prose titles (alphabetical by author)
|
They Become Her
REBBECCA BROWN Novel. Humorously ardent, poetically rich, and told from within the confines of a mental institution, They Become Her is a fictional autobiography of Delia Bacon, the first to propose that Shakespeare did not write his own works and whose own literary ambition inspired a life filled with fame, fervor, and scandal. |
|
April, May, and So On
FRANÇOIS CAMOIN Short Fiction. François Camoin's previous books include The End of The World is Los Angeles, which won the Associated Writing Program's award for fiction, and Why Men Are... Details |
|
|
No One Dies in Palmyra, Ohio
HENRY ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHER Fiction. The religious leader of a small town where the dead rise battles with his Christian faith and his love for those who love him. |
|
Romance World
TAMAR PERLA CANTWELL Short Fiction. These stories center around richly textured characters who, with clear-eyed awareness, seek to build relationships and shape better lives from fragments of yearning and self-love. |
|
The Mysterious Islands
AW DeANNUNTIS Short Fiction. DeAnnuntis offers a series of tales...which challenge what we assume can be known. Each takes place in a world that resembles one we recognize yet each suggests a gap. The question of whether those spaces are part of the world or within ourselves leads to intriguing and unlikely but immensely entertaining confusions. |
|
The Final Death of Rock-and-Roll and Other Stories
A.W. DEANNUNTIS Short Fiction. A compilation of fantastical and surreal short stories of everyday life in a parallel universe that includes unemployed bears, marvelous melons, literate mice, alien museums, baffling televisions, talking dogs, and Jimi Hendrix. |
|
Master Siger's Dream
A.W. DEANNUNTIS Novel. Just how many great lays, fast cars, and rounds on the Papal Back Nine can a thirteenth-century priest handle? Siger of Brabant, heretic, master of the Impossibilia... Details |
|
|
The Mermaid at the Americana Arms Motel
A.W. DEANNUNTIS Novel. A survivor of Europe's 20th-century nightmares now unhappily teaches art at a regional university. There, under the relentless desert sun, beside a swimming pool... Details |
|
|
The Origin of Stars and Other Stories
KATHARINE HAAKE Short Fiction. These stories, powerful eco-fables of down-home Americana, take place during the relentless rollover from one millennium to the next in a world remarkably... Details |
|
|
The Time of Quarantine
KATHARINE HAAKE Novel. Lyrical, provocative, and deeply haunting, The Time of Quarantine takes us into a near-distant future of post-human environmental collapse to chronicle the tale... Details |
|
|
Frottage & Even As We Speak
MONA HOUGHTON Novellas. These novellas—two powerful, two very different stories—are beautifully crafted, sometimes erotic, and always lyrical. What a wonderful surprise... Details |
|
|
The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking
RICH IVES Short Fiction. Rich Ives’ latest book is full of exquisitely worded stories. He’s a master at detailed description, but also in creating narrative from small, well-chosen moments that add up to an emotional connection... His prose is precise, almost crystalline, sharp and illuminating. ––Anita Endrezze, author of Butterfly Moon (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2012) and A Thousand Branches (Red Bird Press, 2014) |
|
Remembering Dismembrance: A Critical Compendium
DANIEL TAKESHI KRAUSE Novel. Quirky, cerebral, exquisitely tortuous, Daniel Takeshi’s first novel, Remembering Dismembrance, takes the form of a compendium of critical responses to a novel titled, Dismembrance, and advertises itself as a "second synchronic snapshot of discourse in action...claiming its place as not just the leading anthology for its subject matter but, in point of fact, the definitive piece of Dismemorabilia. It is, put simply, the only absolutely indispensable thread for anyone looking to enter this particular labyrinth.” But which labyrinth is that? |
|
The Eight Mile Suspended Carnival
REBECCA KUDER Novel. A tornado drops a young woman near the Eight Mile Suspended Carnival, with no memories and no name. The carnies adopt her and call her Mim. The carnival is a living beast: its spine the Tower of Misfortune; its arms the tents; its legs the rides; its blood the wine, food, and excrement flowing through carnies and guests... details |
|
Brittle Star
ROD VAL MOORE Novel. Exiled and abandoned on a distant planet, petty criminals enjoy their benign punishment, while one man plots to escape before he and the whole planet are transformed into a faux alien tourist attraction. |
|
|
Figures of Wood
MARÍA PÉREZ-TALAVERA Novel. A dark story that explores reality and imagination, told by a narrator whose perceptions of his own sanity grow more distorted over time. |
|
Are We Not There Yet?
Travels in Nepal, North India, and Bhutan CHUCK ROSENTHAL Magic Journalism. Irreverent is a good word to describe this chronicle of a four-month sojourn in North India and the Himalayas undertaken by a group of California college students... Details |
|
|
Coyote O'Donohughe's History of Texas
CHUCK ROSENTHAL Novel. Coyote O'Donohughe, son of a Mexican Creole soldier and a Comanche Shaman, learns shape shifting from his mother and turns the tide of history in the Mexican... Details |
|
|
The Shortest Farewells Are the Best
CHUCK ROSENTHAL & GAIL WRONSKY The Shortest Farewells Are the Best is a clever and hilarious tour de force. With lines culled from dozens of noir films ranging from the famous to the obscure, Chuck Rosenthal and Gail Wronsky have fashioned a brilliant literary collage that is as entertaining as it is thought provoking. I haven’t the foggiest notion of how they came up with the idea for this book, but I’m certainly glad their off-kilter muse paid them a visit. —Tom Hazuka, editor of Flash Fiction Funny |
|
West of Eden: A Life in 21st Century Los Angeles
CHUCK ROSENTHAL Magic Journalism. A Life in 21st century Los Angeles. A hilarious romp through the swamps of Los Angeles, Hollywood, Topanga Canyon, and Malibu. |
|
|
Gary Oldman Is a Building
You Must Walk Through FORREST ROTH Novel. Unemployed, aimless, stuck in a mundane relationship with a burned-out social worker, an anonymous writer (of some sort) awaits the phone call that he believes will change their fortunes: his being hired to script a television commercial featuring renowned actor Gary Oldman. |
|
Skeletal Lights From Afar
FORREST ROTH Prose. Collecting previously published flash fiction and prose poems, Skeletal Lights from Afar presents six galleries of enigmatic humans drifting towards destinations accidental and unknown. |
|
Rhombus and Oval
JESSICA SEQUEIRA Short Fiction. A collection of stories written in Buenos Aires but very much a product of the imagination, these impressions of people and environment seek to draw out what is best or most mysterious in their surroundings. |
|
Echo Under Story
KATHERINE SILVER Novel. Echo Under Story unfolds within a pristine land- and seascape of Northern California, where a woman struggles to restore her family home. The story weaves together three strands: her mother’s recently discovered journals, the daughter’s re-encounter with the village and the landscape of her childhood, and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. |
|
|
Keeping Tahoe Blue
ANDREW TONKOVICH Short Fiction. From a re-imagined Southern California childhood to adult confrontations with power both real and allegorical, these personally and politically engaged stories place their protagonists in everyday circumstances gone surreally rich in possibility, humor and potential resistance. Details |
|
Cover art and logo by GRONK
Copyright 2009-2012 What Books Press. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2009-2012 What Books Press. All Rights Reserved.
