Dzanc Books

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• ISBN 9781938103575
• 180 Pages •5 x 8"
• $15.95
Compromised Lives of One Sort or Another
05/15/2013
I doubt that anyone would argue that the two novellas of Could You Be With Her Now are not different stories. I mean, “I Can Make It to California Before It’s Time for Dinner” focuses on danger experienced by a mentally challenged fifteen year old, told in his own words. To the contrary, “May-September” omniscient tracks…
• Book: Could You Be With Her Now
• Author: Jen Michalski
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:David S. Atkinson
David S. Atkinson is the author of Bones Buried in the Dirt. His writing has appeared in [PANK], The Rumpus, Grey Sparrow Journal, Interrobang?!, Atticus Review, & others. He spends his non-literary time as a patent attorney in Denver.
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• ISBN 9780982631836
• 145 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $16.95
Us brothers, we knew what it meant to be better than dead.
07/04/2012
But us brothers, we knew what it meant to be better than dead. We knew that when things die they sometimes just then begin to live. It is moments like this within Peter Markus’s We Make Mud that make you read and reread sentences over and over. So simple and so understated, but, in many…
• Book: We Make Mud
• Author: Peter Markus
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:edward j rathke
edward j rathke lives here and there, finds his name in print occasionally, but mostly stares at the walls and waits for stories to fall out. His debut novel, Ash Cinema, was published by KUBOA Press.
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• ISBN 9780982631836
• 145 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $16.95
Something About A Keeper—Peter Markus’s We Make Mud
03/08/2012
When I was a kid, my dad and his brother and his brother’s sons and I would go fishing for trout a lot. We’d go out to a lake in Eastern Washington. We’d catch a lot, throw back a lot. Keep a few to barbecue. We used a lot of charcoal. My dad and his…
• Book: We Make Mud
• Author: Peter Markus
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Joseph Riippi
Joseph Riippi wrote Research: a novel for performance, which is currently in development for full production in Los Angeles and New York in 2012-13. His books include A Cloth House, The Orange Suitcase, and Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!
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• ISBN 9780979312335
• 136 Pages •5.8 x 8.5"
• $13.95
On Peter Markus’s Bob, or Man on Boat
02/07/2012
I’m usually late getting to books, because I have this dramatic assumption that books are responsible for finding you. I might have stolen this idea from the Lester Bangs of Almost Famous rather than the Lester Bangs who I used to want to be. I didn’t like Almost Famous but at the time it came…
• Book: Bob, or Man on Boat
• Author: Peter Markus
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr went to the lowest rated MFA program in the country and can do everything better than Seth Abramson.
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• ISBN 9781936873036
• 186 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $15.95
This is a powerful collection with language that surprises and characters that fascinate.
12/22/2011
“I had him once to hold. I have a stone to hold. From this day forward. We go forward, we watch the road, we listen for the hills. I listen to the stone: there is no singing. Once there was singing; we were singing. We were kneeling and we sang the words we knew. There…
• Book: A Tendency to Be Gone
• Author: Pamela Ryder
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:edward j rathke
edward j rathke lives here and there, finds his name in print occasionally, but mostly stares at the walls and waits for stories to fall out. His debut novel, Ash Cinema, was published by KUBOA Press.
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• ISBN 9780982631829
• 530 Pages •5.7 x 8.7"
• $22.00
Some Conversation With Roy Kesey About Pacazo
12/08/2011
Through college and some few years after, I regularly wrote music reviews. This took me to concerts 2-4 nights a week, and I could rely on receipt of a couple promo CDs each day. Having absorbed that volume of music means that, even now, any record or live show is diluted, watered-down. It takes something…
• Book: Pacazo
• Author: Roy Kesey
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Joseph Riippi
Joseph Riippi wrote Research: a novel for performance, which is currently in development for full production in Los Angeles and New York in 2012-13. His books include A Cloth House, The Orange Suitcase, and Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!
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• ISBN 9780976717768
• 188 Pages •5.4 x 8.3"
• $16.95
"What I am fine means is please stop talking."
09/12/2011
Before I say anything about Kamby Bolongo Mean River, I have to tell you that its author, Robert Lopez, is a friend of mine. I also have to tell you that I edit a journal in which his fiction has appeared several times and will likely appear in the future. In other words, I am…
• Book: Kamby Bolongo Mean River
• Author: Robert Lopez
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Samuel Ligon
Samuel Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve, and Safe in Heaven Dead. He teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and is the editor of Willow Springs and Bark.