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Reverend America | Kris Saknussemm

 

An albino preacher known as Casper takes a spiritual odyssey through the American South.

Kris Saknussemm is the internationally acclaimed author of Zanesville, Private Midnight, Enigmatic Pilot and Sinister Miniatures. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nerve, The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters and elsewhere.

“Weird as a carnival midway, and real and tragic as blues harmonica. Reverend America is blisteringly good.” – Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander (Oprah Book Club Pick)

"One is hard pressed, when reading him, to recall the existence of any other reality." - The Boston Review


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SWELL  | Corwin Ericson

Off the coast of a tiny island a mysterious package goes missing. Rival whaling factions reignite an ancient feud when their paths cross. Korean smugglers want to open a bed and breakfast. A privacy expert sets in motion her plan to create a cell phone network using migrating whales.  . . . And Orange Whippey doesn’t like any of it.

"A raucous roller-coaster ride . . . Ericson’s tale reveals strong flavors of Tom Robbins, but there is also a splash of Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Just sit back and enjoy the long strange trip." - Shelf Awareness

"This delightfully loopy debut combines Down East deadpan with elements of Nordic mythology and Pynchonesque pyrotechnics. Ericson's Maine coastal setting lies at the edge of the surreal." – Publishers Weekly


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Thirteen Fugues |  Jennifer Natalya Fink

Tanya Irene Schwartz narrates her hilarious and conflicting desires through the musical and psychological structure of the fugue.

Jennifer Natalya Fink is the award-winning author of the novels Burn, V, and The Mikvah Queen. Jennifer is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C..

"Beautiful, dirty, spooky and sensitive in all the ways a girl can be these things: that’s this book. Thirteen Fugues is a lush, perverse enchantment." - Michelle Tea, award-winning author of Valencia and Rose of No Man's Land

"Reading Fink is like having access to the subconscious mind of a stranger who may well be mad." - Publishers Weekly


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Elynia |  David Michael Belczyk

Elynia is a lyrically-charged debut that examines four separate generations of characters whose varied struggles unfold in a kaleidoscope of expressive and fragile human need.

David Michael Belczyk is the author three volumes of poetry, Sometimes Form, Sometimes Vessel, Call It Perpetual and The Unexpected Guest. A lawyer and engineer, he lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

"Storms come and go and in our apocalyptic era grow monstrous. In Elynia, Belczyk's lyric voice and poignant portraits reconnect us to a perpetual shelter that's closer than we'd ever imagined." - Paul Nelson, author of A Time Before Slaughter


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An Dantomine Eerly |  Jarret Middleton
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The Irish-American poet Dallin recalls the surreal geography and traumatic events that lead to his death.

Jarret Middleton is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press. He has been profiled in Shelf Awareness and The Stranger as an up-and-coming independent publisher. His fiction and book reviews have appeared in The Collagist, Smalldoggies, Big Other, The Nervous Breakdown, Black Rose, Strike, Slingshot, and Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices. He lives in Seattle, WA.

"Eerly calls back to centuries of Irish literary tradition, from the aisling (a patriotic lyric poem from the 17th century with dozens of bizarre constraints) to James Joyce's giddy molestation of language." - Paul Constant, The Stranger

"[An Dantomine Eerly] sounds as if Charles Bukowski had suddenly been possessed by the spirit of Matthew Arnold. As if Dover Beach suddenly became Venice Beach, and the acerbic barfly a quixotic scholar gypsy. . . Middleton's language is chimerical." - John Olson, author of Souls of Wind and The Nothing That Is