"In this fine story collection, the inhabitants of Vaughn, Maine are stalked not by Stephen King horror but by intimate afflictions of blood, accident, and history. Yet their stories are too vivid to be entirely bleak. Maine's woods and rivers, its changing light, are the beautifully rendered constants in a harsh, even malevolent, world."
—Boston Globe

"There's an unnerving, hazy human darkness that Jason Brown explores so well in these stories, all set around a small Maine town full of weary, complicated souls. Often Brown fixates of those just entering adulthood, an age when the twin forces of temptation and regret are most potent."
—Entertainment Weekly (A-)

"Bold and ambitious, World on Fire engages the great issues of the day, mixing the personal with the political, demanding attention be paid, continuing in the American tradition of Whitman, Ginsberg, and Pound. Here is a howl for the twenty-first century."
— Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

"One of the most eloquent recent poetic works to cover the downsides of 'progress' and to cry out for a counterpunch against the manipulations of empire."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Essay lovers take heart. There's a new voice on the fray, and it belongs to a talented young writer. In this collection of on-target analyses of American culture, Daum offers the disapproval of youth, leavened with pithy humor and harsh self-appraisal. . . . An edgy read."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Sam Lipsyte is a wickedly gifted writer. Venus Drive is filled with grimly satisfying fractured insights and harcore humor . . . A collection that represents the emergence of a very strong talent."
—Robert Stone

"Sam Lipsyte can get blood from a stone—rich, red human blood from the stony sterility of contemporary life. His writing is gripping—at least I gripped this book so hard my knuckles turned white."
—Edmund White

The First Hurt
Stories by Rachel Sherman

“Rachel Sherman’s stories are real wonders—brave, dangerous fictions full of heart and wit. She gets to the creepy, despairing, hilarious core of adolescence like few writers I’ve read. This is an amazing debut.”
—Sam Lipsyte

“Rachel Sherman writes stories like splinters: they get under your skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.” —Judy Budnitz

“In this excellent first collection, the human body is a promise of future happiness and a source of present embarrassment. The prose is another matter: polished, poised, sure of itself. It’s a very grown-up way of recording the queasy intimacies, the frighteningly raw perceptions, and the almost cosmic desolation of a suburban adolescence.”
—Benjamin Kunkel

"Tantalizing . . . A memorable tour de force."
—The New York Times Book Review

"A masterpiece. Edward S.t Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts. His wit, his profound intelligence, and his exquisite control of a story that rapidly descends to the lower depths before somehow painfully rising again—all go to distinguish the trilogy as fiction of a truly rare and extraordinary quality."
—Patrick McGrath

Mother's Milk
A Novel by Edward St. Aubyn

"Funny, insightful, and terrifically opinionated."
—Time Out New York

"St. Aubyn is like Gary Indiana and Martin Amis, those masters of black moral comedy whose every sentence bespeaks a first-rate intelligence married to a diabolically acid sense of humor."
—Patrick McGrath

"Scathing, hilarious, and glorious."
—The New York Times

“Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of wise outrage.”
—Arthur Miller

“A powerful and deeply disturbing portrait of a flawed, self-destructive, and compulsively fascinating figure.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)