“Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-collection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.”
– Gary Lutz

The stories in Other Kinds are about a place. They are stories about the woods, houses hidden in the gaps between mountains. Behind them, the skeletons of old and powerful machines rust into the slate and leaves. Water red with iron leeches from the empty mines and pools near a stone foundation. The boy there plays in the bones because he is a child and this will be his childhood. He watches while winter comes falling slowly down over the road. Sometimes he remembers a girl, her hair and the perfume she wore...

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The stories in Fast Machine come in three sizes: flash, regular, and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. There are slightly more than four hundred pages. Zero epigraphs. There are repeated themes: driving, smoking, teenagers, drinking, escape, the Midwest, masturbation, self-loathing and blood.

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I Have Blinded Myself Writing This was written by a woman with an affliction: her body needs her memories to clot her cuts, to heal means to lose parts of her past.  It is a collection of the blueprints, lists, and photographs of memory meant to be private.  It a book written for you.  It is a question: as we lose our memories, do we become fragments of ourselves? It is a plea: participate with me in the remembering and the destruction of memory. 

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Greenfeld writes beautifully crafted stories with an authority, humor, and confidence reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis, Phillip Roth, and Ernest Hemingway.

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The Avian Gospels by Adam Novy

"This debut has the potential to become a cult classic... a fascinating examination of what makes a martyr, a myth, or a legend."
– Publishers Weekly

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Big World by Mary Miller

"Big World gives a full anatomy lesson of the kind of heart that's kick-started by booze, cigarettes, and jukebox songs of regret. Miller writes with savage charm."
– The Believer

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The Sicily Papers by Michelle Orange

"The Sicily Papers embodies the aimless joy (of travel) in a way that most travel books don't. It has the texture of the journey. It has the feel of the unstructured days."
– Frank Bures (books editor, World Hum)

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