The Reactive (21 page)

Read The Reactive Online

Authors: Masande Ntshanga

BOOK: The Reactive
9.58Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

NOT DARK YET
A NOVEL BY BERIT ELLINGSEN

“Fascinating, surreal, gorgeously written, and like nothing you've ever read before.”
—BuzzFeed

“… suspenseful and haunting… This is a remarkable novel from a very talented author.”
—Publishers Weekly
(starred)

MIRA CORPORA
A NOVEL BY JEFF JACKSON

*
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize Finalist

*
One of the Best Books of 2013 —
Slate, Salon, Flavorwire

“Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films.”
—Wall Street Journal

NOG
A NOVEL BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

“A strange, singular book… somewhere between Psychedelic Superman and Samuel Beckett.”
—Newsweek

“The Novel of Bullshit is dead.” —Thomas Pynchon

“Nog
is to literature what Dylan is to lyrics.”
—Village Voice

THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS
A NOVEL BY GRACE KRILANOVICH

*
National Book Foundation 2010 ‘5 Under 35' Selection

*
NPR Best Books of 2010

*
The Believer
Book Award Finalist

“Krilanovich's work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins.” —
NPR

YOU ARE MY HEART AND OTHER STORIES
STORIES BY JAY NEUGEBOREN

“[Neugeboren] might not be as famous as some of his compeers, like Philip Roth or John Updike, but it's becoming increasingly harder to argue that he's any less talented… dazzlingly smart and deeply felt.” —Michael Schaub,
Kirkus Reviews

DAMASCUS
A NOVEL BY JOSHUA MOHR

“Damascus
succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision.”
—
The Wall Street Journal

“Nails the atmosphere of a San Francisco still breathing in the smoke that lingers from the days of Jim Jones and Dan White.”
—New York Times Book Review

EROTOMANIA: A ROMANCE
A NOVEL BY FRANCIS LEVY

*
Queerty Top 10 Book of 2008

*
Inland Empire Weekly
Standout Book of 2008

“Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors.”
—Village Voice

Sex is familiar, but it's perennial, and Levy makes it fresh.”
—
Los Angeles Times

I SMILE BACK
A NOVEL BY AMY KOPPELMAN

* Now a major film starring Sarah Silverman & Josh Charles!

“Powerful. Koppelman's instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Koppelman explores with ruthless honesty a woman come undone.”
—Bookslut

ANCIENT OCEANS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY
A NOVEL BY DAVID CONNERLEY NAHM

* One of the Best Books of 2014
—NPR,
Flavorwire

“Wonderful… Remarkable… it's impossible to stop reading until you've gone through each beautiful line, a beauty that infuses the whole novel, even in its darkest moments.” —NPR

THE PEOPLE WHO WATCHED HER PASS BY
A NOVEL BY SCOTT BRADFIELD

“Challenging [and] original… A billowy adventure of a book. In a book that supplies few answers, Bradfield's lavish eloquence is the presiding constant.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Brave and unforgettable.”
—Los Angeles Times

Other books

Loved by a Devil by James Martins
The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
The Beginning of Us by Alexis Noelle
The Miser's Sister by Carola Dunn