The Reactive (22 page)

1940
A NOVEL BY JAY NEUGEBOREN

“Jay Neugeboren traverses the Hitlerian tightrope with all the skill and formal daring that have made him one of our most honored writers of literary fiction and masterful nonfiction.
[1940]
is, at once, a beautifully realized work of imagined history, a rich and varied character study and a subtly layered novel of ideas, all wrapped in a propulsively readable story.”
—Los Angeles Times

BABY GEISHA
STORIES BY TRINIE DALTON

“[The stories] feel like brilliant sexual fairy tales on drugs. Dalton writes of self-discovery and sex with a knowing humility and humor.”
—
Interview Magazine

“Dalton handles her narratives with a deft skill and a keen, distinct, confident voice that never eases up.” —
The Brooklyn Rail

THE CAVE MAN
A NOVEL BY XIAODA XIAO

* WOSU (NPR member station) Favorite Book of 2009

“As a parable of modern China, [The
Cave
Man] is chilling.”
—Boston Globe

“Hair-raising. Xiao's literary ancestors include Kafka and Solzhenitsyn.”
—Counterpunch

SEVEN DAYS IN RIO
A NOVEL BY FRANCIS LEVY

“The funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte's
The Ask.”
—Village Voice

“Like an erotic version of Luis Bunuel's
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.” —The Cult

THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER
A NOVEL BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

*
Time Out New York's
Best Book of 2008

*
Fore Word Magazine
2008 Gold Medal in Literary Fiction

“A picaresque American
Book of the Dead…
in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Terry Southern.”
—Los Angeles Times

THE SHANGHAI GESTURE
A NOVEL BY GARY INDIANA

“An uproarious, confounding, turbocharged fantasia that manages, alongside all its imaginative bravura, to hold up to our globalized epoch the fun-house mirror it deserves.” —
Bookforum

“Funny, in something of the parodic, tongue-in-cheek mode of
The

Princess Bride
or
Austin Powers.” —Washington Post

TERMITE PARADE
A NOVEL BY JOSHUA MOHR

*
Sacramento Bee
Best Read of 2010

“[A] wry and unnerving story of bad love gone rotten. [Mohr] has a generous understanding of his characters, whom he describes with an intelligence and sensitivity that pulls you in. This is no small achievement.”
—New York Times Book Review

FLATS / QUAKE
TWO CLASSIC NOVELS BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER

“Wurlitzer might be the closest thing we have to an actual cult author, a highly talented fiction writer.” —
Barnes & Noble Review

“Together they provide a tour of the dissolution of identity that was daily life in the sixties.” —Michael Silverblatt, KCRW's
Bookworm

I'M NOT PATRICK
A FILM BY ERIC OBENAUF

A black comedy that follows Seth, a teenager whose twin brother, Patrick, has suddenly, tragically, committed suicide. Seth doesn't know what to feel, but everyone is eager to suggest what they imagine to be typical reactions to monozygotic suicide.

“Bridging contemplations on identity with witty digressions, the dark comedy is an approachable, offbeat tale.”
—The Columbus Alive

Coming 2016!

THE REMOVALS
A FILM BY NICHOLAS ROMBES

Part-thriller, part-nightmarish examination of the widening gap between originality and technology, told with remarkable precision.

Haunting and engaging,
The Removals
imagines where we go from here.