With an experiment in form, Mark Leyner’s latest novel The Sugar Frosted Nutsack turns the exploits of a nobody into the stuff of whacked-out folklore. …more

In Dagoberto Gilb’s new collection of short stories, Before the End, After the Beginning, we see people in transitional phases―neither flying nor drowing, but floating. …more

Alan Heathcock’s stories are linked by the town of Krafton—where missing teenagers hang from trees and all anyone wants to do is get out. …more

The latest novel from Douglas Coupland critiques contemporary culture, but lacks fresh perspectives.

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In Antonya Nelson’s fourth novel, characters are tied to one another by love, by chance, by obligation—and by fear. …more

“Amnesia had long streaming hair bleached to a dazzling white and was always clad in black. Flying through the air she seemed like a Valkyrie warrior plunging down from Valhalla.” …more

Alex Taylor’s collection of stories set in Kentucky channels Southern greats like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. …more

This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries. …more

Stephanie Johnson’s microfiction creates rich subtext in few words, making each story complicated and true, and each character alive and familiar. …more

An expanded on-line novel aimed at the teenage-slacker demo offers one too many penis jokes and pop-culture shout outs. …more

A collection of wisdom, witticisms, hypothetical scenarios, and recipes (really!) lays out the principles of “Keithism” …more