More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our minds and our votes to return to a rational democracy, of, by, and for the people. No o...

**•Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke Awards •The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out"An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. The Postmortal is . . . even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse." — Mark Frauenfelder, Boing BoingJohn Farrell is about to get "The Cure."...

A New York Times Notable Book“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen KingFrom the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired i...

As a celebration of dimwits, lunkheads, bad ideas, and just plain wrongheaded foolishness, dive into the shallow end with Uncle John’s Presents: Book of the Dumb.In every field of human endeavor, there are people, things, and ideas that rank among the best mankind has ever produced—the Book of the Dumb isn't about any of that. This volume from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader teaches us one valuable lesson: never underestimate the power of human stupi...

**Finalist for the Thurber Prize"Amazing." —Amy Schumer**In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral columns, Petri reports that the first Trump administration was as competent as it was uncorrupted, white supremacy has...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR* Aztec Astronauts* Punster Prophets* Apocalyptic Apps* Cantankerous Cryptids* and the Duck KnightFifth annual volume of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series features eighteen lighthearted science fiction and fantasy tales from the masters of the genre.Read about planetary adoptions, secret agent princesses, alien cooking reality shows, rigged elections, magical insurance agents, and much more.

Retracing the churlish antics of our 45th president throughout his unforgettable first year and a quarter in office, Dear F*cking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump takes both a laser scalpel and a rusty chain saw — in equal measure — to Trump's boundless ego, bottomless stupidity, and brazen incompetence. With acid tongue planted firmly in cheek, author Aldous J. Pennyfarthing takes on the president's unsurpassed ignorance, rampant racism, shocking pettiness, ver...

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times."This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity wit...

"A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." — USA TodaySarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-d...

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.This special edition contains selections from the following 2017 editions:The Best American Short Stories edited by Meg WolitzerThe Best American Essays edited by Leslie JamisonThe Best American Mystery Stories edited by John SandfordThe Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Sarah VowellThe Be...

ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, a fvisionairy anthology dreamed up by two Pacific Northwest authors In the aftermath of the presidential inauguration, Bob Brown and Phyllis Irene Radford asked the science fiction writers they know to imagine a post-Trump, post-truth worldALTERNATIVE TRUTHS is about the possibilities of a mad and confusing time," said Brown, who published the book through BCubedPress. "A bombastic billionaire golf-course developer and reality TV-show host has become the most po...

**This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change.“A maelstrom of grief, anger, fear and confusion, with glimmers of gratitude and hope: a comprehensive emotional document of a moment.”—New York Times B...