This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a clean shirt before it loads the gun. You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am has the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to
College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny's, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manh
Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we’re somewhere new, and somewhere we’ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today it seems, that most of the ti
Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement a
A chapbook of short stories.Richie / Driveway / Go To the Beach / Should / Cancer / Dolphins / Christmas / The Walking Wall / Taipei, Taiwan / Mistake / Robbers / Candace / Drive / Canadian Sandy! You Will Never Read This Story! Good Bye! / The Novelist
from the Introduction:We knew from our earliest conversations that Coming & Crying was meant not to be erotic but true. We wanted to make a book that charged people with telling real stories about sex but didn't pressure them to turn anyone on. Coming
"Akashic launches a new series of crime anthologies, each focused on a different controlled substance, with this addictive volume."--
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"All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the
In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy a 23–year–old person attempts to explain to himself the possible origins, ends, and cures of anger, worry, despair, obsession, and confusion, while concurrently experiencing those things in various contexts including a
From rough optimism to sharp criticism, fifty American poets present new work dissecting the current political climate in America. Wide-ranging writers bring their bold voices to this collection, including Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, Rebecca Wolff, Terr
