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Author: Michael Cunningham, Jim Shepard & Cooper T

Our Summer 2009 debut anthology features the first published excerpt from Michael Cunningham's forthcoming novel. This issue also features new fiction by some of America's most innovative and important contemporary write ...

Author: Colson Whitehead, Lydia Davis & Marisa Silver

In Electric Literature's Autumn 2009 anthology of short fiction, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O'Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attemptin ...

Author: Kevin Brockmeier, J. Robert Lennon & Lynne Tillman

Our fifth anthology takes you on a journey from the suburbs to the underworld. In Kevin Brockmeier's tale, "A Fable for the Living," notes are passed between the living and the dead through a fissure in the earth. J. Rob ...

Author: Javier Marias, Joy Williams & Ben Stroud

Our fourth anthology celebrates the transportive joy of entering a vividly imagined world. Celebrated Spanish author Javier Maras spins a tale of a mild-mannered teacher turned ghost-hunter. Mexican writer Roberto Ransom ...

Author: Ray Robinson

Just her and her epilepsy: Lily's constant companion. But then her mother dies, Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she'd long since left behind. It's also somewhere disturbingly unfamiliar: newly reunited with o ...

Author: Hervae Le Tellier & Herve Le Tellier

By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life.
Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer moves ...

Author: Stephan Schwarz

"ELECTRIFIED" is no ordinary mystery. The detectives in Stephan Schwarz's novel hunt villains in an electric vehicle. The story makes for an entertaining ride which allows readers to cozy up to congenial characters: Fran ...

Author: Ronald E. Runge

Are you concerned for the safety and lives of your children and grandchildren?

Are you aware that Red China is establishing a military dominance over America, unhindered, in cyberspace?

Obama and his disarmament ad ...

Author: Eric David Berkus

Author: Eric David Berkus

Author: Kenny Estes

Kevin Estelle was your average teenager, insecure and too shy to talk to his secret crush. But when he performs a singular act of heroism on a field trip, he is given the powers to generate electric from his fingertips. ...

Author: Craig Michael Curtis

Robert Kimball is a bright, energetic young man, eager to break into the world of politics. But when events bring him into the tumultuous Washington political scene, he is sent off to a remote Mediterranean island countr ...

Author: Kathleen Tessaro

The Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most talked-about novels of 2003, now in paperback. Elegance. Audrey Hepburn had it. Grace Kelly had it. Louise Canova does not. Until one day, browsing in a second-hand books ...

Author: Christie Hodgen

Who are the people you'll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five: A skirt-chasing, car-racing uncle with whiskey breath and a three-day beard. A "walking joke, a sitting duck, a fish in a barrel" named Elwood LePo ...

Author: Prancing Thunder

Born in Maryland, Prancing Thunder, or Prance for short, now lives in the sweeping plains of Colorado, in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She is an avid reader and horsewoman, and in her spare time she writes, practic ...

Author: C.J. Driver

Six young men are arrested in Cape Town for subversion. Successful sabotage requires a high degree of loyalty, mutual confidence and efficiency; and it is an almost unbelievable shock when their betrayer turns out to be ...

Author: Benjamin Black

It's 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fre ...

Author: Benjamin Black

1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh fr ...

Author: Benjamin Black

It's 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fre ...

Author: Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs--psychologist, investigator, and "one of the great fictional heroines, equal parts haunted and haunting" (Parade)--returns in a chilling adventure, the latest chapter in Jacqueline Winspear's bestselling ...