Buffy is playing a game. However, the game is her life, and there are no instructions or cheat codes on how to win.After graduating high school, a voice called ?the text parser” emerges in Buffy’s hea
Sightlines from the Cheap Seats is the latest book of extraordinary poetry by prize-winning poet Joseph Di Prisco. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis has praised Di Prisco’s “strong and original
From Imperial Russia to Savannah, Georgia and beyond, a circus family, a once aspiring ballerina, and a scorned lover, set the stage and then draw the curtain to this saga of identity, fate, and the s
"When you’re on a three-and-a-half month voyage around the world, you ought to be able to sit and consider the sea."Will Post, a celebrated and sometimes controversial columnist, is a professor on the
Former porn star, Christopher Zeischegg (aka Danny Wylde), gathers six years of writing into one definitive collection. A memoir of an adult film career from beginning to end and a life lived after, m
Before Timothy Leary, before free love, before the word hippie became a part of the preferred nomenclature, Howard Bloom and his band of explorers were pushing boundaries and minds.Embarking on a grea
Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Point brings to life the American Revolution in all of its bloody detail.When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard
Eric McCanus is a novelist with the misfortune of having written his one great book when he was young. Struggling to write more, recently divorced, while still missing his ex-wife, Eric becomes convin
It seems like only moments after a child begins to string words together that they begin to ask questions. Why do trees grow? Why is the sky blue? Why does it rain? These are all very important questi
“I don’t know if I sought out bookselling, or whether bookselling sought me out. But when you are hiding from a past that can blow up in your face at any minute, immersing yourself in the stories of o
Live at the Safari Club: A People's History of HarDCore is the uncensored oral history of a notorious underground punk venue in the nation’s capital, told by the bands, fans, zinesters, promoters, gra
Dave Naz spent eight years photographing transgender, genderqueer, gender variant, and other people from the queer community. His zine Identity has been documenting lives, poems, and stories from the
"A large portion of this money, we of course have now learned, was put toward the scientific enterprise of discovering a new planet in the solar system and then, no other way to describe it, blowing i
"A perverse respectfulness compelled the demon within to acknowledge at the very last possible moment that it was about to take a human life."Every time he sees a commercial on TV, Lloyd kills someone
Walter Braum is pregnant with his own twin brother and, frankly, he’s having one hell of a time figuring out how to tell people about it. The forty pounds he thought he had accrued by gracelessl
In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, the Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is loosely based on the Sweany's tragicomedic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later ye
Jon Methven’s Strange Boat is the story of Danders Wake, a man raising money to build a new planet. The current world is evolving him outof his home, his job, his religion, his marriage, his sexuality
Set amidst the backdrop of the troubled town of Blackwater, New Jersey, a Bruce Lee and Bruce Springteen-devoted young hero journeys toward adulthood in this devastating yet intelligent debut novel fr
What do women want? Black women and white aspire to excel, empower others, and earn well in their careers, but confront different hurdles in pursuit of these goals, as they have started the race from
Natalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she’s s
