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Being queer in a small town? Bad. Your employer believing you stole ten thousand dollars? Worse.Abboton, IN has kept hard-partying Victor Adewale in the closet for his entire life. So he makes a deal with his stern Nigerian father: Clean up his act, hold down a job, and the dad will pay for him to attend grad school in New York. Easy enough, until $10,000 goes missing from VictorâEUR(TM)s Hot Topic-esque mall store under his watch, leaving him the prime suspect. Meanwhile, VictorâEUR(TM)s secret ex-boyfriend Kyle sets him up with fellow mallrat Amory. A bisexual love triangle forms when it becomes clear Victor and Kyle arenâEUR(TM)t over each other. But as Victor grows increasingly certain that Kyle is responsible for the theft, their relationship gets way more complicated. Desperate, Victor turns to his dangerous friend Henshaw, who offers shady alternative methods of getting the money he needs. But HenshawâEUR(TM)s got secrets of his own that might destroy them all.

The famous bi-sexual libertine who would be more at home on Tinder than at a Roman Cathedral, gallivants through the streets like brush strokes to become a Baroque 16th century icon.The year is 1604 and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is a superstar, his blockbuster paintings packing the pews of Rome. Caravaggio should be reveling in prosperity, but the artistic trailblazer and nefarious street-brawler is his own worst enemy. While the genius paints masterpieces, the ruffian in him can't stay out of jail. Caravaggio is a man at existential odds with himself until falling in love with Lena Antognetti, the prostitute modeling his newest Virgin pictures. Caravaggio paints Lena into a life of wealth and celebrity, but the power couple's provocative fame earns them a horde of resentful and jealous enemies. I, Caravaggio dramatizes the superstar's psychological unraveling under the sexual and political pressures of the Catholic Reformation.

 The era of ska shame is officially over, and ska fans no longer need to hide in the basement, skanking alone.  The creator of the popular podcast In Defense of Ska has doubled down on defending the checkered flag genre with his new edition of In Defense of Ska: Ska Now More Than Ever. The original version was chosen by Pitchfork as one of the best music books of 2021, and was an official recommended read in Rolling Stone‿s June 2021 issue. In this expanded version, author Aaron Carnes weaves in tons of new interviews and stories, continuing his crusade to rebuff pop culture‿s dismissal of American ska as nothing more than porkpie hats and silly lyrics.  Updated journalistic essays, personal stories, historical investigations, and a brand-new epilogue exploring ska‿s “lost yearsâ€? serve as a much-needed crash course on the hundreds of bands, big or small, that formed the passionate community that continues to love and evolve America‿s much-maligned and infamously underrated ska scene.  Join the movement today and discover why ska is a cultural force that can‿t be ignored!

A pioneer of artificial intelligence rebuilds the love of her life, but when she discovers he‿s been feeding incriminating civilian information to the Chinese government, she‿ll have to decide whether to keep or kill him. When approached by a Chinese tech company, Virginia Samson is moved to give them her beloved‿s algorithm so they can create an AI companion for the aging population. Soon her digital lost love starts spying on Chinese citizens, funneling the information to the Chinese government. When Virginia frantically tries to rebuild him, she uncovers his terrible secret, forcing her to relive their beautiful and tragic love affair. Afterword explores what it means to be human and is a moving testament to the deeply human desire for belonging, companionship, and love.Â

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless millennial walk into a bar. A Biblical plague rains down head lice, aerial drone strikes, gender non-conforming frogs. An app throws a slumber party for a friendless office worker. Texans in the winter, the Taliban in Springtime, Teslas with ℮☥ bumper stickers, Frozen 5 in Arabic, architectural consistency laws in Laurel Canyon, the longest recorded nosebleed in history.An unhinged jet stream that is ultramodern and poignantly timeless, capturing the angst of the post-millennial generation.

A surreal Blacksploitation joint for the 21st Century.An Occult, Erotic Mystery bout Reverend Daddy Hoodoo helping his Wommin find their Lost-R-Missing Pussies with the help of the extraordinary Madam X. Featuring heartless gangsters, Vodoo sex Magick, and a young Wommin in distress by the name of Abysinnia who is in desperate need of the services of Daddy Hoodoo. This tale leads from Between the Sheets to the Streets to the Boardroom Suites- and Beyond.

The debut short story collection from Joshua Chaplinsky, author of Kanye West-Reanimator. Thirteen weird pieces of literary genre fiction. Singularities, ciphers, and reappearing limbs. Alien messiahs and murderous medieval hydrocephalics. A dark collection that twists dreams into nightmares in an attempt to find a whisper of truth."This is dark stuff, but fun, without any hipster wink of irony or cynicism. Writing stories that are simultaneously grim and good-hearted is a fucking tough line to straddle, and writing them well... let's just say I don't see that often. Chaplinsky walks a barbed-wire tightrope here. In short, good shit."Craig Clevenger, Author of The Contortionist's Handbook"If you're sick of tepid short stories that taste like watered-down milk, "Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape," is the collection of multi-colored, bite-sized brain pan bullets that might just be the cure. Joshua Chaplinsky has an imagination both of depth and breadth, and no two stories are alike. You can practically hear the lively, fascinating, hallucinatory click of his brain throughout the book. An enjoyable read for all of us dreaming apes."Autumn Christian, Author of Girl Like a Bomb

After his viral non distributed breakout hit Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, which sold over 30,000 paperbacks, Eric LaRocca became an overnight premier name in horror fiction. As a proud member the LGBTQ community, LaRocca resonates with horror fans like a millennial Clive Barker. With Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke being republished with Random House/TitanThose fans are anticipating his novel, Everything the Darkness EatsFor fans of Clive Barker and Paul Tremblay

We love to eat and we love our pets. Lisa Goddard has found a way to share our love of food with our best friends. A cookbook that also makes a great gift book, Goddard has created delicious recipes that doting gourmet dog owners can make for themselves and their dogs, killing two birds with one stone. Delicious Dishes for You & Your Dog is a cookbook that will satisfy dog owners and foodies alike. Every recipe has been carefully crafted to omit dog-toxic ingredients while maximizing flavor to satisfy human taste buds, with tons of options that are vegetarian, gluten-free, or free of added sugar or salt.Food as a hobby and interest has intensified, while dogs have never been more highly valued by their human parents. This cookbook lays out over 40 recipes that any home cook can make for their entire family - including the dog - to enjoy, fulfilling a striking void in the marketplace. This book will be irresistible and is a no-brainer gift to get for all dog lovers.

Cops on bikes, undercover security in the supermarket, TSA agents wondering why there appears to be a gun in his bag, Keith Lowell Jensen has a lot of run-ins with all manner of cops. Sometimes they arrest him. Sometimes they beat him up and arrest him. And sometimes he gets away scot free.In his second memoir collection Jensen tells the hilarious tales of his various arrests and other run-ins with the law. Getting his charges dropped after making the public defender and the judge laugh, performing an hour of jokes for his cell mates in the drunk tank, the comedian has used his sense of humor to get in and out of trouble, and that same sense of humor makes this a fun and engaging read.Storytelling comedian Keith Lowell Jensen has performed all over the world, including headlining the First International China Comedy Festival in Shanghai. He has recorded 8 comedy specials, including his latest Not For Rehire. This is his second memoir collection following 2018¿s Punching Nazis And Other Good Ideas.

Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture and humiliation into works of art. It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set of charcoals still imbued with his spirit. When Shannon Hernandez, a traumatized and repressed art student, is tasked to draw with them by her lecherous professor, she feels a change in herself and something menacing calling out to her. She is offered a chance to create work that breaks boundaries and hearts alike but comes bound with a connection to a legacy of immortal terrors.

Stories of women and monstrousness abound in Dalpe's debut short story collection. Visual, lush, and often haunting, Dalpe's work has a way of getting under your skin. Lovers of slow burns and new weird, Lovecraftian strangeness, gothic sensuality, and dark humor will all find something to connect with in Les Femmes Grotesques. Dalpe's prose seamlessly blends the ordinary with the strange, the gory with the gorgeous. Each story has an emotional core that will appeal to readers of all taste levels; Dalpe writes genre fiction that reaches readers who don't consider themselves "horror people." Lovers of urban fantasy, of literary short works, of contemporary women's fiction, and of classic Victorian gothic will all find something to enjoy in the works on show here. The collection provides a reader depths to explore as Dalpe deftly mines genres and styles for new and interesting narrative possibilities all while maintaining a strong thematic through-line.

There are epic novels and then there is The Logos. Mark de Silva returns to fiction writing, following his debut, Square Wave (Two Dollar Radio), with a novel so full of ambition, lyricism and philosophical underpinnings that it is Proustian in its ambition and scope, exploring what it means to be a working artist in the 21st century with clever poignancy. With a career in academia and writing for the Opinionator (NyTimes), de Silva shows his intellectual scope is boundless. He¿s woven a thought provoking exploration of the role of the modern artist in a Capitalist driven market, set in the New York City art scene that brings to mind recent titles such as, The Five Books of Robert Moses and City on Fire. A must buy for literature and art lovers looking for an operatic literary gem.

With an original voice representing an Asian and LGBTQ millenial perspective, Michael Chang shows in their first full collection, they have a talent for connecting and entertaining readers. With a sardonic and artful style, that¿s part academia and part Grindr, whimsy and darkness meet in arresting contrast, creating a poetic innovation that will excite readers and critics alike.

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction. Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations, vacations, doomed relationships, or businessmen chasing the ephemeral, Hefner shows we are lovable and acceptable despite the shame we accumulate through the years. Sometimes it's only through stories that we can make sense of who we are and where we are going.

A cult icon of weird-fiction and horror since the beginning of this century, Michael Cisco is a true original voice who is respected by his peers like Thomas Ligotti, China Mieville, Jeff VanderMeer and Paul Tremblay. Ciscös return to a full length novel is one of his most inventive and entertaining of his illustrious career. The majority of the novel is told from the pov of existential Yak who remembers his life of once being a human man. The novel presents the bizarre events that lead up to an accident, and the new, parallel life for Chalo as a wild yak living in the Himalayas. Cisco blazes bright, inspiring die hard readers with his own unique brand of weird, unsettling yet whimsical world of fiction.

This personal essay collection by Sam Heaps is a literary mediation on sex and intimacy. Heaps¿ voice comes through as a millennial Anais Nin, sharing intimate encounters in an vulnerable and artful way. Each partner plays a role in the self-discovery of the narrator, creating a song of desire and regret, a pop melody with blues undertones. Heaps lets readers become the ultimate voyeurs, displaying nakedly what we secretly feel in our most intimate moments but might be scared or unable to vocalize. Proximity brings the reader skin to skin with their own unspoken desires in fresh exciting, arresting ways.

SAD SEXY CATHOLIC follows the journey of a young twenty-something as she navigates trauma, body dysmorphia, a personality disorder, and leftover guilt from a religious upbringing. Lauren Milici strives to find softness, even in the darkest of moments. This collection will connect with the millennial existential journey, navigating the brambles of love and trauma in the journey of finding the self as it is truly, laid bare.

A complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/animal separation. Weaving wisdom from her shamanic practice and the interstices of language, and in the difficult moments anticipating the deaths of her beloved dog companions, Separation Anxiety marks the first collection of poetry from acclaimed prose writer Janice Lee, and is a meditation on inhabitation and existence beyond the human.

In 2014, after the release of his debut novel, celebrated writer and visionary publisher Kevin Sampsell switched gears and turned to a new creative obsession: making collage art. Initially influenced by the wild cutup language of William S. Burroughs, Sampsell soon discovered countless modern collagists that inspired him to take his art further and further from where it started. Years later, he finds himself at the center of a growing movement of 21st Century cut and paste.I Made an Accident showcases over 200 of Sampsell's collages, exploring a range of styles: hilarious sight gags, subtle cultural jabs, elegant mysteries, colorful surprises, fragmented hauntings, and gloriously strange accidents. Combined with Sampsell's sharp and lively poems, this book is a feast for the eyes and brain and a nonstop entertainment.

56k dial-up. Ouija boards. Crushes.Internet Girlfriend explores the intersection of the internet, the occult, and sexuality.These poems mirror the abyss: divination, webcamming, myth, instant messages, queerness, witchcraft—all in the name of trying to feel something.Attachments area

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of La Belle Ajar, brings you a horror death themed collection with mortality, murder, and muerte oozing from every one of these terrifying verses.Inspired by NightWorms, Carmen Maria Machado''s Her Body and Other Parties & Nick Cave''s Murder Ballads, get ready to be haunted by serial killers, fatal femmes, poisoners, as these premeditated murderesses that slay you in terrifying poems. One step inside these grave inspired verses, you will want to re-experience We Are the Ones until the very end.Embrace the terror and prepare to be Possessed, Cepeda''s poems will mesmerize you with his bone-chilling death rhymes from the other side.PRAISE FOR WE ARE THE ONES POSSESSED"We Are the Ones Possessed is a vivid, heart breaking, and tragic collection of poems that drips from the pages with the viscosity of blood. Cepeda is a Latinx talent you should be reading as a horror and poetry fan. I highly recommend this beautiful book that reaches out and grabs you by the heart and throat. I adored Night Stalker Tattoo on Her Back." - V. Castro, author of Mestiza Blood, Goddess of Filth & The Queen of the Cicadas "With nods to various icons of art, music, and literature, these pieces are so beautiful and stunning. Gilded in twilight and darkness, We Are the Ones Possessed is a collection of poetry that guides us along fragments of moments, with the tortured and the torturer. Scenes in dark rooms, across environments and situations pulsate with bloody ecstasy, attraction, and betrayal. We Are the Ones Possessed shows us not only what we''ve had done to us, but what we have done." - Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award nominated author and poet "Cepeda''s haunting poems, inspired by existing written work and visuals, are a medley of daydreams & nightmares, floating in the middle of a fateful dance of death and sex. The winged beauty in the shadows of love/revenge painted by his exceptional verse in We Are the Ones Possessed will take your breath away."- Linda D. Addison, award-winning author, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and SFPA Grand Master  

Rooted in the beauty and violence of Florida''s landscape, these poems are an exploration of love, sex, martyrdom, home, and what we bring with us when we choose poetry to record the intimacies of a life.

Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation.Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, and complicity must be transformed again and again. Addressed to an amorphous you, Lerman wrestles with the forces of birth and death, creation and destruction-going deep into the subterranean strata of consciousness and back."An incantatory and hypnotic work of voice, What Are You exists at the apex of creation and destruction, desire and shame, innocence and experience, violence and tenderness, rapture and suffering, hunger and the denial of flesh. To read it is to feel the terror of falling from a great height-but wanting to; maybe even choosing to jump."-Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star and True Love "Lindsay Lerman is brilliant. This book manages to be fiercely direct and enigmatic at the same time. It hit me the way Duras, Zambreno, and Lispector do."-Nate Lippens, author of My Dead Book "What Are You is relentlessly and elegantly erudite, yet deeply felt and compulsively readable. There is nothing in literature, philosophy, or her own life that seems beyond Lerman''s capable grasp. She has a particular genius for weaving together disparate elements that would leave a lesser writer dumbfounded."-Nicola Maye Goldberg, author of Nothing Can Hurt You "Passionate, dispassionate, hypnotic, deadpan, ecstatic, Lindsay Lerman''s What Are You, read it now. Now."-Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher and Dark Factory "Lerman''s prose evades categorical thinking and forces you to reconcile yourself to the fact that individuals and their worlds are dynamic, reflexive, and reciprocally determined. It''s a slippery book that demands we deal with it in its full complexity, without recourse to the simplifying unities we would normally use to reduce people to what they aren''t. Lindsay Lerman is insidiously powerful; you don''t realize what she''s done to you until it''s done. Purgatory in the sense of catharsis, a text for devouring and devotion."-Charlene Elsby, author of Hexis and Psychros "Holy shit! This book had me hypnotized. It''s raw and rigorous and sexy and relentless and completely on fire - it''s a cold beer beside an active volcano, and it''s delicious. Like Chris Kraus and Maggie Nelson, What Are You wrestles critical theory to the ground and emerges with a triumphant, radical, thrilling, clarifying new form of writing about sex, feminism, and the self."-Kate Reed Petty, author of True Story "Lindsay Lerman gives a sense that the author and the reader are on the run together, foraging a path of discovery as they flee. With prose both beautiful and relentlessly shifting with experiment, this book meets the reader at not-knowing and carries them forward, scouting the territory just one step ahead."-Alex DiFrancesco, author of All City and Transmutation

The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most renowned author of the time. What could Alcott say to Dickinson about abolitionism and woman's rights? What might Dickinson reveal to Alcott about her thoughts on marriage and eternity? Researched for over five years and drawing heavily on biographical facts, these luminous letters present a friendship that explores the questions of family responsibilities, women's growing influence in the literary world, the cost of fame and the power of sorority.

After giving up on his dream of being a published writer, Chris is plagued by a series of nightmarish visions of grotesque creatures. As the visions manifest with greater frequency they start targeting his young daughter. They are finding their way into his world and only he can fight them. Chris must uncover the truth about his connection to this strange, sadistic realm, and plunge headfirst into the unknown if he wants to save his daughter and himself.

Dubbed a 2018 Debut Writer to Watch by Publisher's WeeklyNudes on Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 and an SPD Best SellerThrough diaristic ellipses, Nash crafts an origin story of obsessional masochism.Drawing on the nostalgia of a nascent digital age and grappling with an eating disorder, indie cult author Elle Nash paints a realistic and poignant portrait of a teenager's quest for self-identification on both sides of the computer screen. Using Livejournal entries, we meet our protagonist, in her messy transition into adulthood in the midst of grappling with calorie counts, boys, and being honest with who she is only online. Following up her cult fiction debut Animals Eat Each Other, Nash shows she belongs in the same camp along with exciting feminist literary disrupters the likes of Melissa Broder and Alissa Nutting.It's 2005. Lucy shambles through the last weeks of her senior year of high school, jonesing for a thinner body, desperate to connect with another human. Who is reflected back at her when she is sleeping with someone, when she is puking into the toilet bowl? Who is reflected back when she's alone? Only the internet knows, where she muses on the concept of her ?self? through her Livejournal, with a cadre of online friends who are definitely NOT pro-anorexic. Everyone's sick here, but at least they understand.

AT SEA is a collection that? at times introspective and confessional, at times perceptively aimed outward, toward a vertiginous world? sails the pathway between trauma and healing. Readers are taken aboard into a microcosm where wonder meets waterlogged torment and self-harm; where grief, euphoria and longing coexist; where womanhood is as joyful and dizzying an experience as it is searing; where peeling the layers of cultural identity is like plunging into the most opaque and briny deep. While the act of remembering has solitary, melancholy tinges, Aïcha Martine Thiam's pen never wavers, nor does it stray far from the impulse to bear witness, to do justice, and to connect with kindred souls.

Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, SOBR sets out to clear his graffiti name while haunted by a foretelling of his impending death. Set in a familiar version of LA located somewhere in the multiverse where the United States has become ruled by a king, the people worship the Greek and Roman gods, and society is on the brink of a proletarian revolution, ILL BEHAVIOR is an unorthodox take on LA noir and a modern extension of ancient mythology.