What if you believed that "for the price of a cup of coffee you could save a child's life?"What if your life closely resmbled the life of a caged budgie bird?What if the most real part of your life were the words in books?Would you let your world shatter?

Marshall Hollenzer is Driving

Literature & Fiction

Egerton, Owen

Contemporary

iUniverse

This book is built to start fires. Whether you’re an aspiring writer just starting out or a seasoned author working to complete your next novel, This Word Now is a box of matches and a stack of kindling. Through a series of essays and exercises, acclaimed writers and instructors Jodi and Owen Egerton guide you through techniques for cultivating creativity, building narratives, and energizing your writing with passion and play. Filled with insight, humor, and anecdotes from the writing life, this book is the perfect companion for writers looking to sharpen their craft.

This Word Now

Reference

Egerton, Jodi

Words, Language & Grammar

Write Good Books

[i]Lazarus Dying[/i]: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. [i]The Fecalist[/i]: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. [i]Christmas[/i]: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth. Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton. Egerton, a rising star in Austin's growing literary scene, has a gift for vibrant prose and unforgettable characters. Whether exploring the strange world of faith or exposing the absurdities of contemporary Bohemia, Egerton's fiction is dark, funny and packed with the unexpected. His stories thematically complement each other, and as a whole, serve as a poignant, often hilarious, meditation on death. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonders of life knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be panhandling for your soul. It will appeal to the same smart, urban crowd who loves Neal Pollack now or the Bret Easton Ellis of 20 years ago.

How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories

Humor & Satire

Dalton Pub

The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement. The titular hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a quirky middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him.Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, humor, and dangers within spirituality.

The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God

When Oliver Bonds, a revered religious studies professor at the University of Texas, loses his toddler son and undergoes intense legal scrutiny over his involvement, grief engulfs him completely. His life is upended; Oliver loses his wife, home, and faith. Three years after his son's death, Oliver lives in a shack without electricity and frequents the soup kitchen where he used to volunteer. It's only when he's befriended by Lyle, a con artist with a passion for theories of Hollow Earth, that Oliver begins to reengage with the world. Oliver too becomes convinced that the inside of the planet might contain a different realm. Desperate to find a place where he can escape his past, Oliver chases after the most unlikely of miracles. With unforgettable characters, wild imagery, and dark humor, Hollow explores the depths of doubt and hope, stretching past grief and into the space where we truly begin to heal.

Hollow: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Tantor Audio

The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him. Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.

The Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God

Dramas & Plays

Catapult

Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. .Now the asylum is being shut down. Everyone Says That at the End of the World traces the adventures of a ghost-haunted slacker couple expecting their first child, an outrageously arrogant television actor seeking redemption and a prophetic hermit crab on a cross-country quest as they struggle to survive the final four days of life on Earth. Inter-dimensional time travelers, Jesus clones, and prosthetic limbs all play a role in the catastrophic events leading to the planet’s end. Combining humor, philosophical inquiry and unforgettable characters, Egerton leads us through the most bizarre apocalypse ever put to paper.

Everyone Says That at the End of the World

In this devilishly clever collection of short fiction, renowned humorist Owen Egerton leads us on a wildly surprising, darkly comic, and often heart-wrenching ride into the terrible beauty of life's end. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonder of life, knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be panhandling for your soul.

How Best To Avoid Dying: Stories

We Screwed Up So You Don’t Have To So the kid’s butt is redder than a baboon’s and he’s screaming like a crazed hockey fan. What to do? Powder or butt paste? Who can a new father ask? Relax: The guys at DadLabs have you covered. Full of hilarious and practical information inspired by their award-winning Web site, DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood will teach you: • Why sex is overrated (and other lies new fathers tell themselves) • The incredibly disgusting varieties of baby poop • Why washing bottles will not make your balls fall off • Essential OB/GYN office survival tips • Things you should never ever say during labor • Why other parents’ children are inferior to yours • And much, much more! Full of guy-friendly, earthy, sometimes off-color, but always practical advice, DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood proves that being a guy with a sense of humor and being a skillful parent are not mutually exclusive.

DadLabs (TM) Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One

Lanier, Troy

Powell, Brad

Nichols, Clay

Quirk Books

An NPR Best Book of 2017 "With the kind of grace not usually seen in accessible modern fiction, Egerton also invokes many other things with this central metaphor . . . Ollie's voice is one of the most believable I've encountered this year, sustained by honesty, realism, and compassion. In his exile, Ollie has taken stock. His reckoning with the past creates the story's exquisite tension and makes the final scene bloom with tenderness . . . The core of Hollow is anything but." ―NPR When Oliver Bonds, a revered religious studies professor at the University of Texas, loses his toddler son and undergoes intense legal scrutiny over his involvement, grief engulfs him completely. His life is upended; Oliver loses his wife, home, and faith. Three years after his son's death, Oliver lives in a shack without electricity and frequents the soup kitchen where he used to volunteer. It's only when befriended by Lyle, a con artist with a passion for theories of Hollow Earth, that Oliver begins to reengage with the world. Oliver too becomes convinced that the inside of the planet might contain a different realm. Desperate to find a place where he can escape his past, Oliver chases after the most unlikely of miracles. With unforgettable characters, wild imagery, and dark humor, Hollow explores the depths of doubt and hope, stretching past grief and into the space where we truly begin to heal.

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Marshall Hollenzer is Driving

This Word Now

How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories

The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God

Hollow: A Novel

The Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God

Everyone Says That at the End of the World

How Best To Avoid Dying: Stories

DadLabs (TM) Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One

Hollow: A Novel