**Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceMarrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is perfect for viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance and Pluribus**Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its “original experiences,” has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popu...

Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. Originally published in the novella collection, Fondly, this new edition features a foreword by Brian Evenson."This is a book I first read at a formidable time, in a driftless, listless post-college haze. I've since thought about these characters, this family, consistently in the last ten plus years, recommending Gainesville t...

"A witty and grisly gothic unlike anything I’ve ever read. You should absolutely read this." --Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleA new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to surv...

Volume three, issue three of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal.  Cover by Grażyna Smalej. Fiction by Jonathan Callahan, Justin Hamm, Alex McElroy, Joe Sacksteder, Chelsea Laine Wells, Luke Wiget, D. Harlan Wilson, and Colin Winnette. Poetry by Emily Grace Bernard, Ace Boggess, J. Scott Bugher, Dalton Day, Jason Hardung, Neal Kitterlin, Laura McCullough, Britt Melewski, Zach Mueller, Nina Puro, Jeff Tigchelaar, Marc Vincenz, Charles Harper Webb, and Gabriel Wels...

Volume four, issue one of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal. Cover by Michael McConnell. Fiction by Robert Kloss, Sara Lippmann, Joe Lucido, Ted Pelton, Ryan Ries, Adrian Van Young, Chelsea Laine Wells, and Colin Winnette. Poetry by Taryn Andrews, Ace Boggess, Thea Brown, Flower Conroy, Jim Daniels, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Knar Gavin, Montreux Rotholtz, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Ray Shea, Phillip Gregory Spotswood, Bridget Talone, and Timothy Wojcik. Creative nonfiction by...

A minute-by-minute analysis of Richard Linklater’s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused.Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits.This book uses a close study of Dazed and Confused to tell three interrelated stories of adolescent development: the filmma...

Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts...

“The Job of the Wasp is a madcap mystery, a macabre coming-of-age story and an unearthly fantasy—but it feels like childhood, like the world, like life.” —Daniel Handler, author of We Are Pirates and All The Dirty PartsA new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the He...

"In his astonishing portrait of American violence, Haints Stay, Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. But this isn't a chummy oater penned by the likes of Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. Winnette's frontier feels more Homeric. His knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts. While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards o...