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Authors: Mark de Silva

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A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE
A NOVEL BY BENNETT SIMS
* Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize
*
The Believer
Book Award Finalist
*
One of the Best Books of 2013 —
Slate, Salon
, NPR’s ‘On Point’
“[
A Questionable Shape
] is more than just a novel. It is literature. It is life.” —
The Millions

 

 

THE ABSOLUTION OF ROBERTO ACESTES LAING
A NOVEL BY NICHOLAS ROMBES
*
One of the Best Books of 2014 —
Flavorwire
“Kafka directed by David Lynch doesn’t even come close. It is the most hauntingly original book I’ve read in a very long time. [This book] is a strong contender for novel of the year.” —
3:AM Magazine

 

 

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

 

 

CRYSTAL EATERS
A NOVEL BY SHANE JONES
“A powerful narrative that touches on the value of every human life, with a lyrical voice and layers of imagery and epiphany.” —
BuzzFeed
“[Jones is] something of a millennial Richard Brautigan.” —
Nylon

 

 

HOW TO GET INTO THE TWIN PALMS
A NOVEL BY KAROLINA WACLAWIAK
“One of my favorite books this year.” —Roxane Gay,
The Rumpus
“Waclawiak’s novel reinvents the immigration story.” —
New York Times Book Review
, Editors’ Choice

 

 

CRAPALACHIA
A NOVEL BY SCOTT McCLANAHAN
*
One of the Best Books of 2013 —
The Millions, Flavorwire, Dazed & Confused, The L Magazine, Time Out Chicago
“McClanahan’s prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails.” —
New York Times Book Review

 

 

MADE TO BREAK
A NOVEL BY D. FOY
“With influences that range from Jack Kerouac to Tom Waits and a prose that possesses a fast, strange, perennially changing rhythm that’s somewhat akin to some of John Coltrane’s wildest compositions.” —
HTML Giant

 

 

MIRA CORPORA
A NOVEL BY JEFF JACKSON
*
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize Finalist
*
One of the Best Books of 2013 —
Slate, Salon, Flavorwire
“Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson’s eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films.” —
Wall Street Journal

 

 

I SMILE BACK
A NOVEL BY AMY KOPPELMAN
* Now a major film starring Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles!
“Powerful. Koppelman’s instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity.” —
Los Angeles Times

 

 

ANCIENT OCEANS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY
A NOVEL BY DAVID CONNERLEY NAHM
*
One of the Best Books of 2014
—NPR,
Flavorwire
“Wonderful… Remarkable… it’s impossible to stop reading until you’ve gone through each beautiful line, a beauty that infuses the whole novel, even in its darkest moments.” —NPR

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