Gathered Here Together

by Garrett Socol In this collection, Socol brings his wry insight and sensitivity to bear on the madness of contemporary culture, the silliness of everyday life, and illustrates the many ways people, against all odds, keep themselves afloat.

The Orange Suitcase

by Joseph Riippi In the 34 stories filling THE ORANGE SUITCASE, Joseph Riippi packs an intimate and powerful portrait of a young man’s life. From a childhood spent snipering neighbours with BB guns, to adulthood grasping at love and art in New York City, THE ORANGE SUITCASE shows us not only the way life is lived but – perhaps more importantly – how it is remembered.

The Graves We Dig

by Eric Elliott In The Graves We Dig, Eric Elliott tunnels through memory and experience as he reconciles past and present, blood and bone, the sensation of loss with the knowledge that what is lost will remain so forever. Grafted into beautiful photographs of decay, death, things that once were, each poem becomes a grave, a prayer.

Re:Telling

by William Walsh, ed. How many times can Super Mario die? Did Borges visit Indiana, or did Indiana visit Borges? Does the devil drink milk and, if not, why does he like milkmaids so much? And where do our hero turtles go when there are no more foot soldiers to fight? Welcome to Re:Telling, the anthology that answers these burning questions, and many, many more. This collection of fiction, poetry, and art features some of the independent publishing world’s favourite, most talented writers using recycled material: purloined plots, stolen settings, borrowed premises, and appropriated characters. It is subversion; it is homage. It is a ransacking of the treasure troves in our cultural basement, and nothing is off limits. The stories range from retellings of Shakespeare to Law & Order, from classical theatre to video games. Each piece is something picked up and dusted off, reworked and made new.

We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now

by Adam Gallari

At Times both funny and heartbreaking, Adam Gallari’s debut collection, We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now, offers a series of nine emotionally rich and incisive stories that follow characters grappling with the unanswerable question “What next?” A sudden encounter conjures a failed relationship.

A minor league pitcher, in the twilight of a career that never was, tries to divine his future. A young man accompanies his veteran neighbor and father to a V.F.W. a few years after refusing to attend Annapolis. Stoicism and grit belie the vulnerability of people ultimately searching for someone or something to trust in. Though his literary forbearers may be Richard Ford and Ernest Hemingway, Adam Gallari re-examines the masculine with a deftness and a grace entirely his own.

When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother

by Melissa Broder

Who's the queen of kundalini bloopers, Emily Dickinson's attitude problem (that bitch) and California dreams? It's Melissa Broder, who will charm your pants off and show you a little tough love in this vivid, witty first collection of poems.

Each poem is artisan-crafted in controlled couplets, weighty triplets, tight syllabics and assonance that will take the top of your head off. But you won't have the time to absorb the academic monkeyshine--so absorbed you'll be on the flip side of Bat Mitzvah stress-syndrome, Aunt Sheila's in Taos, vampires in absentia, and brand names, brand names, brand names. From junkie fetishism to a housewife with a special "thing" for laundry, Broder does dark with magnetic charisma and enchanting humor.

Dodging Traffic

by J. Bradley

J. Bradley's original style has earned him over 40 publication credits in 2009 alone. His debut poetry collection is long overdue. Celebrated far and wide for raucous subject matter and cartoonish imagery, J. Bradley's poetry presents a world brighter, dirtier, and more fun - a child's world through adult eyes.

This collection is unapologetically fun, sweet, and profound, written for people, not poets.

Do Something! Do Something!
Do Something!

by Joseph Riippi

This debut novel from Joseph Riippi, an MFA student at the City College of New York, is "a work of great literary power." In this fragmented, nontraditional narrative, Riippi explores the aftermath of stories, rather than simply telling them: A Critic chanting Susan Sontag quotes in a mental institution, The Girl with the Starfish Tattoo searching for a home, an acoholic Playwright fleeing divorce and human shrapnel.

Do Something is the story of uncertainty in a new America, of three young people looking for definitiveness in an increasingly shaky and volatile homeland.

Under What Stars

by Ryan J. Davidson

Ryan Davidson's male protagonists are affable and messy as Charles Bukowski's, if only Bukowski left Los Angeles more often. From Hong Kong to Venice, Harlem to Belgrade, readers will be introduced to a string of love affairs: the Sarahs of many continents. In the vein of Tony Hoagland, Davidson's poems are tangential gestures that both tell a story and transcend the subject. The poems aren't just about the girls themselves, but where they fall in and out of place and time.