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The fragmented family history of a child given up for adoption, told through his birth parents and others.

Another great novel from Baumbach, it is filled with longings and lingerings, sex and deprivation, humor and heartache.

These stories explore generational intersections - teens making, and adults looking back on, choices that define their lives.

A hot young writer, Eugene Cross' writing is at once humorous and sexy, intelligent and provocative, and composed and controlled.

Here are essays from the Whiting Writers' Award winning author after he left the former Yugoslavia.

David Galef's stories, whether longer or as tiny one-page wonders, can contain both humor and fear.

Belfast in the 1970s. Marius Moonston, age 16, is out and the streets are filled with danger and excitement.

Ryder is a vigilance, a pervigilance, a field guide with scruples on every page." - Gordon Lish

An examination of the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of growing up and growing older through the prism of music

Poetry that shouts, snarls, laughs, and wants badly to believe we can all be better than we are now

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Following the ecological destruction of a futuristic version of Seattle, the city's inhabitants are forced to flee. An obscure author, who has stayed behind to care for his terminally ill mother, is drawn in by a mysterious group called "The Guild of Saint Cooper" who convince him to help salvage the city's future by rewriting its past. But the changes become greater than those he set out to make, and the city begins unspooling backward into i...

Following a fluke accident involving his five-year-old daughter, a father fears supernatural forces might be lurking in the shadows

Before his life went totally off the rails, Patrick O'Neil was living the punk rock dream, working at San Francisco's legendary Mabuhay Gardens, going on to become a roadie and then the road manager for such seminal bands as Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Subhumans, and T.S.O.L. But that was before his heroin addiction veered totally out of control. A junkie for eighteen years, O'Neil, the educated son of intellectuals, eventually turned to a life of...

Familial bonds are frayed as characters endure cold seasons both literal and metaphoric in these New England gothic stories

An in-depth look at how record collecting has shaped-and continues to shape-the author's life

Haunted by ghosts, a woman must make sense of what is real and what is a dream.

Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, Charmed Particles tells the intertwined stories of two families. Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India now working at the National Accelerator Research Laboratory. His wife, Sarala, home with their young daughter, Meena, struggles to assimilate to their new American cu...

Calloustown, the seventh collection from master raconteur George Singleton, who's been praised by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the "unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story, ” finds the author at the absolute top of his game as he traces the unlikely inhabitants of the titular Calloustown in all their humanity. Whether exploring family, religion, politics or the true meaning of home, these stories range from deeply affecting ...

David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer's block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back-until inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child.With his pregnant wife and young daughter in tow, he sets out to explore the myth of Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell. But as his investigation takes him deeper and deeper into the legacy of...