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Cover of "Portrait of the Walurs By A Young Artist," by Laurie Foos, which features illustrations of a spray paint bottle, some kind of emoji, and a slice of green pizza.

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Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist

Cover of "Pictures of a Dying Man," by Agymah Kamau, which features an illustration of palm trees, the sun, grass, and wind whirls, all done in chalk and set against a black background.

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Pictures of a Dying Man

Cover of "Sidewalks," by Valeria Luiselli, which shows an image of a street lined with cars, houses, and a sidewalk with a pedestrian. The title is written on a sticky note that is posted above this image.

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Sidewalks

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I Hotel (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

Cover of "Leaving the Atocha Station," by Ben Lerner, which contains six different images that have all ben stretched out of proportion, so that it is difficult to tell what the original image was.

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Leaving the Atocha Station

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The Song of Percival Peacock

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The Story of My Teeth

Cover of "Crowning the Queen of Love," by Susan Welch, which features an image of a few people leaning against a bar in muted colors.

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Crowning the Queen of Love

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Twelve Branches

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HOMES

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Gold Cure

Cover of "Fugue State," by Brian Evenson, which has smears of neutral colors and unreadable typography in the lower right corner.

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Fugue State

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The Impossibly

Cover of "Empty Pockets," by Dale Herd, which shows a small segment of a few different highway signs and a street lamp under a gray sky.

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Empty Pockets

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Original by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (9781335430991)

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Cover of "Our Sometime Sister," by Norah Labiner, which features a black and white image of a woman who has writing overlaid on top of her.

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Our Sometime Sister

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The Weather That Kills

Cover of "Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow," by Andy Sturdevant, which features several small illustrations of mundane objects, such as a tape dispenser, the news paper, and a billboard.

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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow

Cover of "The Lakestown Rebellion," by Kristin Lattany, featuring a saturated image of a construction sign reading 'Road Construction Ahead'.

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The Lakestown Rebellion

Cover of "German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons," by Norah Labiner, which features a black and white photo of two young girls wearing dresses and standing on some sort of drift wood.

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German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons

Cover of "The Complexities of Intimacy," byMary Capongro, which shows three wooden dolls in ragged clothing standing with their arms stretched wide.

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The Complexities of Intimacy

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Things to Make and Break

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Cover of "How We Speak To One Another," edited by Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold, which shows stick-figure people in various poses holding red and white flags, and each contributors name is listed below a figure.

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How We Speak to One Another

Cover of "The Meat and Spirit Plan," by Selah Saterstrom, featuring a discolored purple photo of a woman wearing a cloak and a hood with devil horns.

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The Meat and Spirit Plan

Cover of Jessica Treat's "A Robber in the House," featuring a black and white abstract image of a face on a red background.

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A Robber in the House

Cover of the book bundle "Brian Evenson: New and Reissued", which features four books by Evenson that fuse together in this cover to create a hybrid create.

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Brian Evenson, New and Reissued

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Windeye

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Song for the Unraveling of the World

Cover of "The Mermaid That Came Between Them," by Carol Ann Sima, featuring an illustration done in black and white of an ocean with a large fish's tale emerging from the waves.

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The Mermaid That Came Between Them

Cover of "Miniatures," by Norah Labiner, which shows a pixelated image of a room containing a desk with a typewriter on top, and a few tables and chairs. There are also double doors that open into another larger room.

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Miniatures

Cover of "Bring Us the Old People," by Marisa Kantor Stark, featuring a brown room with a mannequin body wrapped in thorns, as well as two portraits of a man and woman in the background.

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Bring Us the Old People

Cover of "Screaming Monkeys," which shows a small illustration of a stick figure man with a detailed head and face, and the rest of the cover is in black and yellow.

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Screaming Monkeys

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Safe Houses I Have Known

Cover of "The Devil's Snake Curve," by Josh Ostergaard, which shows a blue background that meets a tan color at the bottom of the page, as well as includes an illustration of a baseball.

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The Devil's Snake Curve

Cover of "Sleep," by Stephen Dixon, which features a photograph of two people's feet with the rest of their bodies hidden under a white sheet.

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Sleep

Cover of "Becoming Weather," by Chris Martin, which is a mix of blues, greens, and yellows on what looks like crumpled paper.

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Becoming Weather

Cover of the Spring 2023 Subscription, showcasing the covers of the five featured titles; "A Cowardly Woman No More", "the heiress/ghost acres", "In Vitro", "When The Hibiscus Falls", and "The Plotinus".

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Spring 2023 Subscription

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The Way of the Dog

Cover of Sarah Fox's "Because Why," with swirling colors of blues, greens, reds, and purples.

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Because Why

Cover of "Testify," by Joseph Lease, which shows an image of a chain link fence that is colored in shades of orange and blue and contains a chain and padlock.

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Testify

Cover of "The Pink Institution," by Selah Saterstrom, which has the image of a pink pig superimposed in front of a black and white photo of a group of people in 1800's fashion.

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The Pink Institution

Cover of "The Last Communist Virgin," by Wang Ping, which shows an image of a woman turned away from the viewer to expose the three stars tattooed on the back of her shoulder as she looks at a brick wall.

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The Last Communist Virgin

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The Spoils

Cover of "A Long Way From St. Louie" by Collen J. McElroy, with a dark blue background and orange flowers, as well as the back of a lady dressed in orange wearing a large orange hat.

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A Long Way from St. Louie

Open Letter

Cover of "Let the Dark Flower Blossom," by Norah Labiner, featuring an image of a field covered in snow and a cluster of bare-limbed trees.

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Let the Dark Flower Blossom

Cover of "Certain People," by Roberta Allen, with yellow rocking chair and broom as the focal point within a black and white room.

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Certain People

Cover of the Fall 2024 Subscription, highlighting the covers of the featured titles; "Good night, Sleep tight", "Lesser Ruins", "Sound Museum", "Sand-Catcher", "Out of the Blank", and "True Failure".

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Fall 2024 Subscription

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Cover of "Green is for World," by Juliana Leslie, focusing on the image of several scraps of paper in various shades of blues, greens, and whites.

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Green Is for World

Cover of "Shut Up Shut Down," by Mark Nowak, which features an image of an industrial machine which is flying an upside down American flag from the top, and the entire image is shaded in red.

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Shut Up Shut Down

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Cover of "Bleed Through," by Michael Davidson, with text that is reversed and smudged, as if it has bled through the page.

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Bleed Through

Cover of "Last Days," by Brian Evenson, which features a sketched image of a wolf head with the shoulders and arms of a person, and one hand on this creature is holding a knife.

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Last Days

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Cover of "How to Be Perfect," by Ron Padgett, which features a detailed drawing in muted colors of a bird perched on some sort of wall mount.

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How to Be Perfect

Cover of "87 North" by Michael Coffey, includes a green map within an arrow shape that points up.

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87 North

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Cover of "The Last Warner Woman," by Kei Miller, which shows a silhouette of an arm holding a bundle of shadowed flowers against a bright red background.

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The Last Warner Woman

The cover of "A .38 Special and a Broken Heart" featuring a black background and a pair of cowboy boots covered in hearts and thorny roses.

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A .38 Special and a Broken Heart

Cover of "The Blue Girl," by Laurie Foos, which has a pink background and an image of a moon pie above the title.

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The Blue Girl

Cover of "The Magic Whip," by Wang Ping, featuring a photograph of a woman in a magenta robe braiding her long, dark hair.

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The Magic Whip

Cover of "Stephen Florida," by Gabe Habash, which has an illustration of a some sort of large wild cat pinning down a smaller animal between massive paws.

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Stephen Florida

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Cover of the collection Alternate Futures, featuring the covers of four titles; "The Breaks", "The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell", "Participation", and "Temporary".

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Alternate Futures

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Voice-Over

Cover of "Make Yourself Happy," by Eleni Sikelianos, which shows a blurry image of a crowd of people, some with hands raised, others with cameras out, and there is also a drum flying through the air above the crowd.

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Make Yourself Happy

Cover of "Slab," by Selah Saterstrom, which features a drawing of a woman wearing a tiger suit laying on her stomach, smoking a cigarette. There is also an image of a heart and cross behind her body.

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Slab

Book cover featuring a black and white image of a city at night in motion with the title and author in blue and white bold text on the top and bottom

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American Heaven

Cover of Ron Padgett's "Alone and Not Alone," with a Pinocchio-like sketch illustration.

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Alone and Not Alone

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Cover of "The Falling Down Dance," by Chris Martin, which shows a light purple background with a white liquid being poured in front of it.

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The Falling Down Dance

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Upright Beasts

Cover of the collection On Art (Novels), featuring the images of six selected titles; "Empty Set", "The Gift", "Leaving the Atocha Station", "Pink Mountain on Locust Island", "Search History", and "Saint Sebastian's Abyss".

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On Art (Novels)

Cover of "The Lion's Share," by Rochelle Ratner, showing a drawing of a woman in a blue dress sitting in a chair and holding a lion cub in her lap.

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The Lion's Share

Cover of "It Will End with Us," by Sam Savage, which features the image of a forest trail at dusk and many gnarled and creepy-looking trees.

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It Will End with Us

Cover of "Pick Up the House," by Anselm Hollo, which features a blue and white abstract art design.

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Pick Up the House

Cover of "Paul Metcalf Volume Two," by Paul Metcalf, which features a black and white image of a man in glasses smiling at the camera and leaning against a railing.

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Paul Metcalf, Volume II

Cover of "Crossing Three Wildernesses," by U Sam Oeur, which focuses on an ancient structure on the shores of a body of water, as well as a cloudy sky.

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Crossing Three Wildernesses

Cover of "The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far," by Quintan Ana Wikswo, which shows an image of a seaside partially covered by brambles and leafless branches.

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The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far

Cover of the collection Karen Tei Yamashita: The Novels, featuring the images of four of her works; "Tropic of Orange", "I Hotel", "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest", and "Brazil-Maru".

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Karen Tei Yamashita: The Novels

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An Orphanage of Dreams

Cover image of Brian Evenson's "A Collapse of Horses" on a dark orange background featuring a sketch of the back half of a horse and its tail.

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A Collapse of Horses

Cover of "Glass Houses," by George Rabasa, which shows an image of a window with a gauzy curtain, and this window looks out on a street in black and white with the only color to be found in the tail lights of a parked car.

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Glass Houses

Cover of the Spring 2026 Subscription featuring images of the five titles; "...Again", "Squirming", "Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun", "Ada", and "Yniga".

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Spring 2026 Subscription

Cover of "A Toast in The House of Friends," by Akilah Oliver, with a photograph of a sunset or sunrise in the background and silhouetted trees in the foreground.

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A Toast in the House of Friends

Book cover featuring background of beige parchment with aged lettering in four columns with the title as a serif font in the middle and the author name and genre as footnotes in red text at the bottom of cover

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A Complex Sentence

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The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

Cover of "A Strange Commonplace," by Gilbert Sorrentino, featuring a black and white dartboard with a red bullseye.

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A Strange Commonplace