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The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni
By John Domini
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The latest novel from Maurizio de Giovanni serves its noir macchiato: flecked with bright Neapolitan detail. A recent drug scandal has smeared the precinct’s reputation and left several officers behind bars. To replace those, law enforcement administration has culled people from around the city, pulling together—what else?—a gang of misfits. Each of the new hires bears an old wound, a painful secret, or both.

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God Is Round by Juan Villoro
By Ratik Asokan
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In “The Cartridge Family,” an old Simpsons episode, there’s a joke about the seeming impossibility of soccer ever becoming popular in the US. We are at an American soccer stadium, and a foreign commentator is off his seat, announcing the match with near-manic enthusiasm. All you see on the field,

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Hystopia:
A Novel
by David Means
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Hystopia by David Means
By Rebecca Donner
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In 1939, wondering how Russia would react to the expanding war, Winston Churchill memorably stated: It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. This is an apt description of Hystopia, David Means’s long-awaited novel about Vietnam. Means focuses not on the war but its irresolvable

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Under the Big Black Sun:
A Personal History of L.A. Punk
by John Doe and Tom DeSavia
Da Capo Press
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Under the Big Black Sun: a personal history of L.A. Punk by John Doe with Tom DeSavia
By Camden Joy
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In Los Angeles in the middle of the 1970s several hundred diverse misfits came together and began to collaborate. Some were high school glam-rock enthusiasts, like Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, or the boys who became Pat Smear and Darby Crash. Others were older, having traveled farther. From

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Looking at Pictures
by Robert Walser
translation by Susan Bernofsky and Lydia Davis
New Directions / Christine Burgin
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Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
By Michael Miller
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I It’s fun to imagine what the devoutly digressive Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) would have made of the term “plot twist.” His stories generate so many whimsical offshoots that the twists themselves become the plot, or rather a series of plots that are gleefully announced and abruptly

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by Natasha Stagg
Semiotext(e)
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Immaterial Girl
By Catherine Foulkrod
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Natasha Stagg laid it out in her DIS Magazine advice column back in 2011. “The internet is a void, nothing like life,” she wrote to a tween seeking advice on how to boost his Twitter following. “And it is your whole life, sometimes, isn’t it?”

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Something Will Happen, You'll See
by Christos Ikonomou
translation by Karen Emmerich
Archipelago
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Something Will Happen, You’ll See by Christos Ikonomou
By Ratik Asokan
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In “Go Out and Burn Them,” one of the standout stories in Greek writer Christos Ikonomou’s Something Will Happen, You’ll See, a bereaved widower is found climbing into a public trash bin. “Any man who lets his wife die like that,” he tells the passerby who stops him, “deserves to go out with the

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All the Houses:
A Novel
by Karen Olsson
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All The Houses by Karen Olsson
By Miranda Popkey
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Small human dramas, translated onto the world stage: this is the organizing principle beneath the deceptively fragmented surface of Olsson’s novel. It is also, her novel suggests—and convincingly—part of the secret history of foreign policy. “Here were both the grand mystery of government and its little human movers, with their travel mugs,” Olsson notes, “so small compared to the massive buildings.”

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A Collapse of Horses
by Brian Evenson
Coffee House Press
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A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
By Tobias Carroll
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In “The Blood Drip,” the story that ends A Collapse of Horses, the new collection from Brian Evenson, two men on a postapocalyptic frontier have gathered beside a fire. Well, one of them might not be a man, exactly—a ghost, perhaps, or a hallucination? But still, it’s an archetypal scene: two men, a roaring fire that’s the only light and heat in sight, and the aftermath of violence. One offers to tell a story; the other wavers. The first makes his case: “It’s just a story. A story can’t hurt.”

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Good on Paper
by Rachel Cantor
Melville House
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Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
By Jane Yong Kim
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“Translation requires, and generates, a rare kind of intimacy,” says the narrator of Rachel Cantor’s novel Good on Paper. “Like sex done right, I’ve always thought.… You had to want to get close.”

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By John Domini

By Ratik Asokan

Hystopia:

A Novel

by David Means

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$26.00 List Price

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By Rebecca Donner

Under the Big Black Sun:

A Personal History of L.A. Punk

by John Doe and Tom DeSavia

Da Capo Press

$26.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Camden Joy

Looking at Pictures

by Robert Walser

translation by Susan Bernofsky and Lydia Davis

New Directions / Christine Burgin

$24.95 List Price

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By Michael Miller

Surveys:

A Novel (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

by Natasha Stagg

Semiotext(e)

$15.95 List Price

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By Catherine Foulkrod

Something Will Happen, You'll See

by Christos Ikonomou

translation by Karen Emmerich

Archipelago

$18.00 List Price

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By Ratik Asokan

All the Houses:

A Novel

by Karen Olsson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$27.00 List Price

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By Miranda Popkey

A Collapse of Horses

by Brian Evenson

Coffee House Press

$16.95 List Price

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By Tobias Carroll

Good on Paper

by Rachel Cantor

Melville House

$25.95 List Price

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By Jane Yong Kim

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