"A revised and expanded version of Megan Milks's out-of-print cult classic KILL MARGUERITE AND OTHER STORIES, SLUG AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of fifteen stories that experiment in genre and explore the visceral, absurd, and queer qualities of gender, physiology, species, and identity: a woman metamorphoses into a slug; another eats her heart out; hair sprouts from the walls; and more"--

"[This volume] is written for this era of global struggle. It finds its ferment at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. Its feminist and celebratory energy is fueled by street protests and their shattered windows. Amid oil spills and austerity measures and shore birds and a child holding its mother's hand and hissing teargas canisters, it reminds us exactly what we must fight to defend with a wild ferocity, and what were up against"--Amazon.com....

"A scabrous, Southern send-up of WAITING FOR GODOT by the novelist Sam Lipsyte hails as "one of the few truly important American writers of our time.""--

"Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide: 1968, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an eight-story building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends hours painting tiny vignettes on chewing gum stuck to the pavement. In Miami, Harold spends his days devouring every box of corn flakes that has his ex-wife's birthday as its sell-by date. Meanwhile, in Corcubión, Spain, Antón is working on an...

"A wildly inventive, impressionistic novel of family, sickness, and the birth-wrench of art, from a deeply promising young author"--

"In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an Argentine builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges. On the run from authorities, a man takes up permanent residence in the legal non-place of Singapore International Airport"--Page 4 of cover.

The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...

Jean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He pretends to fly to Rio to make another film, but instead returns to his own Parisian suburb to spend his solitary days recounting or...

"The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature. Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and controversial artists of her era. The author of visionary, transgressive novels...