erotic book, not merely in its story and imagery, but in the very way its prose is structured…Reading this book has the effortless tug of slow water in a jungle river, the buoyant languor of a dream.”
—John Olson, Rain Taxi Review of Books“A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed… The girl’s jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist.”
—Mary Mackey, The American Book Review
Changing the Subject by Stephen-Paul Martin
ISBN 978-0-9637536-5-6 | Fiction | 204 pages | $14
Also available through Small Press Distribution,
your local independent bookstore, and Amazon.
Review on Goodreads.
In Changing the Subject Stephen-Paul Martin once again deforms traditional notions of the story, giving us beautifully digressive revenge-fantasies, hysterical moral tales, and his singular, uncanny brand of the shaggy dog yarn.
“How marvelous to see the story so thoroughly reinvented and reinvigorated! Changing the Subject is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010.“ —The Review of Contemporary Fiction
“Changing the Subject doesn’t live up to its title, it consumes it. Though the stories make high use of syntactical or symbolic repetitions, they are also powerfully digressive, hallucinatory.” —Bomb Magazine’s Editor’s Choice
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ISBN 978-0-9637536-4-9 | Poetry & Fiction | 336 pages | $17
Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim
The Harp & Altar Anthology
Also available through Small Press Distribution and Amazon.com.
Review on Goodreads.
Since 2006, the Brooklyn-based online literary magazine Harp & Altar has emerged as an exciting new source for innovative and risk-taking literature. In its short tenure, Harp & Altar has established a home for serious readers attracted to its groundbreaking writing and original design. The energy and talent on display have been widely recognized—and now the best of this online magazine has been collected in The Harp & Altar Anthology, which features a selection from the fantastic poetry and fiction published in the first three years.
With writing by : Roberta Allen • Stephanie Anderson • Jason Bacasa • Andrea Baker • Jessica Baran • Jessica Baron • Shane Book • Donald Breckenridge • Michael Carlson • Joshua Cohen • Julia Cohen • Adam Clay • Lynn Crawford • Oisín Curran • Claire Donato • Farrah Field • Corey Frost • David B. Goldstein • Andrew Grace • Kate Greenstreet • Sarah Gridley • Emily Gropp • Evelyn Hampton • Jennifer Hayashida • Stefania Heim • Lily Hoang • Joanna Howard • Dan Hoy • Thomas Kane • Steve Katz • Karla Kelsey • Joanna Klink • Jennifer Kronovet • Norman Lock • Jill Magi • Justin Marks • Peter Markus • Eugene Marten • Stephen-Paul Martin • Zachary Mason • Miranda Mellis • Sara Michas-Martin • Patrick Morrissey • Ryan Murphy • Eileen Myles • Bryson Newhart • Linnea Ogden • Cameron Paterson • Johannah Rodgers • Joanna Ruocco • Elizabeth Sanger • Rob Schlegel • Zachary Schomburg • Kate Schreyer • Andrei Sen-Senkov • Brandon Shimoda • Peter Jay Shippy • Joanna Sondheim • Mathias Svalina • Bronwen Tate • G.C. Waldrep • Derek White • Jared White • Joshua Marie Wilkinson • Paul Winner • David Wirthlin • Michael Zeiss • Leni Zumas
Shadowplay by Norman Lock
Winner of the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award!
ISBN 0-9637536-3-0 | Fiction
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In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess—by his art—a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations.
“Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, negative reflections on a backlit screen, comprising, through artistry and brief illumination, ghosts. Lock’s teller is imprisoned by darkness, captivated by warriors and princesses no longer, if ever, living. Death becomes a distance from which the voices of these unliving return. It is a journey as delicious as it is threatening.” —R.M. Berry
“Lock …evokes a deeply sensual world in which the smell of cinnamon all but sings in the breeze and the sea beckons like a lover… Shadowplay is informed by so many stories… that I initially feared I’d need to haul out my old Bullfinch’s Mythology and a dozen other reference works. But I didn’t. The novel stands on its own and does its tricky work unaided, like the afterlife of a dream.” —The Brooklyn Rail
The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco
ISBN 0-9637536-2-2 | Fiction
“BEST OF 2009″
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Mapping a utopia on the brink, The Mothering Coven‘s rare mix of pyrotechnic wordplay and open-armed charisma is a defiantly original act of storytelling. Bertrand has disappeared from the house she shared with seven women—artists, scientists, and of course, witches. Even as the text occults itself in rarefied symbols, Joanna Ruocco’s virtuosic style pulls the reader inside an ever-widening, glowing expanse.
“Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!” —Carole Maso
“Ruocco’s Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale, graceful and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon, reminiscent of the works of such writers as Ronald Firbank or Coleman Dowell. It toys with language and knowledge somewhat like an emerald-eyed black cat in the book toys with a large bird. Batting it about playfully. Coaxing something new out of it.” —Robert Coover
Fog & Car by Eugene Lim
ISBN 0-9637563-0-6 | Fiction | 263 pages | $10
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“In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim renders the uncanny convergences of the lives of partners and strangers in a language entirely new. This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut. —Gary Lutz
“[A] disturbing mystery pitched somewhere between Mulholland Drive and City of Glass… [I]t never loses its appealing initial tone of aching loneliness, even as its characters and its goings-on grow increasingly supernatural. —Review of Contemporary Fiction
Waste by Eugene Marten
ISBN 978-0-9637563-1-8 | Fiction | 116 pages | $10
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“There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.” –Sam Lipsyte
“I will read anything [of] Eugene Marten’s for the rest of my life… His sentences are sentences in the realest application of the word, in that each one kind of condemns itself on the paper or in you in your own mind.” –Blake Butler
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