The Fall of Heartless Horse

The Fall of Heartless Horse PDF Author: Martha Kinney
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781888451733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history. Martha Kinney has won the following literary awards: Menn Prize for Fiction, Olin Poetry Award, Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and Pazo Mayberry Poetry Award. She has had poetry published in Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, Pearl, Luna, The Bitter Oleander, Five AM and has poetry forthcoming in the anthology Airfare (Sarabande Books).

The Fall of Heartless Horse

The Fall of Heartless Horse PDF Author: Martha Kinney
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781888451733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history. Martha Kinney has won the following literary awards: Menn Prize for Fiction, Olin Poetry Award, Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and Pazo Mayberry Poetry Award. She has had poetry published in Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, Pearl, Luna, The Bitter Oleander, Five AM and has poetry forthcoming in the anthology Airfare (Sarabande Books).

Userlands

Userlands PDF Author: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354151
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet's labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still searching for their identities. Written by Dennis Cooper

Heartless

Heartless PDF Author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 0764207806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Book Description
A princess's heart is the prize in this Tolkein-esque world of dragons and knights; a blend of fantasy with a love for the ages.

The Show That Smells

The Show That Smells PDF Author: Derek McCormack
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Book Description
Derek McCormack's most compelling work yet is his second selection in Dennis Cooper's groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery fiction series.

With or Without You

With or Without You PDF Author: Lauren Sanders
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781888451696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
Summer 1987. Lillian Ginger Speck, high-school graduate, sits in her jail cell contemplating the steps and missteps that led her to murder soap opera star Brooke Harrison. Her story is part apologia, part love note and suicide pact. Meanwhile, Brooke Harrison's mother has a tale of her own to tell. In this edgy and compelling 'whydunit', the accounts of predator and victim intertwine.

Artificial Light

Artificial Light PDF Author: James Greer
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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“Artificial Light beats the bejeezus out of the last dozen Thomas Pynchons, the last nineteen Don DeLillos, and the last forty-three Kurt Vonneguts.”—Richard Meltzer “In his ambitious and intriguing debut novel, indie rock expert Greer, author of Guided by Voices, employs one of literature's oldest gambits, the book-within-a-book structure, three times over. A young librarian calling herself Fiat Lux fills a set of notebooks with her passion for books and an enigmatic account of her interlude with Kurt C, a famous indie rock star who appears unheralded in Dayton, Ohio, and buys the long-abandoned Orville Wright mansion. A member of the rock group Whiskey Ships is trying to write about his musical odyssey but longs to return to his book about Orville Wright, whose long-lost diaries also feed the narrative stream. Greer picks the lock on the Kurt Cobain mythos and the rapid commercialization of indie rock…Strong writing and shrewd perceptions prevail, backed by wry humor, compelling stumblebum characters, a true-blue louche atmosphere, and arresting insights into the dream of art, be it literature or rock and roll.”—Booklist

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis PDF Author: Mark Gluth
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354941
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Book Description
Composed in brief paragraphs and structured as a series of vignettes, pieces of fiction and autobiography, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis creates a world in which a woman's life is refracted through dreamlike logic. Margaret Kroftis is a writer, living alone. As she experiences a personal tragedy, the narrative moves forward in an emotionally coherent manner that exists separately from linear time. A groundbreaking debut from a truly talented new writer.

The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse

The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse PDF Author: Lonely Christopher
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1936070804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Book Description
Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps out of a moving car on his birthday and runs for the last street lamp in the universe. The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love.

Headless

Headless PDF Author: Benjamin Weissman
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1888451491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Book Description
The author of the acclaimed transgressive cult classic Dear Dead Person returns with this long-awaited second collection of brilliantly written, outrageously imaginative and comedic short stories. In Headless, Weissman turns his daredevil wit and fearless storytelling gifts on subjects ranging from Hitler's secret life as a skier to the philosophical musings of identical twin porn stars to the travails of the world's most sitcom defying family.

Wide Eyed

Wide Eyed PDF Author: Trinie Dalton
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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“A wonderfully eccentric and vibrant collection . . . Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, always riveting” (Jill McCorkle, New York Times–bestselling author of Life After Life). In “Hummingbird Moonshine,” a frustrated hunt for authentic religion in botanicas and science books culminates in a spiritual connection made with a hummingbird. In “Oceanic,” the narrator resolves to marry a manatee after a drunken pre-party for her best friend’s wedding. In “Tiles,” four vignettes about bloody accidents in tiled bathrooms intermingle with scenes from the author’s favorite scary movies. In Trinie Dalton’s tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate this book: beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black widows, owls, llamas, bats, and many more are characters who befriend the narrator. This collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions with native Californian animals, glam rock icons, and horror movies, among other things. With a setting rooted in urban Los Angeles but colored by mythic tales of beauty borrowed from medieval times, Shakespeare, and Grimm’s fairy tales, Wide Eyed makes the difficulties of surviving in a contemporary American city more palatable by showing the reader that magic and escape is always possible. “A delightfully weird and disarming read.” —Publishers Weekly “Trinie Dalton’s voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by, so it takes a little time to realize how deftly she is talking about death and sex and fear and love and fur and slumber parties, how lightly she touches upon heaviness, making an imprint so gentle you don’t know it’s there until later, when the story floats back up in your memory.” —Aimee Bender “These charming stories vibrate with innocence and awe. Trinie Dalton is an effortless purveyor of wonder, strangeness, and love. She is a writer of high spirits and unguarded vision, and this debut collection is an absolute pleasure to read.” —Ben Marcus