Absurdist
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Sewer, Gas & Electric
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovecraft Country, now an HBO series.
High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant,… [more below]
- Series: Public Works Trilogy (Grove Press)
- Author: Ruff, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: September 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141552
- Language: English
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Their Four Hearts
$17.95 Add to cartThe novel that reportedly caused a walkout upon publication, this grotesque, absurdist work by Russia’s de Sade follows four individuals set upon a common goal of destruction and violence.
- Series: Russian Literature
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 162897396X
- Language: English
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The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories
$29.99 Add to cartA daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).
Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny wo
- Author: Gelman, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0063315971
- Language: English
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Plastic Space House
$17.95 Add to cart“Welcome to Taff’s nightmare. An entire novel seemingly set at that outer rim Lovecraft so deeply feared. Here plot makes room for philosophy without losing the beat, and the imagination does its work
- Author: Taff, John F. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1685100961
- Language: English
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The Nihilist’s Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society
$14.98 Add to cartThe perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst!
Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as,
- Author: Cheque, Tungyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Palimpsest
$19.00 Add to cartIn the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where
- Author: Valente, Catherynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24, 2009
- ISBN10: 0553385763
- Language: English
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Man or Mango?: A Lament
$16.95 Read moreBy the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Reclusive Elo?e lives with her cats and her cel
- Author: Ellmann, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964952
- Language: English
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Event Factory
$16.95 Read more“More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” –Jeff VanderMeer
A “linguist-traveler- Author: Gladman, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0984469303
- Language: English
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The Beginners
$16.95 Add to cartAnna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarr… [more below]
- Author: Serre, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230317
- Language: English
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Search History
$16.95 Add to cartSearch History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire.
Frank Exit is
- Author: Lim, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896177
- Language: English
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That Time of Year
$14.95 Add to cartTourist season is over, and the rain won’t stop falling. It’s time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways in the countryside and return to norma… [more below]
- Author: Ndiaye, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 194964149X
- Language: English
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Universal Love
$16.00 Add to cartA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World.
Universal Love- Author: Weinstein, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1250144361
- Language: English
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My Manservant and Me
$15.95 Add to cartA madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written f… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621521
- Language: English
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Homo Zapiens
$22.00 Add to cartThe collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job… [more below]
- Author: Pelevin, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001813
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Read moreThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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The Penny Mansions
$19.95 Read moreWith the Spanish flu pandemic on the rise, a former gold rush town– once the largest city in the Pacific Northwest– is threatened with extinction via eminent domain should their population fall belo… [more below]
- Author: Mayfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646034007
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat
$20.99 Add to cartThe classic and timeless humorous story, Three Men in a Boat, begins with the eponymous three men sitting around discussing the different needs in their lives. Our heroes come to the conclusion that
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9354407021
- Language: English
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The Threat
$17.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429706
- Language: English
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Will and Testament
$19.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award
Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret–the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 178873310X
- Language: English
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In Case of Emergency
$16.95 Add to cartIn this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.
What do you do when the world is falling apart and you’re in with
- Author: Mohebali, Mahsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1952177863
- Language: English
