Us
10 best books like Us (Michael Kimball): Zazen, The Alligators of Abraham, Fram, The Last Warner Woman, Undone, Stories V!, The Avian Gospels, Book I, Damascus, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, The Great Pretender
| Author | Vanessa Veselka |
| ISBN | 1935869051 |
Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.
Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own...
The Alligators of Abraham
| Author | Robert Kloss |
| ISBN | 0983026394 |
Robert Kloss's The Alligators of Abraham is a fever dream built from the fly strewn corpses of armies, the megalomania of generals, the madness of widows, the fires of mourning, the fury of the poor, the indifference of the wealthy, and the ravenous hissing of those alligators who have ever plagued the...
| Author | Steve Himmer |
| ISBN | 1935439987 |
Fram is the story of Oscar, a minor bureaucrat in the US government's Bureau of Ice Prognostication, an agency created to compete with the Soviets during the heyday of the Cold War and still operating in the present without the public's knowledge. Oscar and his partner Alexi are tasked with inventing...
| Author | Kei Miller |
| ISBN | 0297860771 |
Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of "warning": the power to protect, inspire, and terrify. But when she is sent to live in England, her prophecies of impending disaster are met with a different kind of fear—people...
| Author | Michael Kimball |
| ISBN | 0380786702 |
Late one night, Sal Erickson's best friend calls him outside for a walk by the river. "Who do you trust?" he asks Sal. "Who would you trust with your life?"It is this fateful question that will send Sal's precariously balanced life spinning out of control--propelling him into a strangely irresistible...
| Author | Scott McClanahan |
| ISBN | 0983258961 |
Don't read this book. Scott rips through each page and pokes you in the chest with bully fingers while you read it. He also yells at you. WHILE YOU ARE READING IT. He challenges you in a not nice way. If you like Scott on a personal level, you might be okay with all of his shenanigans. Maybe you are used to them....
The Avian Gospels, Book I
| Author | Adam Novy |
| ISBN | 0982530129 |
to be fair, i still have 100 pages left in this book. but i'm so insanely crazy about it that i'm going to do the stupid thing and post about how much i love it.
the design of the book itself is so beautiful that it makes me want to smash all ebooks with a hammer. gold-trimmed pages, a red cover that my...
| Author | Joshua Mohr |
| ISBN | 0982684894 |
"Damascus succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision." —The Wall Street Journal
"At once gripping, lucid and fierce, Damascus is the mature effort of an artist devoted to personal growth and as such contains the glints of real gold." -San Francisco Chronicle
It's...
Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0393079635 |
No one explores the borderlands of belief and skepticism quite like Jeff Sharlet. He is ingenious, farsighted, and able to excavate the worlds of others, even the flakiest and most fanatical, with uncanny sympathy. Here, he reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain...
#1 Bestselling Family Drama You Simply Can't Put Down!
ONE MAN…TWO LIVES…
For over six years, Reginald Brooks pulled it off - having two families, leading two lives.
Now the pretending must stop. But how?
THE GREAT PRETENDER…an electrifying tale of how one...
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally...
| Author | Frederick Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0385527292 |
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, mostly retired architect Vaughn Williams, who is beset by the routine but no less troubling difficulties of late midlife, is doing what he can to remain, as he says, “viable.” He scans the channels, reads newspapers and blogs online,...
| Author | Blake Butler |
| ISBN | 0061997382 |
“If there’s a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn’t.” —Dennis Cooper
From Blake Butler, one of the most challenging young writers of our time and the acclaimed author of the novel There Is No Year, comes a thrillingly wide-ranging...
The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas
| Author | Sam Pink |
| ISBN | 1593766815 |
The basement was filthy. There was garbage all over. Any job I'd ever had involved garbage. I had been, and always would be, a garbageman. And yes, I took great pride in my garbage pedigree. It was my calling. My very meaning. Something dripped on my head. I touched my head. Thick, dark-green gel on my hand--like...
| Author | Kelle Groom |
| ISBN | 1451616686 |
At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people and explore intimacy in ways she’d never been able to experience before. She began drinking before class, often blacked out at bars, and fell into destructive relationships. At nineteen, already an out-of-control...
| Author | Zachary Schomburg |
| ISBN | 0984475257 |
Poetry. As one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry, Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people clothes, jaguars, plagues of hummingbirds, and even Abraham Lincoln. His poems have inspired art installations,...
| Author | Christine Schutt |
| ISBN | 0156030667 |
With prose that is at once sensual and spare, dreamlike and deliberate, Christine Schutt gives voice in this collection to what most keep hidden. Many of the stories take place in the home, where what is behind the thin domestic barriers of doors tends toward violence, unseemly sexual encounters, and...
| Author | Molly Gaudry |
| ISBN | 0983026327 |
Shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
2nd finalist: 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry
Taught at:
Wesleyan University
Brown University
Cornell College
Queens College, CUNY
New Mexico State University
Mount Mary College
“There...
| Author | Daphne Carr |
| ISBN | 0826427898 |
Tracing NIN's career arc is like trying to map the trajectory of an angry star that burns and burns until finally transforming itself into a nightlight.
It's kind of a sad story and one that comments on the trajectory of this country, maybe. At least some aspects of the story goes like this:
You...
Caketrain is quickly becoming one of my favorite independent publishers. In 2011 they released this wonderful collection of ten short works of fiction by author Sara Levine - stories with emotional depth and dark comedic moments. I especially appreciated Levine's deft hand in writing dialogue...
| Author | Robert James Russell |
1863, New Mexico Territory. Shot full of holes and on the run from the relentless pursuit of his one-time friend now intent on retribution, Confederate deserter Everett Root finds himself navigating the brutal desert headed to the town of Mesilla, where he believes salvation lies. But when Everett...
We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough
| Author | Mike Young |
| ISBN | 0982081375 |
What if our feelings were just holograms in expensive greeting cards? Is there anything wrong with being quietly astonished, or are you obliged to turn and tell somebody? If you tell them, will they know? We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough treats language to breakfast, fiddles over language's doomed...
| Author | Duke Haney |
| ISBN | 1427624992 |
For almost two decades, rumors have swirled around Jim Cassady, a quasi-legendary musician who disappeared without a trace after his girlfriend’s apparent suicide. Though largely written off as dead, some claim to have had brushes with Cassady, now said to be homeless and bumming change on the...
| Author | Scott Dominic Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0988201305 |
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"Engaging...charmingly nostalgic." -Publishers Weekly
A man puts his beloved pets to the knife; a family prepares for the Rapture; a woman in a department store slips a necklace into her purse. Whatever the situation, the characters in This...
