by David Duchovny
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The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions - his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter - and questions what it all means and who he really was.
Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code…
by David Duchovny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From the New York Times–bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence—controversial, difficult, but Edenic—is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events….
by Leslie Cohen
Harper Collins
A timely and hilarious millennial women’s fiction novel about two friends who decide to give up their search for a perfect man and devote their lives to each other—but their careful plan soon begins to unravel with unexpected consequences.
Fall in love.
Get married.
Turn to your female friends to be truly understood.
Friends for over a decade, Amanda and Sophie decide it’s time to flip the script…
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by David Duchovny
Macmillan
New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City.
by Leslie Cohen
Gallery Books
“When Harry Met Sally for a new generation, with all the humor, heart, and smarts that writing neo-Ephron entails.”
—Booklist
by Harvey Araton
Cinco Puntos Press
"Fans of Harvey Araton’s lively, engaging prose will love this vivid and heartfelt exploration of what it means to be a journalist, a son, a father, and a man."
—Pamela Redmond Satran, author of Younger
by Jane Avrich
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"Exceptional...Full of telling details, wickedly so...lives up to the promise of it's elegantly odd title...Distinctive."
—NPR, Fresh Air
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
"With prose that is Kafka-esque, side-splitting, and existentially focused, this collection announces Baumbauch as a writer of the bravest, most talented philosophical fiction one can hope to find—and also the most enjoyable. Fans of Joy Williams will swoon over the unstoppable dry-rub of fatally true humor. I couldn't put it down."
—Alissa Nutting
by Lisa Glatt
Regan Arts
“Trust me: The Nakeds is a book you won’t want to put down. With humor, heart, intelligence and compassion, Lisa Glatt has written a powerfully absorbing novel about the most dark and complicated human truths. Her characters are so perceptively drawn I felt as if they were people I knew. Her portrait of southern California in the 1970s is so vivid I could practically feel that particular sun on my face. Her insights into how we love and forgive and deny and accept are so profound I felt changed by the time I read the final sentence. This is an unforgettable and spellbinding book by a writer of rare radiance.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
by Mark Swartz
Soft Skull Press
Told in a brilliantly off-kilter style that reverberates with the sublime and the paradoxical, H2O traces and retraces the overlapping family and corporate intrigues that threaten to turn a life-saving invention into an instrument of disaster.
by Beth Bosworth
Crown
Beth Bosworth juxtaposes vividly imaged fantasy and hyper-reality in this story of a world hovering between destruction and fragile salvation. Rachel Finch, a twelve-year-old booklover, joins forces with superhero S-man to save literary history. In between her travels through time and space, Rachel must cope with growing up in 1960's New Jersey, where her family and "model town" are coming apart at the seams.
by Beth Bosworth
University of Pittsburgh Press
“A dizzingly beautiful treatise on what it means to love, live, and get lost in time. . . . Bosworth possesses the ability to take the world as we may know it and show it to us through new eyes. . . . [The stories] always have one thing in common: the struggle to understand and connect with each other. This theme is illustrated in lucid and beautiful language across the collection, and by the end one is left with the certain feeling of time well spent in Bosworth’s world.”
—The Hollins Critic
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love. Reading You is an affair to relish and remember."
—Hilda Wolitzer
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
A man and woman carry out an unusual courtship through a series of letters that gradually strip away their facades. A husband and wife argue about an infidelity that may never have happened. A liaison that hinges on a lost car ends before it begins when dreams influence reality. And a man confronts the specters of his failed relationships in the mysterious Pavilion of Former Wives. In 14 thematically linked stories, Jonathan Baumbach explores the sour and bitter sweetness of relationships just beginning and already over, and the frailty that love makes of us.
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
A love story as only Baumbach can write, Dreams of Molly is filled with the longings and lingerings, the sex and deprivation, the humor and heartache, and the New York nuances that have driven Baumbach's fiction from the start.
by David Duchovny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“For one of the most engaging allegorial tales since Animal Farm, look no further than the surprising debut from Hollywood star Duchovny. His tale of Elsie, an American cow who learns the truth about her fate, is filled with humor and relevance.”
―Time Out, Critics' pick
by David Duchovny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run . . . As fast as it is entertaining . . . Duchovny has a place in the lineup, kind of like a light-hitting shortstop who shines in key moments.”
―Micah Pollack, The Washington Post
by Andrew Lewis Conn
Soft Skull Press
Rambunctious, exhilarating, surreal, funny, and moving. . . Conn has written an urbane adventure story that worldly readers will enjoy.
—The New York Times Sunday Book Review
by Rus Bradburd
Cinco Puntos Press
"Make It, Take It is blissfully light on the dramatic-finish game details that so often derail sports novels. Set against a backdrop of college basketball, it is a compelling story of people and the ways in which they can rise and sink to various levels."
— Chicago Tribune
David Evanier
Rager
"There is a bloodshot intensity..., a drive to get hold of the world before it all gets lost, the streets, the rooms, the feeling of the times—the 60s and 70s—when personal and public life felt so terribly urgent. Evanier writes a muscular, watchful prose, and again and again he pulls it off, surprising his characters in t heir existential habitat—unsettled, confused, completely caught up in the act of becoming"
—Sven Birkerts
by Lisa Glatt
Simon & Schuster
At the center of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, Lisa Glatt's heroic, hauntingly honest debut, is Rachel Sparks, a thirtysomething college professor who moves back home to sit with her mother while the older woman succumbs to terminal cancer. Glatt frames Rachel's story against a backdrop of women who range in age from 16 to 60, all of whom struggle with the conflicting sense of power versus the chilling vulnerability that seems so essential to their roles as women.
by Lisa Glatt
Simon & Schuster
"Dazzling, thrilling, and as full of shocking wonder as a snowstorm in the Sahara, Glatt's stories don't just push the literary envelope, they transform it in dangerously inventive ways....It's all here, all hauntingly real, disturbingly funny, and in a word: brilliant."
—Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble
by Amy Koppelman
Two Dollar Radio
"Koppelman explores with ruthless honesty a woman come undone."
—Bookslut
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
Babble is a humorous novel-in-stories of a baby’s life. The stories are told from the baby’s point of view, transcribed by his father, yielding at least a slightly unreliable narrator. The baby leaves home, wears disguises, and searches for those who might change his diapers. It is a unique coming-of-age story.
by Amy Koppelman
The Overlook Press
“Amy Koppelman has wrangled into the world a marvel of a book in terms of language and character and story. It should find her the audience she’s long deserved.”
—Mary Karr, the New York Times bestselling author of The Liar's Club
by Timothy L. O'Brien
Ballantine / Random House
“History as a dangerous, inventive game . . . fascinating.”
—Martin Cruz Smith
by Kit Reed
Tor Books
In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the Crossed Triceps. And through hypnotically powerful evangelical infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where you will look like a Greek god and can eat anything you want. Just sign over your life savings and come to Sylphania where the Reverend himself will personally supervise your attainment of physical perfection.
by Kit Reed
Tor Books
The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters through a biochip implant; "Escape from Shark Island," which looks at an extreme version of today's trendy "family bed;" and "Precautions," where germ-phobia reigns supreme.
by Kit Reed
Tor Books
@expectations is a fabulous work of women's fiction by a writer who has made a career of delving deep into women's hearts and finding the truth of their feelings and their lives. Reed's fiction has always examined the female and familial conditions with a sharp eye, a truthful insight, and a unique style that leaves her readers breathless and wanting more.
by Fiona Rosenbloom
Hyperion
Stacy Friedman is getting ready for one of the biggest events of her young life--her bat mitzvah! All she wants is the perfect BCBG dress to wear, her friends by her side, and her biggest crush ever, Andy Goldfarb, to dance with her (and maybe give Stacy her first French kiss …). But of course, things never work out quite the way you'd like them to….
by Fiona Rosenbloom
Hyperion
Stacy Friedman has just had the most awesome summer of her life. At camp, she and her best friend, Lydia, met a girl who trained them in all things cool, like how many black plastic jelly bracelets to wear and which teeth-whitening strips work the best. Equipped with this new knowledge, they’re set to make an unforgettable back-to-school debut.
by Steven Shainberg and Erin Cressida Wilson
Soft Skull Press
"Shainberg and Wilson have greatly enlarged Gaitskill's story... They know the kinks, the poses and the funny accouterments are finally beside the point. After all, it isn't how you find each other—it's that you do."
—Los Angeles Times
by Amanda Stern
Dzanc Press
Reading Stern is like watching polaroids materialize, the horror creeping up on you. Picture perfect writing; a compelling story....
—UNCUT Magazine
by Erin Cressida Wilson and Lillian Ann Slugocki
Cleis Press
This is hot reading by any standard, a revelation of the unwieldy and unrelenting desires of straight women and an assertion that "it is revolutionary for women to take charge of and own their sexuality." The Erotica Project began as a program for WBAI Radio New York and moved to the stage in 1998, where performances sold out night after night and were critically lauded.
by Amram Ducovny
The Overlook Press
Coney Island, 1939. On the eve of World War II, fifteen-year-old Harry Catzker spends his after-school hours on his bike, picking up betting slips from Coney Island carnival freaks for the local bookie and racing his imaginary sworn enemy, German Captain Ziegenbaum, whose ship menaces the coastline. As the lights of the Cyclone and Luna Park glow in the Coney Island night, Harry finds a surrogate family in the freaks and low-lifes.
by David Evanier
“David Evanier, with The One-Star Jew, commands skills considerable enough to merit our attention and wonder.”
- George Plimpton
“Evanier moved through jigsawed, painful levels of mistake, embarrassment and failure: the horrify one minute and astonish the next; they seem truly unbearable yet also, at the same time, exaltedly poetic… [Read More].”
- Kirkus Reviews
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by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
The novel that takes his initial offers 14 ways of looking at Baumbach's poet-protagonist, an intellectual's Bukowski, 14 narrative variations on the distorting mirror, calling into question the validity, even the importance, of truth in memory.
"Jonathan Baumbach has been a hero of mine since I started writing. I was then, and remain today, avid for novelists who push the limits of the novel's form without sacrificing its traditional human juices. Baumbach is just such a writer, and B is just such a novel-smart, edgy, full of feeling, not quite like anything else I've ever read."
Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short stories.
“The fact is, major fiction would be of lesser rank without him.” —Robert Coover
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
An honest and elegant (if not slightly disturbing) imagining of the way truth becomes elusive in long-term relationships. Separate Hours is a love story about the betrayal of love.
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
Baumbach describes our grip on both the present and the future with What Comes Next. He brings alive the public and private faces of hostility and anxiety through Chris Steiner, a university student on the verge of losing everything, starting with his mind.
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
My Father More or Less, which deals with the confrontation between an aggrieved eighteen-year-old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father, is a continuing exploration of the fiction making capacities of the imagination.
by Jonathan Baumbach
Dzanc Books
Jonathan Baumbach's debut—a comic novel with tragic concerns. Peter Becker finds himself coming back after fourteen years to try to pick up his life where he had left it.