Absurdist
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories
$25.00 Read moreThese newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time.
Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern lit- Series: German List
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1803095458
- Language: English
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A Void
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation
A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User’s Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, ch- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928226
- Language: English
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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
$28.00 Add to cartAn explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through … [more below]
- Author: Szpila, Agnieszka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700899
- Language: English
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Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
$27.99 Read moreA darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell.
And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?…
I would say I was Dan Moran, a Ko
- Author: Cottrell, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063435063
- Language: English
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Blob: A Love Story
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Su, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063358670
- Language: English
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One, None, and a Hundred Grand
$22.00 Add to cartA hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.
This uproarious new translation of One, None,- Author: Pirandello, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1962770346
- Language: English
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The Hitch
$27.00 Add to cart“A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.”–New York Times
From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the
- Author: Levine, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0802165923
- Language: English
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
$29.95 Add to cartSet in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0811226646
- Language: English
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
$22.95 Add to cartSet in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239705
- Language: English
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The Endless Week
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age.
Like Beckett’s nov- Author: Vazquez, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1948980274
- Language: English
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Zone 23
$29.99 Add to cartA darkly comic dystopian satire about being human–all too human.
In a post-catastrophic dystopian future–peaceful, prosperous, and corporate-controlled–non-conformity is a diagnosable disorder, an- Author: Hopkins, C. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1648211445
- Language: English
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Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel
$18.95 Add to cartAesop meets Ana?s Nin in these absurdist stories of very unexpected redemption
Getting to the Shamrock Motel isn’t easy. It’s just off Concession #18, but you can’t get there through a sequence of left
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455017
- Language: English
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Blob: A Love Story
$26.99 Add to cart“There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the m
- Author: Su, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063358646
- Language: English
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How the Dead Dream
$16.95 Read moreA young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who’s been d… [more below]
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767900
- Language: English
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Harold
$17.99 Add to cartA uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.
Steven Wright is one of the most signi- Author: Wright, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1668022702
- Language: English
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Mood Swings
$26.00 Read more“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602596
- Language: English
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Mood Swings
$17.00 Add to cart“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603126
- Language: English
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
$16.00 Read more“Disturbing and darkly funny, McGhee’s surrealist debut is sure to keep readers up at night.” —People
Now in paperback, an Electric Literature and Chicago Review of Books best book of the year, the d- Author: McGhee, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602707
- Language: English
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Autocorrect: Stories
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls “Genius,” a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning.
Etgar Ker- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593717236
- Language: English
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Plastic
$18.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental dest… [more below]
- Author: Guild, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467671
- Language: English
