The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is well known to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection — the first to be translated into English — introduces a distinct and dynamic voice to the...
One week ago I thought I knew exactly how I was going to spend the rest of my life: looking at the gray walls of a prison cell. Figuring out how to survive the apocalypse wasn’t something I’d planned for.
Yet here I was, getting a...
In Her Absence - "[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class….slyly witty and luminous."
— Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful...
One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At...
A NOVEL OF ALIENATION FOR THE DOOMER GENERATION
The story of a young man at the end of his rope—his girlfriend has left him, he hates his job, he has no friends, no beliefs, no hope, no future.
During the course of a week he will plunge...
In You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale’s collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters’ lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In “Animals,”...
"The thought of calling off work is like the thought of suicide, just nice to think about."
In The No Hellos Diet, Sam Pink brings you straight into a world you've never been to before — your own life. Find yourself working at a department...