Crystal Eaters (23 page)

MADE TO BREAK

A NOVEL BY D. FOY

“With influences that range from Jack Kerouac to Tom Waits and a prose that possesses a fast, strange, perennially changing rhythm that’s somewhat akin to some of John Coltrane’s wildest compositions.” —
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“Strange and freewheeling… cerebral and immediate.”

                           
—
Los Angeles Review of Books

    
THE CAVE MAN

     
A NOVEL BY XIAODA XIAO

     
*
  
WOSU
(NPR member station) Favorite Book of 2009.

     
“As a parable of modern China, [
The Cave Man
] is chilling.”

     
—
Boston Globe

CRAPALACHIA

A NOVEL BY SCOTT MCCLANAHAN

“[McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon… He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger.” —
New York Times Book Review

“
Crapalachia
is the genuine article: intelligent, atmospheric, raucously funny and utterly wrenching. McClanahan joins Daniel Woodrell and Tom Franklin as a master chronicler of backwoods rural America.”

—
The Washington Post

RADIO IRIS

A NOVEL BY ANNE-MARIE KINNEY

“Kinney is a Southern California Camus.” —
Los Angeles Magazine

“[
Radio Iris
] has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.” —
New York Times Book Review
, Editors’ Choice

THE PEOPLE WHO WATCHED HER PASS BY

A NOVEL BY SCOTT BRADFIELD

“Challenging [and] original… A billowy adventure of a book. In a book that supplies few answers, Bradfield’s lavish eloquence is the presiding constant.” —
New York Times Book Review

“Brave and unforgettable. Scott Bradfield creates a country for the reader to wander through, holding Sal’s hand, assuming goodness.”

—
Los Angeles Times

I’M TRYING TO REACH YOU

A NOVEL BY BARBARA BROWNING

*
  
The Believer
Book Award Finalist

“I think I love this book so much because it contains intimations of the potential of what books can be in the future, and also because it’s hilarious.” —Emily Gould,
BuzzFeed

NOG

A NOVEL BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

“[
Nog
’s] combo of Samuel Beckett syntax and hippie-era freakiness mapped out new literary territory for generations to come.” —
Time Out New York

THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER

A NOVEL BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

    
*
  
Time Out New York
’s Best Book of 2008.

    
*
  
ForeWord
Magazine 2008 Gold Medal in Literary Fiction.

“A picaresque American
Book of the Dead
… in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and

Terry Southern.” —
Los Angeles Times

FLATS / QUAKE

TWO CLASSIC NOVELS BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

“Wurlitzer might be the closest thing we have to an actual cult author, a highly talented fiction writer.”

—
Barnes & Noble Review

“Together they provide a tour of the dissolution of identity that was daily life in the sixties.”

—Michael Silverblatt,
KCRW’s Bookworm

DAMASCUS

A NOVEL BY JOSHUA MOHR

“
Damascus
succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision.”

—
The Wall Street Journal

“Nails the atmosphere of a San Francisco still breathing in the smoke that lingers from the days of Jim Jones and Dan White.” —
New York Times Book Review

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

A NOVEL BY JAY NEUGEBOREN

“Epic…
The Other Side of the World
can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope… [An] inventive novel.” —
The Washington Post

“Neugeboren presents a meditation on life, love, art and family relationships that’s reminiscent of the best of John Updike.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

THE SHANGHAI GESTURE

A NOVEL BY GARY INDIANA

“An uproarious, confounding, turbocharged fantasia that manages, alongside all its imaginative bravura, to hold up to our globalized epoch the fun-house mirror it deserves.” —
Bookforum

SOME THINGS THAT MEANT THE WORLD TO ME

A NOVEL BY JOSHUA MOHR

    
*
  
O, The Oprah Magazine
‘10 Terrific Reads of 2009.’

“Charles Bukowski fans will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco.” —
O, The Oprah Magazine

BABY GEISHA

STORIES BY TRINIE DALTON

“[The stories] feel like brilliant sexual fairy tales on drugs. Dalton writes of self-discovery and sex with a knowing humility and humor.”

—
Interview Magazine

1940

A NOVEL BY JAY NEUGEBOREN

*
  
Long list, 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

“Jay Neugeboren traverses the Hitlerian tightrope with all the skill and formal daring that have made him one of our most honored writers of literary fiction and masterful nonfiction.”

—
Los Angeles Times

TERMITE PARADE

A NOVEL BY JOSHUA MOHR

    
*
  
Sacramento Bee
Best Read of 2010.

“[A] wry and unnerving story of bad love gone rotten. [Mohr] has a generous understanding of his characters, whom he describes with an intelligence and sensitivity that pulls you in. This is no small achievement.” —
New York Times Book Review

I SMILE BACK

A NOVEL BY AMY KOPPELMAN

“Powerful. Koppelman’s instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity.” —
Los Angeles Times

EROTOMANIA: A ROMANCE

A NOVEL BY FRANCIS LEVY

    
*
  
Queerty
Top 10 Book of 2008.

    
*
  
Inland Empire Weekly
Standout Book of 2008.

“Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors.”

—
Village Voice

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