A. G. Lombardo's wildly entertaining debut reimagines the 1965 Watts Riots as an Homeric journey through rioting cops, burning streets, CIA conspiracies and the potentially fatal semiotics of race and oppression in America. Along the way, we also run into Godzilla, Elijah Muhammad, the greatest taggers in the history of Los Angeles freeway art and a deadly fortune cookie war.
”Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill
Maria Dahvana Headley writes with crackling headlong sentences that range among old plots and news observations about a world that earlier today seemed too familiar. Master story teller, brilliant stylist, a writer with this sort of command of language is a delight to read. Here's a book to call up an old story in the newest possible way.
”Samuel R. Delany on The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
In the masterful and rueful Whiskey, the sentences and dialogue burn like 100 proof shots of the novel’s namesake: smoky, sharp, and chased with black humor.
”Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant
on Whiskey by Bruce Holbert
A compact, brutal story of losing power and creating community . . . beautifully written, with a flexible, efficient precision that embodies the protagonist's voice and character."
”Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review, on So Lucky by Nicola Griffith
Acid West is a freaky, stylish, heart-cracking-open book about the beautiful and bonkers badlands of the Southwest. Josh Wheeler’s essays throb with radioactive resonance and the Technicolor brilliance of a desert sunset. I’m in awe of this book.
”Claire Vaye Watkins, on Acid West by Joshua Wheeler
Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human.
”Leslie Jamison on Nothing Good Can Come From This by Kristi Coulter
HIGH SCHOOL, a memoir by Tegan and Sara
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Rich is a talent with a full head of steam, and he possesses that quality I admire most in any novelist—a mind for details that is equal parts percipient and original . . . His authorial vision is both a delight and a terror to behold.
”Maxwell George, Oxford American
on King Zeno by Nathaniel Rich
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A perfect evocation of the beautiful, strange, frightening, funny territory of new motherhood. Kiesling writes with great intelligence and candor about the surreal topography of a day with an infant, and toggles skillfully between the landscape of Daphne's interior and the California desert, her postpartum body and the body politic. A love story for our fractured era.
”Karen Russell on The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
