Absurdist
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Smash & Grab
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cart“A Canadian master of the form.”–Gregory Cowles, New York Times
A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part
- Author: Jarman, Mark Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1771966947
- Language: English
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By: Orey, Michael
Dean’s List
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA sharp, satirical romp through the absurdities of academia, where ambition knows no bounds and rankings rule all.
When Charles Ogden Dean III-better known (to his chagrin) as “Dean Dean”-takes charge
- Author: Orey, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798901741184
- Language: English
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Chasing Homer
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed–careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240908
- Language: English
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By: Saenz, Jan
200 Monas
$31.00PaperbackAdd to cartFor fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother’s surprise stash of rare pills, or… [more below]
- Author: Saenz, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 031660772X
- Language: English
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By: Perec, Georges
A Void
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation
A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User’s Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, ch- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928226
- Language: English
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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
$28.00HardcoverRead moreAn explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through … [more below]
- Author: Szpila, Agnieszka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700899
- Language: English
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Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
$27.99HardcoverRead moreA darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell.
And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?…
I would say I was Dan Moran, a Ko
- Author: Cottrell, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063435063
- Language: English
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By: Carroll, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
$20.00HardcoverAdd to cartOriginal, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland…. [more below]
- Series: Signature Gilded Editions
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1454961554
- Language: English
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By: Baxter, Ella
Woo Woo
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartA thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance
Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual ar- Author: Baxter, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1646223047
- Language: English
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By: Su, Maggie
Blob: A Love Story
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Su, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063358670
- Language: English
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By: Saenz, Jan
200 Monas
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartFor fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July-and the darker edge of Breaking Bad and Uncut Gems-comes a whip-smart, irresistible debut novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her re… [more below]
- Author: Saenz, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0316595888
- Language: English
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By: Poppick, Daniel
The Copywriter
$26.00HardcoverAdd to cartA portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.
It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up,- Author: Poppick, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1668090007
- Language: English
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By: Yagi, Emi
When the Museum Is Closed
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void
Rika Horauchi’s new part-time- Author: Yagi, Emi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1593768273
- Language: English
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One, None, and a Hundred Grand
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartA hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.
This uproarious new translation of One, None,- Author: Pirandello, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1962770346
- Language: English
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By: Levine, Sara
The Hitch
$27.00HardcoverAdd to cart“A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.”–New York Times
From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the
- Author: Levine, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0802165923
- Language: English
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartSet in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0811226646
- Language: English
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The Bovadium Fragments: Together with the Origins of Bovadium
$26.99HardcoverAdd to cartThe first-ever publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an
- Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063479087
- Language: English
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartSet in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239705
- Language: English
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By: Gill, Kanan
Acts of God
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe twenty-first-century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill’s debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence–with equal parts reverence and hilarity.
Pr
- Author: Gill, Kanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798228000667
- Language: English
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By: Vazquez, Laura
The Endless Week
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age.
Like Beckett’s nov- Author: Vazquez, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1948980274
- Language: English


















