Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshed-out songs and whispers and rumors of half-formed ones. They had songs that followed a hard-to-gauge internal logic. They had punk tunes and country tunes and sad tunes and funny ones. They had fuzzy pop and angular new wave. They had raunchy guitar solos and stoner blues. They had pristine j...

Are you fascinated by the art of melting and molding metal?Would you love to know how you can turn scraps into stunning tools, art, or functional parts—right from your own workshop?Now you can! Metal casting isn’t just for factories—it’s for YOU.Imagine taking raw metal, heating it to a fiery glow, and shaping it into something entirely new—whether it’s a piece of jewelry, a mechanical part, or a breathtaking sculpture.Meta...

"A sneakily disturbing, disarmingly profound, casually devastating memoir" of a young writer in NYC—and the fateful turn his life takes on Sept. 11, 2001 (Michael Chabon).In 1998, twenty-four-year-old Bryan Charles came to New York, following the well-trodden path of many before him—pursuing the life of a writer in the storied city far from his Midwestern roots. And like so many of his predecessors, his journey took him into squalid apartments and mind-numbing temp...

An engaging, often hilarious coming-of-age novel of uncertainty and discovery oozing with early 90s nostalgia."Funny and unpredictable...(Charles) proves impressively adept at capturing the inchoate ache of adolescent longing."— Washington PostIt's 1992, and America is caught in the grip of major Angst. In Washington, D.C., George H. W. Bush is rattling the mother of all sabres at Saddam Hussein. In Seattle, Curt Kobain is h...

The Humanity Protocol is a science fiction series that assumes a future where a wireless network of humans, called Humanity, allows everyone's personal memory to be as exchangeable as email.The Dust Solution is a science fiction thriller involving a conflict of survival between a team from Humanity running a clandestine experiment in the past and the ripple effects their experiment causes.John and his team go back in time to comple...

An erotic parody of that timeless classic, A Christmas Carol. With more ejaculate.

After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life.In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict.

“Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts.”— Los Angeles TimesEverything Is Going to Be Great, is performer, playwright, comedian, and author Rachel Shukert’s hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. She chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany “adulthood.” Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert’s...

"Bulletins from the front line of the deepest, darkest curmudgeonliness . . . [by] the literary love child of Larry David and Dorothy Parker." —Dani Shapiro, New York Times–bestselling author"Funny, smart, delightfully cranky," Ariel Leve's Sunday Times Magazine (London) column "Cassandra" moves to book form (AJ Jacobs). It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me offers a humorously bleak perspective on life's potential to turn out badly . . . and...

"Kirk Farber has a style very similar to Chuck Palahniuk, with offbeat observations, a view of our world through a slightly distorted lens, and a tone that's … hilarious and tragic at the same time." — Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the RainA touching, almost cinematic, debut novel featuring the eccentric, slightly disturbed, and unique character Sid, who finds himself—among various other darkly comic scenarios—obsessed by the mysterious European postcards tha...

"A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell's cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such insight and wit that the laughter is revelatory, and the tears—and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey—are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves. In a word, wonderful." — Clive Barker"Absolutely hilarious and ...

“This book will make you laugh and cry in public.” —Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth CooperJessica Anya Blau's passionate and poignant debut novel of one girl’s coming of age in 1970s southern California, replete with stoners, hippies, surfers, bitchy girlfriends, first love, first heartbreak, and OPI shortsJamie Green will remember “the summer of naked swim parties” for the rest of her life. It’s the summer...