Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place prominently on a mantel in the Berlin residence he hoped one day to die in, an urn that would serve as a reminder of the perils and pitfalls of mediocrity."-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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1. The Vermont Plays
By: Annie Baker
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Includes The Aliens: an exploration of friendship and music in the lives of three misfits behind a … read more
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- short stories
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2. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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3. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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4. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- literature
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
5. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- audiobook
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6. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
7. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
8. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
9. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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10. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
11. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
12. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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13. The Water Statues
By: Fleur Jaeggy
3.49
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more
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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
14. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)
By: Dino Buzzati
3.53
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more
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15. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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16. The Famous Magician
By: César Aira
3.61
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
A certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown’”) strolls through the old book market in… read more
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17. A Devil Comes to Town
By: Paolo Maurensig
3.53
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more
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18. The Antipodes
By: Annie Baker
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
“Endlessly fascinating … The Antipodes leaves you glowing with a wondering satisfaction. I mean the… read more
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19. A Leopard-Skin Hat
By: Anne Serre
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt d… read more
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20. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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21. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
By: Yōko Tawada
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more
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