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An exuberant new collection from the acclaimed author of Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey and How Animals Mate. In Mueller’s latest, the central cycle of stories follows an upwardly mobile family navigating the late ‘60s in west Texas, with an adventurous young boy coming face to face with the era’s newly blurred lines around sex, race and family.
In Disappearing Debutantes, disappearing and ever present “female beginners” come-of-age in fantasy and reality. As children, girls, teens, “new adults,” middle-aged women, and old women, they keep having their debuts and going unnoticed. Erased by gender, time, age, and those they most want to see them, neglected females become strange in hopes of being loved, being listened to, being understood, and being seen.
Bernard Aoust is a film professor at Berkeley, nearing retirement, who finds himself increasingly at odds with modern life. A Frenchman by birth, and an ideological child of May ‘68, Aoust is also obsessed with a long lost silent French film from 1923 and its obscure director, devoting his academic life to the film and banking on a new monograph to salvage his flagging career. After a series of unusual occurrences, the lost film plunges Aoust into an existential crisis. New from The Shortish Project.
A man walks into a bar and over the course of the night realizes everyone there is named Danny…. New from The Shortish Project.
Introducing The Shortish Project
Explore 500+ acclaimed short novels from the past 200 years (with 250 from the last 20 years) (and 50+ from the last year alone).
Ready to join the party? All styles & genres welcome. A new open-door publishing program, in paperback and ebook, available at the Project and booksellers everywhere.
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“A tense and timely love story that probes the disastrous gulf between class and technology” – Ben Marcus
“Endlessly inquisitive… a worthy addition to the canon of messy, strange, and keen women” – Kirkus Reviews
“The Jim Jarmusch of Central Oklahoma zoo-fiction—contemplative and dreamy and in awe of the strange.” – Benjamin Warner
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