Ghost PainsWith her novel The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review and Harper's some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers. Stevens's women throw disastrous parties in the post party era, flirt through landscapes of terror and war, and find

Lucy Stein

It is the early 1990's and a young a self-taught female musician wants to become a rock star

Gerda Stevenson

this mission to find King David

Ian Maleney's masterly book of essays

As life around the world retreated behind closed doors

Set in the period before and through the Bangladeshi war of independence

(Pasternak among them)

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He has no idea of the nightmare

youth bound to toil behind the trenches of France

From the depths of Space a new foe rises to do battle with mankind: the British Space Empire is threatened by the lemming-people of Yull