Fiction. Asked to lead an investigation by the Bureau into the inexplicable behavior of a town that has seemingly gone insane, a highly regarded psychology professor encounters absurdist leaders, madcap citizens, figures of questionable authenticity...
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Fiction. PICKY HUNTING: A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR finds Picky Hunting, a retired Jewish psychoanalyst with a strong background in English Literature (BA and MA from the University of Chicago) and a recent widow, fleeing the Chicago area where she...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award of the Innovative Novel. "Innovative and engaging from the start PLAGUE CITY draws the reader in with forms and a genreless narrative presented via reader participation. The prose so...
Fiction. The 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. The judge was the late novelist and great friend of JEF Books Jønathan Lyons, who said the following in his encomium for the novel: "This is a visionary work, one that c...
Fiction. In a new, expanded edition! Female barbers attached to a pair of scissors that won't stop, women who can't conceal hard-earned wads of hundred dollar bills sticking up under their polka dot bikini bottoms, adulteresses who bludgeon their hu...
Fiction. "Ryan Madej is an increasingly rarefied beast (or talent, I prefer beast but options). To call his work experimental or surreal feels crude. However much it resists classification, Madej's artistic search is the unmistakably authentic offsp...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. In EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS thirty-four writers and critics reflect upon how literature puts itself to the test in an effort to make itself new. Those reflections assume very different shapes, ...
Fiction. Translated by Flavia Cosma. DEATH AT HALF MAST is the first novel by Denis Emorine. For him, this novel is a watermark of his work. He presents his favorite themes, especially love and death, which are brushing against, mingling, and confro...
Fiction. PORN-ANTI-PORN displays the body in pain & passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, erotic, anti-erotic, fiercely funny. PORN-ANTI-PORN is, finally, a brilliantly nuance...
Fiction. When Hy ("Mememo") Grader jumped or was pushed off the balcony of the famous art and literary club known as The Cliff Dwellers (founded 1907 as The Attic Club), a terrible event occurring on the same date (September 8) as Hy's father's deat...
Fiction. A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young girl with whom the husband falls in love.THE IGUANAS OF HEAT is an altogether differen...
Fiction. Driven by an unquenchable thirst for the unknown and boundless imagination, a boy learns about the nature of life in an idyllic pre-WW II Poland and nightmarish WW II Ukraine. Life in Yuriy Tarnawsky's latest novel is shown to have the warm...
Fiction. Experimental. Middle-aged bachelor Franklin Thompson and his widowed Mother Audrey live together in a quiet small town. But their lives are periodically marred by the repeated attacks of a horrid mental disorder which they share. These atta...
Fiction. Winner of the 2017 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. Dr Michael H.J. Tizard never quite got what he wanted from life, suffering quietly as his mentor took the professional plaudits and romantic affections that were rightly his...