A Postmodern Belch
10 best books like A Postmodern Belch (M.J. Nicholls): The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, The Egg Said Nothing, Darconville’s Cat, Textermination: A Novel, Island People, Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions, The New Adventures of Socrates: An Extravagance, Findesferas, Great White House, The Fountains of Neptune
| Author | Alice W. Flaherty |
| ISBN | 0618485414 |
Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write,...
| Author | Caris O'Malley |
| ISBN | 1936383268 |
Meet Manny. He's your average shut-in with a penchant for late night television and looting local fountains for coins. With eight locks on his door and newspapers covering his windows, he's more than a bit paranoid too.
His wasn't a great life, but it was comfortable-at least it was until the...
| Author | Alexander Theroux |
| ISBN | 0805043659 |
The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel.
The style relies on complex syntax and unusual words. The satire is broad, and uses southern culture cliches but is often very funny. Some of the names...
| Author | Christine Brooke-Rose |
| ISBN | 0811212165 |
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
| Author | Coleman Dowell |
| ISBN | 1564780937 |
In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations...
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0393356647 |
Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his...
Plato's dialogues, updated for the age of social media and short attention spans. Socrates hangs out with his old gang - Plato, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and the rest - but also meets new characters including Madonna, George W. Bush, Richard Dawkins, Hamlet and an extremely well-meaning robot.
Don't...
| Author | Leo X. Robertson |
| ISBN | 1291754008 |
During an oil crisis-induced war in South America, Findesferas tells the story of Juan and his twin brother Matias as they fight to stay alive in the hopes of returning to their home, and normality. Juan is a poet, but since the death of his wife, he can’t seem to recapture the same creativity he used to...
| Author | Christoph Paul |
| ISBN | 1944866027 |
Great White House returns in this expanded and revised edition! America is behind on its loans and President Jinping wants his money. Will our nation's leaders escape the wrath of China's great white killers, or will Obama be forced to cut Medicare, Social Security, and the rest of the federal government?...
| Author | Rikki Ducornet |
| ISBN | 1564781550 |
"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind."
Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas...
| Author | Jane Alison |
| ISBN | 0312420064 |
Why was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has created a haunting drama of
psychological...
| Author | Jaimie Admans |
| ISBN | 1493510703 |
Strange things are occurring in the neighbourhood. A mysterious snowfall, one Santa too many, and eyes of coal that watch you wherever you go.
Ten-year-old Kaity is busy trying to get rid of her mum's creepy new boyfriend and reunite her divorced parents, but her curiosity gets the better of...
| Author | David Wallace Fleming |
Librarian note: alternate cover edition for ASIN - B0052FR1CI
Internet lawlessness, smartphone love triangles, zombie video gamers, gender role ambivalence and the demise of television—these changes infuse our existence. Borrowing from science fiction, fantasy and magic realism,...
Fistful of Reefer delivers a surge equivalent to a cocktail of 1 part serotonin, 2 parts adrenaline, with a dash of grenadine served over ice. This double-fisted, dieselpunk weird-Western resides between No Country for Old Men and The Three Amigos.
In 1918, when Chancho Villarreal and...
| Author | Kyle Muntz |
| ISBN | 1621052060 |
Everyone is disappearing,
I thought.
Everyone is turning into a scary person.
Scary people.
Just who are these scary people, anyway? What is it about them that makes them so? If it is the unknown that we fear the most, then perhaps it's the strangeness of these people that scares...
Voltaire's Excellent Adventure: The Broken Boarder
| Author | Martin D. Gibbs |
| ISBN | 1495430952 |
When an oversexed and over-caffeinated philosopher crashes a Gatsby party, even the wood-chips on the wall are going to get aroused!
François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, is back and ready for action! Armed with only his wits, his wig, and his mighty cleaver (which he...
| Author | Fernando del Paso |
| ISBN | 8420421081 |
Todos los excesos caben en Palinuro de México. Maravilla del arte verbal, de las posibilidades actuales de la lengua literaria y de la enorme apertura narrativa rotulada por el boom latinoamericano, esta novela es, definitivamente, un caudal de vida y júbilo que se celebran a sí mismos. Los excesos...
Rising of a Dead Moon is all about a seventeen year old Indian girl whose life has been oscillating between being Usha-Nakti and Usha again. The book set in the British colonial time, focuses on the plight of a young widow who is blamed for being inauspicious when her husband, three times her age passes...
Deadman's Tome: Monsters Exist
| Author | Theresa Braun |
| ISBN | 9781521468 |
From the time we are young, we fear the monster under the bed or in the closet, making it impossible to sleep without a nightlight. Then, we hear stories of Bigfoot, and maybe even the Mothman around campfires. When we are adults, we wonder if there might actually be supernatural creatures lurking in the...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0571225551 |
Rich in invention, psychological truth and sheer entertainment, the five short novels that comprise The Avignon Quintet form one of the key works of an undisputed modern master.
'Another constellation of Mediterranean mysteries and memories. This time it is not Alexandria, but Avignon:...
| Author | Anna Kavan |
| ISBN | 0720611504 |
Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed marriage spent in a remote, tropical hell. She—described only as "the girl"—is young, sophisticated and sensitive. He, "Mr. Dog-Head," is an unreconstructed thug and heavy drinker who rapes his...
| Author | Kevin Ansbro |
| ISBN | 1910077542 |
"Sawat, I want to go into the water…”
Phuket, Thailand, seemed to be the perfect getaway choice for twenty-two-year-old Calum Armstrong: What he saw, and did on that holiday proves to have far- reaching consequences; not only for himself, but also for those closest to him.
In...
