Essays and Fictions
By: Brad Phillips
4.42
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and proprie…
Want to Read $ 5.99"To be close to me is also to learn how to cope--to cope with how I cope."-Brad Phillips, Essays and Fictions
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1. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
2. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
3. Taipei
By: Tao Lin
3.33
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
"At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail i… read more
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- literature
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"On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in."-Tao Lin, Taipei
"Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off."-Tao Lin, Taipei
"Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusias…"-Tao Lin, Taipei
"He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or…"-Tao Lin, Taipei
4. How Should a Person Be?
By: Sheila Heti
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more
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- novels
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5. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
6. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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- literature
- novels
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7. The Sarah Book
By: Scott McClanahan
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more
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8. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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9. Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more
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- fiction
10. Shoplifting from American Apparel
By: Tao Lin
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Set mostly in Manhattan--although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsvill… read more
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11. The First Bad Man
By: Miranda July
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more
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12. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- short stories
- essays
13. Fuccboi
By: Sean Thor Conroe
3.07
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more
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14. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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15. Leave Society
By: Tao Lin
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—as an artist, a son, and a loner. A VI… read more
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- novels
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"Patched-together or hard-won coverings of positivity flew away with ridiculous suddenness, like hats, or else gradually and unceremoniously, over days, like paint."-Tao Lin, Leave Society
16. Essays and Fictions
By: Brad Phillips
4.42
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and proprie… read more
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- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- essays
- contemporary
- novels
"To be close to me is also to learn how to cope--to cope with how I cope."-Brad Phillips, Essays and Fictions
17. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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18. Body High
By: Jon Lindsey
4.20
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by m… read more
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19. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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20. Teenager
By: Bud Smith
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more
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21. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
