Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: state, fugue
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1566892252
ISBN-13: 9781566892254

“Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson’s ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter linguistic control.”—Time Out New York “19 satisfying and surreal stories...packed with subtly hilarious sentences.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.”—Jonathan Lethem "The stories in this collection will thrill, uns

Author: Ange Mlinko
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: season, shoulder
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1566892430
ISBN-13: 9781566892438

“In Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season observation and metaphor are always on edge. . . . The poems are at once formally engaged, playful, and disturbing. It’s a wild ride and a great read.”—Rae Armantrout With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of twenty-first-century life, where the mind might still be “a little spa,” but the future “is hedged against the / boys who died.” A longtime East Coast resident and language columnist for The Nation, Ange Mlinko curren

Author: Sam Savage
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: sloth
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1566892317
ISBN-13: 9781566892315

Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is—quite literally— authoring his own downfall. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, this novel is a collection of everything Whittaker commits to paper over the course of four critical months. Beginning in July, during the economic hardships of the Nixon era, we witness our hero hounded by tenants and c

Author: Ange Mlinko
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: series, books, poetry, national, wire, starred
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1566891779
ISBN-13: 9781566891776

"A fine-grained light like that of a 19th-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems. Mlinko leads us through a mysterious space where cultural references and private recollections mingle and metamorphose into startling, dreamlike atmospheres in which ‘blue equals blue and lemon equals lemon’ and ‘the roses [have] grown to obscure the rose-names.’"—John Ashbery"Things collide in Ange Mlinko’s wonderful poems—words, attitudes, phrasings, meanings—and the sparks fly. Her poetry is simultaneously tough-minded and gorgeous. If I

Author: Bob Kaufman
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: guitar, cranial
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1566890381
ISBN-13: 9781566890380

incl the entire long out-of-print GOLDEN SARDINE

Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: hotel
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1566892392
ISBN-13: 9781566892391

“With humor and bite, [Yamashita] takes on waste, greed, stupidity, love, environmental and cultural apocalypse and the problems of migration and belonging—achieving a kind of cross between Kobo Abe, Gabriel García Márquez and Upton Sinclair.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kenn

Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: orange, tropic
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1566890640
ISBN-13: 9781566890649

This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news executive, Emi, and a Latino newspaper reporter, Gabriel, who are so focused on chasing stories they almost don’t notice that the world is falling apart all around them. Karen Tei Yamashita’s staccato prose works well to evoke the frenetic breeziness and monumental self-absorption that are central to their lives.-Janet Kaye, The New York Times Book Review