"And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction too, stupid." -John Waters
On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. Learn More
From the best-selling author of The Dress Lodger, comes a brilliant new novel about the secrets, lies, and fears that haunt several generations of one Appalachian family. Learn More
No Wave founder Lydia Lunchís first book, Paradoxia (Akashic Books, 2007), proved that her talent is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection.
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Prue McKeel’s life is ordinary. At least until her brother is abducted by a murder of crows and taken to the Impassable Wilderness, a dense, tangled forest on the edge of Portland. No one’s ever gone in – or at least returned to tell of it. Learn More
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels ñ expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow ñ Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. Learn More
A futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Learn More