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“Shoplifting From Uranus” is the story of Tao Lin 964, a cybernetic sex slave who is thrown out into the world of 2025 without a memory. Wandering around New New Jersey, 964 is befriended by another memory-wiped sex slave who is part of a g… more

A collection of the crappiest poems ever written in the history of mankind and dust bunnies as well, probably.If you’re depressed, bored, hate poetry, in a mental institution, or otherwise extremely unhappy with your life, these poems may b… more

Actual Length: 149 pages on paper.ABOUT:People who like the works of Miranda July, Charles Bukowski, Henry Rollins, and Tao Lin will find a warm friend and some comfort in this book.Doesn’t the man in the cover look so sad?I just want to hu… more

Sam Pink’s Rontel, the first novel from innovative publisher Electric Literature, is a love letter to Chicago that’s full of unrequited affection, brimming with contempt and admiration, gratitude and spite. Subversive and shamelessly honest… more

“Mopping From Tao Lin” follows three days in the lives of friends Ryan Adams, Kristen Stewart and Joan Didion as they are brought together by an escalating obsession with cult internet personality Tao Lin.

In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has… more

Bizarro humorist Bradley Sands returns with one of the strangest, most hilarious collections of the year.In Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, the pope gets sued, a headless man falls in love with a bowl of rice, and architects dismantle the earth. … more

“Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.”—Miranda July,… more

“The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In Moth Moon, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after… more

These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and f… more

In his introduction for this issue, Dennis Johnson, Melville House’s Co-Founder and Co-Publisher, writes that while the Barthelme’s weren’t for everyone, that’s what made interesting and genuine. There work, and especially this story, asks,… more