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Michael Salerno is an Australian-born artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Paris. His work has been featured in numerous publications, on book and album covers, and has been exhibited in Europe, USA, and Australia. He also runs the press/label Kiddiepunk. You can visit his website here:
www.michaelsalerno.net
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COMING NOVEMBER 2013 !

NOTHING
NOVEL BY ANNE MARIE WIRTH CAUCHON

 

“
A burning mean and darkly
mysterious read
.”

—JOY WILLIAMS

 

THE ENTIRE WEST IS SEEMINGLY ABLAZE as James hitchhikes to town in search of clues to his father's mysterious disappearance two decades before. Instead of answers, he finds Ruth and Bridget, their days a haze of cocktails and pills, and their nights at the parties forgotten by morning. The smoke is thick, the yuppies are evacuating, and everybody's got a gun.
Nothing
announces an assertive new voice while also capturing the angst and foreboding that could mark it as an even grander generational statement.

 

 

 

 

COMING MARCH 2014 !

MADE TO BREAK
NOVEL BY D. FOY

 

“
Reading D. Foy's prose is like watching Robert Stone and Wallace Stevens drag race across a frozen lake at midnight
.”

—ANTHONY SWOFFORD

 

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves. With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and
Made to Break
, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE

A NOVEL BY BENNETT SIMS

 

“[
A Questionable Shape
] is more than just a novel. It is literature. It is life.”—
The Millions

 

“Presents the yang to the yin of Whitehead's
Zone One
, with chess games, a dinner invitation, and even a romantic excursion. Echoes of [Thomas] Bernhard's hammering circularity and [David Foster] Wallace's bright mind that can't stop making connections are both present. The point is where the mind goes, and, in that respect, Sims has his thematic territory down cold.”

—
The Daily Beast

 

 

 

CRAPALACHIA

A NOVEL BY SCOTT MCCLANAHAN

 

“[McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon… He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger.”—
New York

Times Book Review

 

“
Crapalachia
is the genuine article: intelligent, atmospheric, raucously funny and utterly wrenching. McClanahan joins Daniel Woodrell and Tom Franklin as a master chronicler of backwoods rural America.”—
The Washington Post

 

 

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

A NOVEL BY JAY NEUGEBOREN

 

“Epic…
The Other Side of the World
can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope… [An] inventive novel.”—
The Washington Post

 

“Neugeboren presents a meditation on life, love, art and family relationships that's reminiscent of the best of John Updike.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

 

 

SEVEN DAYS IN RIO

A NOVEL BY FRANCIS LEVY

 

“The funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte's
The Ask
.”

—
Village Voice

 

“Like an erotic version of Luis Bunuel's
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
.”

—
The Cult

 

 

HOW TO GET INTO THE TWIN PALMS

A NOVEL BY KAROLINA WACLAWIAK

 

“One of my favorite books this year.”—
The Rumpus

 

“Waclawiak's novel reinvents the immigration story.”

—
New York Times Book Review
, Editors' Choice

 

 

RADIO IRIS

A NOVEL BY ANNE-MARIE KINNEY

 

“Kinney is a Southern California Camus.”—
Los Angeles Magazine

 

“[
Radio Iris
] has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.”—
New York Times Book Review
, Editors' Choice

 

 

THE PEOPLE WHO WATCHED HER PASS BY

A NOVEL BY SCOTT BRADFIELD

“Challenging [and] original… A billowy adventure of a book. In a book that supplies few answers, Bradfield's lavish eloquence is the presiding constant.”—
New York Times Book Review

 

 

I'M TRYING TO REACH YOU

A NOVEL BY BARBARA BROWNING

 

*
The Believer
Book Award Finalist.

 

“I think I love this book so much because it contains intimations of the potential of what books can be in the future, and also because it's hilarious.”—Emily Gould,
BuzzFeed

 

 

THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS

A NOVEL BY GRACE KRILANOVICH

• * National Book Foundation 2010 ‘5 Under 35' Selection.
  
• *
  NPR
  Best Books of 2010.
  
• *
  The Believer
  Book Award Finalist.
  

“Krilanovich's work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins.”—
NPR

A new non-fiction journal of artful essays.

 

“The quality of each piece makes this journal heavy with literary weight.”

—
NewPages

 

 

 

 

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For Stephanie

 

Eternal thanks: Alethea Black, Giorgio Hiatt, Anna Stein, and John McElwee.

 

Copyright © 2013 by Jeff Jackson

All rights reserved

eISBN : 978-1-937-51214-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013945926

 

Artwork:
Michael Salerno
Image of crown
:
Graffiti Skull
, Matt Francis, July 5, 2009;
www.flickr.com/photos/mattfrancis/3732877231

 

Typeset in Garamond, the best font ever.

No portion of this book may be copied or reproduced, with the exception of quotes used in critical essays and reviews, without the written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's lively imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.